User:ThaddeusB/PAC template

This is a template used to guide the creation of prehistorical animal genus stubs. Only the text in the box will be in the actual article, the rest is inline comments to aid humans reading this. Fields filled in by the bot are indicated by (italics); the rest of the text is literal. Bold text is always added, regular text is conditional on there being data to fill it in with.

The classification data will be retrieved from paleodb.org. If they have age range data there, that will be used. Otherwise Sepkoski's data will be used from strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/. I need a key to the abbreviations and a guideline on how I should fill in the start + stop dates when using Sepkoski's data.

Genus Authority will be as reported by paleodb.

The common name text will only be filled if one exists in paleodb (which is rare). Extant genus (rare) will link to extant taxon and leave out the word prehistoric. Higher order common name will be based on a human generated list - the bot will fill it in based on the first order found in the db (usually class or subclass). Likewise higher order text is a short human generated blurb describing the general characteristics of the order mentioned. I need both of these lists generated.

The first line is just a text version of the period range in the infobox. The second part is ecological data taken from paleodb when available. This data is usually inherited from a higher taxa, but will be ignored (i.e. left off) if the taxa is above the class level.

The first line is based on the information in paleodb. When there are multiple credits (i.e. someone other than the first identifier assigned it to the proper taxa) these credits will be mentioned as part of the (higher taxa assignment data). (year) will be linked to the corresponding XXXX in paleontology article. I need a list of common scientists & their Wikipedia articles.

If data is available on paleodb about fossil compositions and/or sizes this data will be added to the article.

If paleodb lists an species they will be added to the article.

Human generated see also list based on higher order. I need this generated.

The reference need formatted properly, obviously. Portal list, category, & stub tag will be human generated based on a higher order. These need generated.