User:Noym/scratch

Standards: Naming conventions Insect names and titles Disambiguration pages

Procedure: Disambiguation pages with links

Cheat sheets: Template:Redirect Global Lepidoptera Names Index funet.fi tolweb.org

General: Articles for deletion Requested moves

About me

 * First edit: 2011-02-14
 * Edits: 1700+ article, 2200+ total
 * Member of: WikiProject Disambiguation, WikiProject Lepidoptera

Mission
I'm wikignoming around the butterfly articles:
 * Lepidoptera taxonomy is still evolving. Many articles give obsolete names for groups of butterflies or misrepresent their current rank and position. I'm moving and restructuring articles to bring our taxon tree into the twenty-first century.
 * Many early butterfly articles were created using vernacular names instead of scientific names as headwords. This has turned out to be unsustainable. Many species have more than one vernacular name. Many vernacular names are used for more than one species; a vernacular name commonly used to refer to one genus in the US can refer to the entire containing subfamily in the UK and to a species in an unrelated other tribe in Australia. Many common names are used to refer to three or four mutually disjoint taxa; some to five or more. As a result of this mess many articles have patently useless names and quite a few links go to the wrong article. I'm moving articles to scientific names, setting up redirects for lesser known vernacular names, and writing disambiguation pages as needed to try and straighten this out.
 * While I'm at it, I'm also updating articles to conform to a number of basic formatting conventions.
 * Making sure readers can find the species they are looking for if all they have is a common name and perhaps a vague geographic location involves editing a lot of disambiguation pages. I'm wikignoming around these too: I'm trying to make sure that pages follow established formatting guidelines, make sure that links go to the articles proper instead of to the dabs, and so on. If I edit an article that has nothing to do with butterflies it's usually because I'm cleaning up a dab.

Apaturinae
see here: User:Noym/Apaturinae

Lists to format

 * Anthocharini
 * Euchloe
 * Pieridae
 * Pierinae

Unsorted

 * Curetis: sunbeam, sunbeams
 * Doleschallia bisaltide: leafwing, leafwings
 * Feniseca tarquinius: harvester, harvesters
 * Heliophorus: sapphire sapphire, sapphires
 * Melitaeini: fritillary fritillary, fritillaries, checkerspot, checkerspots, crescent, crescents, crescentspot, crescentspots
 * Ornithoptera, Trogonoptera, Troides: birdwing, birdwings

Things to do beyond being anal about taxon names:
 * Fri: Siren (disambiguation)
 * Sat: Arabic?
 * Wed: Unusual software bugs my ass


 * clean up Wanderer, disambiguation page from hell
 * clean up Vagrant?
 * clean up Lemma (linguistics)?
 * Copper (film)
 * Move Swallowtail to Swallowtail (disambiguation), Swallowtail butterfly to Swallowtail?
 * Useless redirects with no incoming links that will never be typed or looked for by anyone; get these taken behind the barn at some point: Browns Store, Browns (department store), Copper Butterfly, Harvester (butterfly), Harvester (Forestry), Sunbeam Car Company, Yellow (2006 film), Yellow (film)