User:Giantflightlessbirds/Boilerplate wiki code

For Critter of the Week pages

 * for a spaced en dash, and for — and –
 * "Setting dates and language to NZ: see MOS:TIES" in edit comment. This lets you use macrons on Māori loanwords.
 * Better photos. In the taxobox, ideally, a lithograph or diagram from an old publication, like the Erebus and Terror expeditions. In the text some photos of male, female, detail of nest, close-up of distinguishing characteristics etc.
 * Status: options are NU, Rel, R, D, VU, NE, NC, NT, DD. See the extinct graphic for an example of what displays. Status_system: NZTCS (NZ Threat Classification System). Status_ref: link to the species in the NZTCS database at https://nztcs.org.nz/
 * Can use status2, status2_system, status2_ref
 * Wiklink name of species describer if possible
 * at start if page name is a Latin name; the Speciesbox template should handle this automatically
 * To make an italic species title in the taxobox, just omit the name parameter (unless of course the name parameter is being used for a vernacular name)
 * Hatnote to similar/unrelated names
 * Convert all units: e.g.  gives "12.34 metres (40 ft 6 in)" (and see Help:Convert for lots of options)
 * for See:
 * Sections: Taxonomy/Description/Ecology/Life history/Distribution and habitat/Conservation
 * External video if any
 * with Wikidata Q number, to replace the Wikispecies link
 * or
 * | subdivision_ranks = Subspecies | subdivision =   *  S. a. albifacies   *  S. a. rufifacies 
 * Good categories; check to see if categories are hierarchical.
 * Redirecting: . Templates:
 * Syntax for Māori usage with a footnote:
 * transliterates and italicises Māori
 * and similar for ISBN
 * has a new parameter for a global quality rating
 * transliterates and italicises Māori
 * and similar for ISBN
 * has a new parameter for a global quality rating

Standard text proposing a move contra IOC
I'm proposing to move this species to New Zealand dabchick. "New Zealand grebe" is not the name ever used for this endemic New Zealand bird by New Zealanders. Nor is it the predominant name used in reliable sources. The official OSNZ Checklist uses "New Zealand dabchick", as does the standard NZ field guide and all popular NZ bird guides I could find. The IOC World Bird List renamed it for consistency with other grebes, but the IOC explicitly states that if their choice is "contrary to long-established and widespread usage, the rule may be modified or not applied." And in the WikiProject Birds naming conventions: "Wikipedia article titles may diverge from the IOC list when the most common name in reliable sources is different from the IOC name." I think NZ checklist usage should prevail here: the article should be moved and "New Zealand dabchick" should be noted as an alternative form sometimes used overseas but never in NZ. Thoughts? If no objections, I'll move it.

Standard text asking for permission to use photos
I work with Nicola Toki and Jesse Mulligan supporting the Critter of the Week radio show; my job is to make sure the Wikipedia page is updated for each critter. I'm currently working on the Wikipedia page for XXXXXXXXX, and there's a real shortage of good photos. I wonder if you would consider donating your photo so it could be one of the official images of this species on Wikipedia? To go on Wikipedia a photo has to be freely reproducible by anyone, not copyrighted. In practice this means old photos that are out of copyright, or ones released under a Creative Commons license. A Creative Commons photo (technically a CC-BY-4.0 license, if you’re familiar with Creative Commons) can be used freely by anyone without asking permission first, as long as the photographer is credited at all times. CC-BY is a good license for images that could be used by journalists, schoolkids, or community groups, as they don’t have to go through the process of tracking down and emailing the creator. Photos in Wikipedia are hosted by the site Wikimedia Commons; anyone clicking on a photo sees the full licensing and author details. If you wanted to keep high-resolution versions of photos for licensing and publication you could release screen-resolution versions, about 800 pixels wide, which will look fine in Wikipedia but not be high enough quality for a magazine or book. If you're OK with that – and of course there's no pressure – let me know how you would like to release any photos, and I'll add them to the page.

Any DOC photos that are Crown Copyright are already available under this kind of license.

To remember

 * (one decimal place);
 * gives ;  gives
 * to tag text,  to show Māori:
 * to make an author's name a wikilink in a citation
 * for adding a superscript page range after the ref tag, with pop-up note when hovered. Use p= for a single page.
 * Use a ping to make sure someone gets an alert when their name's mentioned:
 * No need to pipe the wikilink if the title's capitalised but the link isn't:  does nothing!   (and any other suffix text) creates a fully-linked word (Professors) but apostrophes only partly-link (Professor's). Hyphens and capital letters also create a partial link (Professor-like, ProfessorMatic 2000).
 * Putting the pipe at the end turns  into Jerusalem. This trick also trims namespaces like User and Wikipedia.
 * A robot will insert the required non-breaking space between a measure and its unit, and will fix out-of-heirarchy headings.
 * The Citation template has a field, Quote, to add quoted text to the reference.
 * DOC text for : All DOC images are under Crown Copyright, and can be reused  under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. Please credit "Department of Conservation" or "Department of Conservation (NZ)" when reusing.
 * Useful template for listing users:
 * Template Credit line in Wikimedia Commons . WC/TITLE for "other" links to the work in Commons. CC-BY-4.0 is the format for License.
 * and  in Commons
 * for NZ Freedom of Panorama in Commons
 * Template for an interwiki link:
 * Making age show up correctly on a birthday (placement of df):
 * for material that was PD in NZ in 1996. Pre-1926 stuff (and rolling) is .   for photos of NZ art that was public domain in 1996.
 * for daily views in Talk page
 * See Help:Gallery tag for more.
 * to reorder species names?
 * Template:Refideas
 * Template:VEFriendly to make a project page editable with VisualEditor
 * In Commons: Template:Personality RIghts (applicable in NZ) and Template:Consent (useful if a private author photograph for example).
 * may be used to format bibliography entries; for single-author lists, use to avoid repeating the author's name.
 * may be used to format bibliography entries; for single-author lists, use to avoid repeating the author's name.