User:Kku/Wikipedia:WikiProject Annelids

"witty worm quote"

Stephen Jay Gould, 1988

The aim of this WikiProject is to set out broad suggestions about how to organize data in the articles relating to annelids. We also hope to encourage the development of important stubs and articles following these suggestions. In general, these are only suggestions, and you shouldn't feel obliged to follow them.

Related WikiProjects
This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life


 * WikiProject Science
 * WikiProject Biology
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Animals
 * WikiProject Annelids


 * Portal:Biology

Descendants of this project include:

Articles
Annelid articles can be on any level that makes sense in context. Most will be about particular taxa. For example:


 * Regnum:  Animalia
 * Clade: 	Platytrochozoa
 * Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
 * Phylum: Annelida
 * Subphylum:  (if applicable)
 * Class: 
 * Order:
 * Family:
 * Genus: xx
 * Species: xx

Other levels of taxonomy may be added if necessary : subclass, infraclass, suborder, infraorder, superfamily, subfamily, etc.

In many cases, it makes sense to combine several taxonomic levels in a single article. ...

Some large families, such as the xxx, will need to be broken down at some stage because of the number of species. For this, lists of species by subfamily may be created. ...

It may be useful to start with a high-level article, such as a family article, and then split off genus and/or species articles as the material builds.

If possible, create links to articles on the levels immediately higher and lower. An article on a genus such as Lumbricus should link back to the family Lumbricidae and order Haplotaxida, and down to species articles where they exist. Considering the vast number of species in some genera (or genera in some families, etc.), this may not always be possible, but should be tried as often as possible.

Overview of the classification of annelids

 * Annelids
 * Polychaetes
 * Clitellates
 * Oligochaetes
 * Hirudinea
 * Branchiobdellida
 * Machaeridia †
 * Echiura

For more information on classification, see annelid classification and List of annelid families.

Criteria for inclusion
At what level is it worth having a separate Wikipedia article for a particular annelid? Any level you like. If we write individual articles for all one million-odd described species, we will be at it for a long time! The simplest (and probably best) rule is to have no rule: if you have the time and energy to write up some particularly obscure subspecies that most people have never even heard of, go to it!

As a general guideline though, combine several species or subspecies into a single article when there isn't enough text to make more than short, unsatisfying stubs otherwise. If the article grows large enough to deserve splitting, that can always be done later.

Also, it is preferable to start at a higher taxonomic level and work our way down to particular species than the reverse.

What about extinct annelids? At the very least, we should include annelids that have become extinct within historical times: within the last 5000 years or so. Most extinct annelids will be much older however, but there seems to be no obvious reason to exclude any of them.

Names and titles
In cases where common names are well-known and reasonably unique, they should be used for article titles. Scientific names should be used otherwise. Note the following guidelines in using scientific names:


 * Names of genera are always italicized and capitalized&mdash; Lumbricus, Eisenia, Holoscolex.
 * Specific epithets are always italicized and preceded by the name of the genus or an abbreviation of it&mdash; ...
 * Names of higher taxa are capitalized but not italicized&mdash; Glossoscolecidae, Eudrilidae, Oligochaeta.

Not all species need have separate articles. The simplest (and probably best) rule is to have no rule: if you have the time and energy to write up some particularly obscure subspecies that most people have never even heard of, go for it! As a general guideline, though, it's best to combine separate species into a single entry whenever it seems likely that there won't be enough text to make more than a short, unsatisfying stub otherwise. If the entry grows large enough to deserve splitting, that can always be done later.

A useful heuristic is to create articles in a "downwards" order, that is, family articles first, then genera, then species. If you find that information is getting thin, or the family/genus is really small, just leave the species info inline in the family or genus article, don't try to force it down any further.

Taxonomy and references
This is likely to be the single most difficult part of the project. Not only does annelid taxonomy vary significantly from one authority to another, but it is in a state of constant change. There is no single authority to rely on; no one list can claim to be the list.

Article contents
The following items are desirable for articles of all levels, although the detail will vary depending on several factors. These items do not need to be separated into distinct sections; text should flow in continuous prose so far as possible. The order this information is included is also relatively unimportant, although the order listed is generally preferred.
 * Taxobox – See Template:Taxobox/doc for full details on constructing a taxobox.
 * Description – A brief overview of the animal's appearance, including typical sizes. How does it differ from related taxa, or other taxa with which it could be confused?
 * Distribution – Where does it live, geographically?
 * Ecology / behaviour – What habitats does it inhabit? What does it eat? What eats it? What other taxa does it interact with (symbioses, competitors, parasites, etc.)?
 * Importance to man, if any
 * Taxonomic history – When was the taxon first described, and by whom? How is classified now?

Assessment statistics
Note: the table below only shows articles tagged with the WikiProject Annelids template, so excludes those tagged as belonging to descendant wikiprojects.

New articles

 * New Annelid articles created in the last 14 days, compiled by User:AlexNewArtBot (Log, Rules)

To do
'''Annelids requested articles now have their own page: WikiProject Annelids/Article requests. Please put them there.'''

Photo requests can be made by adding  in the assessment template or using.

Good Articles lacking focal image
The following articles have been assessed as Good Articles, but lack illustrations of the subject. If you can find, or create, a suitably licensed illustration or photograph, please upload to Commons and add to the article(s) to make them even better.
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Other tasks

 * You may want to check existing articles to see if they are up to Wikipedia standards. If you find them dissatisfying, you can modify them yourself or add them to one of the lists above. It would be good if we could bring all the articles about orders up to a good level, and then work down. In this way, we would have a good basis to improve family, genus and eventually species-related articles.
 * If you are feeling very brave, you may want to improve taxonomical lists such as (this is far from being a comprehensive list):
 * 
 * 
 * You can also browse the taxoboxes of articles concerning groups that you like, and create articles when you find a red link (see for example the taxobox on the article). Don't forget to add the appropriate stub template (see below). Many classifications may be found on specific pages, such as :  or  for example.
 * You can also help categorise the articles sensibly and consistently.

Participants
Please consider adding a few words about your areas of expertise/interest (if any) after your username.


 * kku – Mainly general.

Stub templates
Remember to mark up stubs with the appropriate template. Where specific templates do not exist (e.g. Merostomata, Pycnogonida, etc.), use arthropod-stub. Otherwise, see below.

Talk pages and grading scheme
Please place WikiProject Arthropods at the top of an article's talk page so articles can be assessed. What this template does:
 * 1) It will help to lead new editors to this project.
 * 2) If complete with quality and importance grading (see Article Classification and grading scheme), it helps us to stay on top of the huge number of arthropod-related articles.

Categories
Please make sure to add articles to the appropriate categories among the ones listed at Category:Arthropods. If there are any categories that you think should be created, please request them here or on the talk page.

In some cases, there might be more appropriate ways to group articles than categories, such as lists or article series boxes. For more information, see Categories, lists, and series boxes.

Userbox
Userbox enthusiasts may want to put this one on their user page: User WikiProject Arthropods to show that they are members of this WikiProject.

Award
Know a user that has done tremendous work on Arthropod-related articles? Give them this barnstar! Just add... to the user's talk page.

Images
To find suitable images for articles, the first place to start is Category:Annelida on WikiCommons, where you can search or browse by category.

CC licensed publications
Note:"Open Access" does not always mean "free to use". Media licensed "CC-BY" can be used without restriction, while "CC-BY-NC" or -ND (non-commerical or non-derivative) cannot be used on Wikipedia. (See Commons Licensing for more details)

All images and text published in these journals are free to use on Wikipedia when authors are attributed, unless otherwise noted.
 * BMC Evolutionary Biology
 * European Journal of Taxonomy
 * Pensoft Publishers
 * ZooKeys
 * International Journal of Myriapodology (volumes 1-3 are not free)
 * Zoosystematics and Evolution
 * Biodiversity Data Journal
 * PLOS One
 * PeerJ
 * Zoological Letters
 * Zoological Studies
 * Hindawi Publishing Corporation (Open Access statement)
 * Advances in Biology
 * Advances in Zoology
 * International Journal of Biodiversity
 * International Journal of Ecology
 * International Journal of Zoology
 * Journal of Animals
 * Journal of Marine Biology

The following journals may have free CC-licensed publications (verify for each article)
 * Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
 * Frontiers in Zoology
 * Scientific Reports (Open Access Policy)
 * Royal Society Open Science

Taxonomy
The pages below provide fairly up-do date information on species names and classification, but it's a good idea to verify when the data was last updated and verified.
 * Catalogue of Life
 * World Register of Marine Species

Cladograms can be requested for creation here.

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. automatically to references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Annelids

 Annelids