User:Giantflightlessbirds/pages to work on

NZ Wikipedian at Large projects

 * Work out how to fix DOC's TSC system with NessieVL: https://www.nztcs.org.nz/#/home
 * Raukumara tusked weta
 * 1080 usage in New Zealand and Sodium fluoroacetate articles
 * Myrtle rust, brown marmorated stink bug
 * New Zealand Arthropod Collection, New Zealand Geographic, Dodd-Walls Centre
 * Joan Dingley: photo at Landcare? News
 * Waitahuna Gully needs creating. References: 1, 2, 3, 4, Waitahuna Memories by Eric Skinner
 * SL

Whanganui Regional Museum
WRM newspaper articles of use:


 * Resolution to start museum and purchase Drew's collection for £600 (24 Jan 1890)
 * Borough Council allowing Drew to display fish specimens in an empty room (14 May 1890)
 * James Hector in town valuing Drew's collection (23 April 1892)
 * Hector's valuation of £1200 (17 May 1892)
 * More detail on valuation, budget for new museum (11 June 1892)
 * Officers appointed (23 July 1892)
 * £200 government grant, prisoners to be used to level site (2 Feb 1893)
 * Arthur and Abram to build for £535, to finish in May (24 Feb 1893)
 * Construction began 4 April (13 April 1893)
 * Description of building in progress: 240 sq ft of displays (13 May 1893)
 * Building nearly completed, painted cream and red (14 June 1893)
 * Tender for glass cases, G Anderson, £106 accepted (1 Aug 1893)
 * Fundraising “pop” concerts being held in new building (11 Aug 1893)
 * Description of cases, arrangement as Drew was busy filling them (13 Jan 1894)
 * Opening to be in May (31 March 1894)
 * More detailed description of displays shortly before opening (4 April 1894)
 * Opening postponed to October because of wintry weather (17 April 1894)
 * Postponed again as grounds and approach made ready by prisoners (29 Sept 1894)
 * Preview opening to visitors 17 Oct, official opening next year (15 Oct 1894)
 * Overview of financial history and delayed opening (29 March 1895)

NZ reptiles

 * Chevron skink: could add Hardy reference, maybe initial description, move to correct capitalisation, add DOC 2002 status and changes
 * Macgregor's Skink: Fix the article name (!), and add more info from Jewell
 * Sort out the list of NZ Oligosoma species so everything's included, not just the Reptile Database entries. See diff.


 * Add info on Open Bay Islands leech, skink, gecko based on Colin's blog post.What does a good reptile page look like? The Solomon Islands skink is one, as is tuatara. See WP:Wikiproject Amphibians and Reptiles, and compare with the pages for the UK reptile species Western green lizard, sand lizard, Podarcis muralis.
 * Common name rather than Latin name, as this is more likely to be stable? No, common names are various and disputed in NZ, except for really well-known species like tuatara.
 * Taxobox: good close-up mugshot, conservation status using NZ TCS (Hitchmough ref), classification, binomial (w linked authority name), nice range map, synonyms w ref(s).
 * Nomenclature, if there are common or Māori names
 * Taxonomy (covers etymology, includes taxonomic history)
 * Description (including how to tell them apart form similar species) including subspecies
 * Biology (subheadings ecology, behaviour, reproduction or just cover topics)
 * Distribution and habitat (important; also why distribution maps will be important)
 * Conservation
 * Gallery, if needed
 * See also: List of reptiles of NZ
 * References
 * Further reading: general books/papers not cited?
 * External links: Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies (as bulleted list), Critter of the Week appearance, other external links relating to NZ reptiles?

Misc

 * Fix nay-saying references to parea as a separate species; it's long-since been recognised by IOC.
 * Go through the NZ pages and replace the references from Terra Nature with something more accurate and up to date
 * Diloma aethiops needs a general revision (thx Ana Claasen)
 * Moa: needs a general update wth test papers and Berentson's book
 * Shags need genera revision using 2014 Nic Rawlence sent 3 March
 * Create page for Fleming Award for Royal Society of New Zealand
 * New Zealand rockwren: rename article and check for other renamed bird articles at variance with OSNZ checklist
 * Flightless bird: add missing ones from list, including Long-billed wren (New Zealand), Rewrite article with sensible divisions and Livezey refs
 * Late Quaternary prehistoric birds list: check links
 * Poukai: chase up actual references and quote stories; a useful blog post.
 * Auckland merganser: update with new Tennyson article
 * Grey warbler: sort out the silly name list and flesh out article
 * List of birds of New Zealand Sort out the moa species listing
 * Dinornis and other genera, and each species listing, updating cladogram, link to latest publications, supply photograph from our collections. Dinornis novaezealandiae could use a better photo! References to use: NZ Birds Online, NZ's Extinct Birds, Perry et al. 2014, Baker et al. 2104, Worthy and Scofield 2012, Huynen et al 2010, Rawlence et al 2009. There are lots of references to Brands' Taxonomicon, which seems to be a broken link, and to Grzimek (2003) which is now out of date. Better to add refs to Tennyson at least. There's also boilerplate on each species (about flight etc) which doesn't need mentioning.
 * Adding pics – and putting correct species names – from Journey of the HMS Erebus and Terror, especially dolphin skulls
 * List of recently extinct birds
 * Hadopyrgus (create), using Climo 1974 article, and linking to Hadopyrgus ngataana
 * Greta Stevenson, especially seeing if there's a way to use the (public domain!) photograph on Turnbull's site [No, won't work in US Commons]
 * Philadelphia Wireman article, showing how improvements could be made. Approach gallery and ask for a single photo that can be added to the commons. A Google Image search brings up pages of photos, most with no attribution. There's an upcoming monograph. Much of the basic information on various pages is contradictory (who found the works, when, even the sex of the artist). Would be worth adopting as a project and demo for GLAM meetings.
 * Mecodema punctellum, getting the supporting documents from the Wikispecies entry. [Cannot take the illustration from the Britton 1948 paper by Olive Florence Tassart, because she died in 1953, so won't be out of copyright in the US until 2023.]
 * The list of River Road settlements
 * finding a photo in Flickr, DIgitalNZ, or the Commons for each
 * adding a map with lat/long
 * checking iwi affiliation cf: of the iwi Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi
 * making the distance in km convert to miles
 * Move to macron version of name where appropriate and check what links there
 * inserting the Te Ara reference and Whanganui River template
 * checking marae and iwi on Maori Maps site, fixing the URLs so they're of the form http://www.maorimaps.com/full_marae/koriniti-otukopiri
 * add Elsdon Best ref where appropriate
 * adding name change info and population figures from Walton (1994)
 * Notes from Chapple and Veitch where appropriate.
 * noting useful references in David Young book with page numbers