User talk:Kevm17

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Articles about species
Hi Kevin,

Welcome to Wikipedia!

A few hints on writing Wikipedia articles on species.

1. The definitive article is not used in front of a binomial, so not “the Passer domesticus feeds on ....” but Passer domesticus feeds on”.

2. Binomials and generic, i.e. genus names, should be italicised.

3. You go not have to use American spellings, if you are Australian use Australian English unless you are writing about a North American person or company.

4. Once you have named the species in a section you may use an abbreviated version of the genus name; e.g. “the house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is generally replaced by the Eurasian tree sparrow (P. montanus) as the urban sparrow in much of eastern Asia”. You can also use pronouns to vary the prose.

I have edited the pufferfish article, I hope it makes it flow better.

Quetzal1964 (talk) 14:25, 17 May 2021 (UTC)

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Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 20:40, 19 January 2022 (UTC)