User talk:Quetzal1964/Archive 1

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 * Hi, thanks for your octopus article. I've tweaked it a bit, you might want to look at Eledone moschata to see if there is anything more you can do to improve your article. In-line references are good, but not compulsory.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  16:24, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

Jim

Thanks for all your help with the Curled Octopus article. I saw in the NBN Gateway that Curled Octopus was the commonest Octopus in Scottish waters and was surprised that there was no wikipedia article on this species. I then decided to add my own, although my knowledge of Octopii is limited. I have added some new information today.

DavidQuetzal1964 (talk) 20:46, 23 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I know nothing about cephalopods, but I've been around a long time, so I can do the formatting and such-like. I've move one of your refs in-line, you might want to do the same with the others. Try to vary your wording a bit more from the original texts, I know it's not intended, but too-close paraphrasing risks copyright infringement.  Jimfbleak -  talk to me?  07:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

I was speaking to a colleague today whose brother is a lobster and crab fisherman in Fife and in his experience this species is a significant pain, he hardly ever sees them as they exit the creels before they are raised but when they eat three lobsters from a single creel that's a big loss. I can't think of anyway of including that anectdotal information in the article but I found some science to back it up.

Wasps
Hello Quetzal1964, I noticed your new articles pop up in the "new pages" list lately and just wanted to say: keep up the good work! You are doing a great job. Glad to see someone else working on insect articles. Ruigeroeland (talk) 09:18, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, enjoying this so will continue.Quetzal1964 18:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)

Dipogon (Plant)
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Cryptocheilus bicolor ... spooky
When I tried to ID this morning's photo, the species page didn't exist, but when I came back this evening, you'd created it! Thanks. --99of9 (talk) 12:40, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

Dipogon
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SIA project!
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Priocnemis coriacea
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Wikipedian in Residence at the National Library of Scotland
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October 2013
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 * Given the quality of this article I believe it is no longer necessary for you to submit your drafts to the Articles for Creation process, you could rather move them directly into mainspace when they are ready. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:43, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon, May 2015
Hey there! As a Wikipedian in Scotland I thought you might be interested in the Scottish Fairground Culture editathon taking place on 7 May at the Riverside Museum - drop me a line if you'd like to know more, or if you'd be interested in taking part remotely! Lirazelf (talk) 12:15, 8 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh dear, linkfail! Here's the correct one... Scottish Fairground Culture Editathon Lirazelf (talk) 09:55, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

A page you started (Delta dimidiatipenne) has been reviewed!
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Spider articles
Nice article on Xerolycosa nemoralis. We need more spider editors, so keep going! Just to point out that as per WP:SECONDARY, where possible we should use secondary sources, especially for taxonomic matters, so authorities and synonyms are best referenced to the World Spider Catalog, which is the accepted international source of spider taxonomy. The project page, WP:SPIDERS, has links to useful information, although the project is not very active at present. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:14, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

Taxonomy templates
Hi, in taxonomy templates (i.e. "Template:Taxonomy/..." pages), there's no formatting in the fields. Have a look at Template:Taxonomy/Trochosa as I fixed it. (It's also now used in the article Trochosa.) Ideally also include a reference to the World Spider Catalog both in the article and the template; see e.g. Template:Taxonomy/Gelanor. The automatic taxobox system is quite complicated; there's an introduction at Template:Automatic_taxobox/doc/intro, but I'm always happy to help or advise if you leave a note on my talk page. Peter coxhead (talk) 09:25, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

Nice article; synonyms from WSC
Nice start article at Cheiracanthium erraticum!

Unfortunately the World Spider Catalog does not directly list synonyms, as is explained at WikiProject Spiders/Style guide (there really needs to be an index to the project's information!). In this specific case:
 * The line "Clubiona nutrix Hahn, 1831a: 7, f. 98 (mf, misidentified)" shows that this is not a synonym but a misidentification.
 * The lines "Clubiona erratica Walckenaer, 1805: 43" and "Cheiracanthium erraticum Westring, 1861: 380" show that in 1805 Walckenaer transferred the species from his earlier Aranea to Clubiona and in 1861 Westring then transferred it to Cheiracanthium. In zoological nomenclature, when a species is moved from one genus to another retaining the second part of the binomen (the species name), the name and date of the original author is kept, placed in parentheses (see Author citation (zoology)). The mover is ignored (unlike botanical nomenclature). So the correct citations of these two names are "Clubiona erratica (Walckenaer, 1802)" and "Cheiracanthium erraticum (Walckenaer, 1802)". You can check the correctness of the second one from the entry for the species in the WSC.

Sometimes one of the other references will give a true synonym list with taxon authors and dates, but the WSC is usually more detailed, so is often the best source once it has been "decoded". Peter coxhead (talk) 09:55, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Xysticus cristatus is another nice article, but the synonyms are still not right. Peter coxhead (talk) 08:59, 18 September 2016 (UTC)

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Another nice article
Nice start article on Allan Frost Archer! You can search the bibliography at the World Spider Catalog – see here. These could be added to the article, perhaps. Peter coxhead (talk) 19:17, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Link in taxonomy template
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Invite to the African Destubathon
Hi. You may be interested in participating in the African Destubathon which starts on October 15. Africa currently has over 37,000 stubs and badly needs a quality improvement editathon/contest to flesh out basic stubs. There are proposed substantial prizes to give to editors who do the most geography, wildlife and women articles, and planned smaller prizes for doing to most destubs for each of the 55 African countries, so should be enjoyable! Even if contests aren't your thing we would be grateful if you could consider destubbing a few African wildlife articles during the drive to help the cause and help reduce the massive 37,000 + stub count, of which many are rated high importance. If you're interested in competing or just loosely contributing any article related to a topic you often work on, please add your name to the Contestants/participants section. Might be a good way to work on fleshing out articles you've long been meaning to target and get rewarded for it! Diversity of work from a lot of people will make this that bit more special. Thanks. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 04:57, 13 October 2016 (UTC)

A little early I'm afraid, it starts in just under 3 hrs time :-) You can add the articles done already to WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge though, but the contest has to start on the 15th to make it a fair run!♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:14, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Ah that explains why no one else seemed to be participating. Thanks, missed that point.Quetzal1964 20:19, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Haha, yeah that's why! Can you make sure that all refs are filled out though, the Botswana entry had two sources in the middle which need publisher info, all the sourcing will have to be sound to be approved. Nice job other than that though! Just add the two or three you did to the challenge and then you can have a whole six weeks to do what you want in three hours time ;-). Best of luck and look forward to seeing more great articles coming in! If there's anybody else you might know who hasn't signed up and might be interested give them a bell too!♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:22, 14 October 2016 (UTC)

Can you remember to update the talk page project tag to start class too! I often forget that myself!♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:46, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Africa Destubathon
Hi, thanks for your work so far! Can you do me a favour though and always add every entry you do to the main list here as well as the entries page, regardless if yet approved or not as that's the master list of all articles being done. It's just veyr time consuming for me to be judging the articles, trying to contribute myself and chasing up what people have done and filling it out for people each time. So if you can take care of that this would be a great help, there's some part filled out ones underneath so you just need to add country, article name and then you username. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:33, 16 October 2016 (UTC) Will do, you haven't included Edible Bullfrog under the total for Zambia on the leaderboard, I assume I am not supposed to edit that. Back at work now, so edits should slow down a bit! Quetzal1964 07:42, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Can you remember to add entries to the main page list. Thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld  19:51, 19 October 2016 (UTC) Thought I was, what did I miss? Quetzal1964 19:55, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

Congrats after one week you're currently leading the contest with 6 countries held.♦ Dr. Blofeld  17:27, 22 October 2016 (UTC)

Fraser's eagle-owl
I have removed some of the content you added to the above article, as it appears to have been copied from http://www.owlpages.com/owls/species.php?s=1300, a copyright web page. All content you add to Wikipedia must be written in your own words. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you think I made a mistake. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 21:45, 23 October 2016 (UTC) I have rewritten it, actually most of the information on The Owl Pages has been taken from the book Owls by Konig, Weick and Becking which I own a copy of. I hope this version passes muster. Quetzal1964 06:03, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

Reference errors on 23 October
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DYK for Tetragnatha montana
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Merge proposal - "Acacia (Vachellia)" into "Vachellia"
Hi Quetzal1964. I see you have been doing work on vachellias, thought of letting you know about this merge proposal. It was tagged for merger, but the discussion was not created at the time, so it never happened. Perhaps you might want to look at it and act on the proposal. I merely created the merge discussion, but don't really know enough, especially with all the name changes (my father was a botanist, I still know things by the old names). Regards, Rui &#39;&#39;Gabriel&#39;&#39; Correia (talk) 00:40, 9 November 2016 (UTC)

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African scops owl
Thanks for spotting the corrupted file. I've re-uploaded it and it looks OK in Commons, but still distorts on Wikipedia. Weird. Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:20, 25 November 2016 (UTC) sorted now. cleared cache. Charles (born Dundee) Charlesjsharp (talk) 10:28, 25 November 2016 (UTC) ps we came close against Australia - again!

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Prizes
Hi, as you did a lot of wildlife/geo articles I think you could claim enough articles to win some vouchers under "Most geography and wildlife articles destubbed" if you want them at here You could use them to buy a book on wildlife you want or whatever. Given how many you did I'd guess you'd finish near the top on that. ♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:53, 28 November 2016 (UTC)  Sorry I was at work today, claim now in and I count 210, not including the pre challenge ones. Quetzal1964 16:33, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Africa Destubathon
Hello congratulations on winning first place in the Africa Destubathon. Please contact me at karla.marte@wikimedia.org.uk to coordinate sending the prize your way. Thanks, Karla Marte(WMUK) 12:16, 7 December 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karla Marte(WMUK) (talk • contribs)

Collect your prize
Hi, please carefully read the instructions at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon for collecting your remaining winnings. I will need you to send me an email, your wiki name, what I owe you and your preference for currency in dollars or pounds/country of residence.♦ Dr. Blofeld  14:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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Taxonbars for spiders
Could you please explain to me what you think is the point of adding Taxonbar to spider articles, such as Pardosa monticola for example. So what's the point of cluttering spider articles in this way? Peter coxhead (talk) 09:04, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
 * You haven't included the most important taxonomic database for spiders, the World Spider Catalog – this has to be added manually at present.
 * Fauna Europaea's taxonomy is hopelessly out of date; the division of Araneae into three suborders, Araneomorphae, Labidognatha and Orthognatha, was abandoned years ago.
 * ITIS says clearly that it got its data from an old version of the World Spider Catalog, so why include what is just a mirror site?
 * GBIF also copies from the World Spider Catalog, as noted here.
 * That leaves EoL, basically a lightly curated blog, no more reliable (and usually less so) than Wikipedia.
 * The only one of the taxonomic databases that adds anything is GBIF.

WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge
Hi, you're very welcome to contribute to this long term. It's slowed down since the Destubathon but we're nearly at 3000! More contests planned, though Europe may be the next destubathon.♦ Dr. Blofeld  11:05, 15 March 2017 (UTC)


 * , Thanks, just added a couple. I have been having fun with a wee bit of a personal project on the List of Lessepsian migrants, mainly new articles but some destubbing and other editing. The articles involve Africa too as Lessepsian migrants have been found as far west as Algeria. Some of the facts are really interesting, especially where species which were previously unknown to science were described in the med but were found to be invaders from the Red Sea but I can't nominate my own articles for DYK. (talk) Quetzal1964 20:38, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Excellent. Yes it's a pity that the African content production has decreased in recent months. Hopefully I can get a few contests running again though, they're definitely the best way to get content improved enmasse.♦ Dr. Blofeld  20:39, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks on behalf of Wikiproject Insects Hymenoptera task force!
Thanks for all your recent edits adding automatic taxoboxes to wasp pages! The taxonomy of many insect groups is often rewritten, and having automatic taxoboxes is a great way to deal with the changes to many pages at a higher level. I hope you continue to help shore up the many wasp pages! If you have any insights as to tasks that need to be done with Hymenoptera at large, consider visiting the task force page. Cheers! M. A. Broussard (talk) 23:05, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

Taxonomy template link parameter
Hi, the taxobox at Boulder chat should show the genus name, Pinarornis, in bold text and without a link – bold because the article is about the monotypic genus as well as the species, and unlinked because otherwise the link would be circular, just leading back to the article. When I first looked at the article, the line in the taxobox looked like this: "Genus: Pinarornis", whereas it should look like this: "Genus: Pinarornis".

To achieve this, link at Template:Taxonomy/Pinarornis must be given the value. What happens then is that the code that sets up the taxobox starts off with a wikilink like, but the Wikimedia software recognizes that the article is called "Boulder chat" so this is a circular link, and replaces it by bolding.

The general point is that link must be set to have the actual article title as the first value, and not rely on a redirect, otherwise the taxobox formatting won't always be correct.

One more of these subtle points about automated taxoboxes! Peter coxhead (talk) 20:08, 11 April 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Myrtle Florence Broome
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Proposed deletion of Symmorphoides
Your prod rationale was "this genus has no species in it according to GBIF and insectoid.info". Does that make it non-notable? All the best,  Mini  apolis  17:20, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * See my comment on the talk page.

DYK for Jacobus van der Vecht
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DYK nomination of Giovanni Gribodo
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Speedy deletion nomination of Dahlbohminus fuscipennis


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 * No problem it was a typing error so the title was misspelled, I am currently creating the page Dahlbominus fuscipennis with the name correctly spelled. Quetzal1964 (talk) 10:07, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Oh OK! I didn't know about that. Good luck with the article :) Field Marshal Aryan (talk) 06:25, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Giovanni Gribodo
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Template:Did you know nominations/Shinano River
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Bees
Great work on the bees. FYI: I have a Sandbox page listing all Bee species, already wikified. You might be interested in using this list to make genus articles? See: Ruigeroeland (talk) 08:32, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

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Snowy Egret
Thanks, but are you sure? I linked the wikidata item to three egrets, because the commons categories are not clear (and neither are the museums. Talking about this. So if correct, thanks, but can you check the others I linked in the Wikidata item - theoretically only one should be linked. Thx Jane (talk) 19:56, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Jane Absolutely sure. My reasoning is, putting aside that I am a birder with experience of most of the world's species called egrets, as you know the image is from Birds of America by Audubon (published originally in my home city of Edinburgh) and the image shows a small Egretta species in breeding plumage. The only candidate in North America in the early 19th Century would be Snowy Egret, Great egret is a much bulkier beast and in proportion more like the Great Blue Heron or Grey Heron. Here is a great egret from Birds of America http://audubon.nyhistory.org/great-egret/ and here is the link to the image you posted http://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/snowy-heron-or-white-egret . The old world little egret and cattle egret have now spread to the Americas too.Quetzal1964 (talk)  20:09, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Nice. It would be nice to have all of these linked to Wikidata items that point to the proper bird in Wikidata through Wikispecies. The Audubon images have all been uploaded and are indexed with page numbers here: GLAM/NHMandSM/NHM Galleries/Treasures/The Birds of America/Pages. Jane (talk) 21:58, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

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Michael Patrick Stuart Irwin
Hello Quetzal1964, I see you have added a date for the death of ornithologist, Michael P.S. Irwin. As an article for him does not yet exist and I am interested in starting one, do you have a link to his obituary? The only ref I have currently is this page. The September 2012 Honeyguide issue also looks promising, but I only have access to the index. 'Cheers, Loopy30 (talk) 23:14, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I subscribe to a listserv called African Birding and it was announced on that listserv that Michael Irwin had died on 13 September 2017 so it's a wee bit early for formal obituaries, of which I am sure there will be many. The first ones will probably be in the British press such as The Guardian, The Times or the Daily Telegraph. As he was born in Northern Ireland the Belfast Telegraph may also carry an obituary. The ornithological journals will take longer, as you are no doubt aware, but British Birds or Ibis will probably publish one. I own a 2nd edition copy of his Birds of Zimbabwe which has very limited biographical information on its author. Quetzal1964 (talk)  06:23, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Oooh, that is recent. I will just have to wait a bit before looking some more. Thanks, Loopy30 (talk) 10:07, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The death notice has appeared in The Babbler http://www.birdlifezimbabwe.org/Babblers/Babbler%20138.pdf but I can't see any signs of a formal obituary yet.Quetzal1964 (talk)  07:09, 1 November 2017 (UTC)

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 * yes personal circumstances. I tried to look at a few missing articles and its just that most would be outside my area of knowledge and interest and finding online sources seemed very difficult. Most of the articles appear to be BLPs which are normally a type of article I try to avoid. I certainly aim to try and edit or create a few more articles on women, especially women who have been active in biological sciences (see new "stub" on Louise Schilthuis) but not in a competitive way. Yes I do hope WMF continue to support your competitions and this one would have been a real challenge for me but at this moment I do not have the time.Quetzal1964 (talk)  07:12, 2 November 2017 (UTC)

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Technical move request declined
Hello, I removed your technical move request because the rationale you provided was incorrect. If you see FishBase, you will find that the scientific name is invalid. Of course, you may open an RM if you feel my removal was in error. With thanks. --<span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS',Geneva,sans-serif"> QEDK ( 桜  ❄  伴 ) 20:22, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
 * QEDK Thanks for that, it's not a problem, actually it looks like Fishbase has got itself (and me) confused over this, see Fishbase. So its Nemacheilus inglisi that should be changed from a redirect to an article which explains what's going on. Actually what you are refusing is not what I thought I was asking for, although looking closer the refusal would apply to my originally intended request. Quetzal1964 (talk)  22:04, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
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Family for Pareledone
Hi, I know nothing about the taxonomy of cephalopods; I merely constructed a taxonomy template, as it was missing, based on the article. I've changed Pareledone to fit the family you put in the taxonomy template, but there are no refs supporting this in the article, and those that are there support "Octopodidae". Can you add a ref for "Megaleledonidae"? Peter coxhead (talk) 07:50, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Peter, Thanks that's it done now with ref in template and article.Quetzal1964 (talk)  08:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

Sasakiopus salebrosus
Hi, Quetzal1964. I have moved the genus to the species because I do not think it makes sense to have two pages for what comes to be the same animal. I see it as useless, and in fact, it's something that I agree with. I think a taxon has to have a page if it contains two or more taxa. And the common names, it does not matter, usually put the common names of title, but it is not mandatory. By the way, in your message you tell me "but it will not follow the accepted conventions on Wikipedia". Is there any policy that affirms this? -- Super  Ψ   Dro  21:28, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


 * see Naming conventions (fauna) and in particular the section on monotypic taxa. Peter coxhead (talk) 22:02, 2 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Okey, thank you. I feel the inconveniences that I have caused to both of you. Super   Ψ   Dro  09:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

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Melittobia australica
Why suppressing the ref link ? Pueblopassingby (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * The word "catholic" does not need a citation, it has been used to emphasise that this species is not host specific. In this context "catholic" means non specialised, unfussy.Quetzal1964 (talk)  14:21, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * that does not answer the question. Please do.Pueblopassingby (talk) 14:24, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * or maybe you did not pay enough attention to see that there was a link added to a ref in the same edit ? Pueblopassingby (talk) 14:26, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Is a url needed when there is a doi? They both link to the reference so is having both not otiose? Quetzal1964 (talk)  14:29, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * By all means change "catholic" to a synonym if you think its more suitable. I think catholic is the most appropriate in this context. Quetzal1964 (talk)  14:33, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I am not going to revert that, I still think catholic in its non religious context "including a wide variety of things; all-embracing" is the correct term, and I was brought up as a Roman Catholic, but you didn't answer my question on why a url and a doi are both needed in a citation? Quetzal1964 (talk)  14:39, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * lol, I was answering it but your edit came along.
 * By experience doi work less often than url (I did not think so to start with and I really son't see why it should be so, but...). That's only my own experience, though must say it happened once more (!) only today. Also and more importantly, when the weblinks get broken, the works are easier to recover with the "broken link" data; whereas I don't know of the equivalent for doi (if there is one, please do tell: it would be very useful to know that). So I have taken to adding web links quite systematically. Pueblopassingby (talk) 14:43, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * N.B.: I fail to see how "catholic" can be considered as having a non-religious signification. In both en and fr, using it in a 'non-catholic' context still implies that catholic is a reference for 'agreed-upon norm'. As a bit of humour I'd say that considering the world's political context I quite appreciate it for all human affairs, but I'd rather we humans leave bees out of politics! :) Pueblopassingby (talk) 14:53, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Ex. of "broken doi" : same article, "Species of Melittobia (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) established in Bahamas, Costa Rica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Trinidad". Just updated it. Another reason I put web links is that with the web link, En wiki very intelligently puts a link on the whole title of article/book/aso - I find this somehow easier to use, it's more direct. Doi does not do that. Pueblopassingby (talk) 15:03, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You may personally fail to see how catholic can be used in a non religious context but as an ex-Roman Catholic, a native speaker of British English (Scottish variety) and a Biology graduate I find catholic has a scientific meaning too. Just google "catholic host choice in parasitoids" (annoyingly you have to add the last two words or you get articles about the Eucharist) and you will see the term is widely used. Quetzal1964 (talk)  15:14, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

An interesting Google search is for "catholic diet" OR "catholic diets" biology. It does produce a few related to religion, but judging at least from the first few pages of hits, most of the 800,000+ are biology-related. One result, for "their catholic diet and a geographically variable sex life completes a portrait of an unusual animal" struck me as somewhat amusing if you think that "catholic" always has the religious sense. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:06, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

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thanks for fixing up Centriscidae. I had no objections to the contents--it's just that the edits I reverted seem to have accidentally placed deletion tags on the article, and I couldn't otherwise figure out quickly how to fix them. I may have been a biologist, but I am totally ignorant about plant taxonomy. tell one plant  DGG ( talk ) 19:59, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
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Walter Kenrick Fisher
Please see WP:ENGVAR. The author of the article doesn't matter, it's the subject. GiantSnowman 19:01, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
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Good day, why did you remove the "Phylogeny of Apogonidae" section from the wikipage Apogonidae? It was properly cite and the work was from a reputable peer reviewed journal. If it was too detailed on lower level clades, you could have just taken off the genera and/tribes and let the subfamilies.Videsh Ramsahai (talk) 19:42, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
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 * April 2019&mdash;Issue 001


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Tree of Life editors are making a respectable showing in this year's WikiCup, with three regular editors advancing to the third round. Overall winner from 2016,, topped the scoreboard in points for round 2, getting a nice bonus for bringing Black mamba to FA. continues to favor things remotely related to bats, bringing Stellaluna to GA. Plants editor also advanced to round 3 with several plant-related DYKs. A March 2019 paper in PLOS Biology found that Wikipedia page views vary seasonally for species. With a dataset of 31,751 articles about species, the authors found that roughly a quarter of all articles had significant seasonal variations in page views on at least one language version of Wikipedia. They examined 245 language versions. Page views also peaked with cultural events, such as views of the Great white shark article during Shark Week or Turkey during Thanksgiving.
 * WikiCup heating up
 * Wikipedia page views track animal migrations, flowers blooming
 * Did you know ... that Tree of Life editors bring content to the front page nearly every day?

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 * Stuff bothers me that doesn't seem to get noticed by anyone else. Article says "... at the University of Texas in 1949." The cited home page adds "... (there was only one campus then)." Would it be reasonable to change to "... at the University of Texas in 1949 (Austin)." Shenme (talk) 03:42, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Once an article is published it's no longer my article and I try my hardest not to be precious about articles I create. Wikipedia also encourages editors to "be bold". However, I think that your suggested edit is ambiguous and implies there were other campuses. I would suggest that a qualifier be added such as "at the University of Texas in 1949, which then had its only campus in Austin."Quetzal1964 (talk) 05:24, 30 May 2019 (UTC)

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Wild Place Project
Wild Place Project isn't a zoo, it's an animal reservation. It's a 136 acre forest, and just because it's protected doesn't mean it's a zoo - They just didn't think brown bears and grey wolves wandering out of the reservation was a very smart idea. How about starting a discussion with me next time on the page's dedicated talk section before deleting all of contribution so hastily — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noah-x3 (talk • contribs) 06:00, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * It's a facility where animals are kept in captivity, maybe with bigger enclosures than the average zoo cage, and the public are charged for entrance. I don't see the difference between it and a safari park. There used to be a "bear park" at Balloch but I don't see anyone claiming that as a reintroduction of bears to Great Britain. It is run by Bristol Zoological Society and is called a conservation park, its the Bristol Zoo's equivalent of the Highland Wildlife Park or Whipsnade Zoo . I may have been quick to delete your edit but I was not hasty and I saw no need for discussion. Quetzal1964 (talk) 07:22, 1 June 2019 (UTC)

May 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * May 2019&mdash;Issue 002


 * Tree of Life


 * Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

On 23 May, user created a talk page post, "Revamp of Wikiproject Biology--Who is In?". In the days since, WP:BIOL has been bustling with activity, with over a dozen editors weighing in on this discussion, as well as several others that have subsequently spawned. An undercurrent of thought is that WP:BIOL has too many subprojects, preventing editors from easily interacting and stopping a "critical mass" of collaboration and engagement. Many mergers and consolidations of subprojects have been tentatively listed, with a consolidation of WikiProjects Genetics + Molecular and Cell Biology + Computational Biology + Biophysics currently in discussion. Other ideas being aired include updating old participants lists, redesigning project pages to make them more user-friendly, and clearly identifying long- and short-term goals.
 * Fundamental changes being discussed at WikiProject Biology

Editors and  had a very fruitful month, collaborating to bring two dinosaur articles to GA and then nominating them both for FA. They graciously decided to answer some questions for the first ToL Editor Spotlight, giving insight to their successful collaborations, explaining why you should collaborate with them, and also sharing some tidbits about their lives off-Wikipedia.
 * Editor Spotlight: These editors want you to write about dinosaurs

1) Enwebb: How long have you two been collaborating on articles? 2) Enwebb: Why dinosaurs? 3) Enwebb: Why should other editors join you in writing articles related to paleontology? Are you looking to attract new editors, or draw in experienced editors from other areas of Wikipedia?
 * Jens Lallensack: I started in the German Wikipedia in 2005 but switched to the English Wikipedia because of its very active dinosaur project. My first major collaboration with FunkMonk was on Heterodontosaurus in 2015.
 * FunkMonk: Yeah, we had interacted already on talk pages and through reviewing each other's articles, and at some point I was thinking of expanding Heterodontosaurus, and realised Jens had already written the German Wikipedia version, so it seemed natural to work together on the English one. Our latest collaboration was Spinophorosaurus, where by another coincidence, I had wanted to work on that article for the WP:Four Award, and it turned out that Jens had a German book about the expedition that found the dinosaur, which I wouldn't have been able to utilise with my meagre German skills. Between those, we also worked on Brachiosaurus, a wider Dinosaur Project collaboration between several editors.
 * JL: Because of the huge public interest in them. But dinosaurs are also highly interesting from a scientific point of view: key evolutionary innovations emerged within this group, such as warm-bloodedness, gigantism, and flight. Dinosaur research is, together with the study of fossil human remains, the most active field in paleontology. New scientific techniques and approaches tend to get developed within this field. Dinosaur research became increasingly interdisciplinary, and now does not only rely on various fields of biology and geology, but also on chemistry and physics, among others. Dinosaurs are therefore ideal to convey scientific methodology to the general public.
 * FM: As outlined above, dinosaurs have been described as a "gateway to science"; if you learn about dinosaurs, you will most likely also learn about a lot of scientific fields you would not necessarily be exposed to otherwise. On a more personal level, having grown up with and being influenced by various dinosaur media, it feels pretty cool to help spread knowledge about these animals, closest we can get to keeping them alive.
 * JL: Because we are a small but active and helpful community. Our Dinosaur collaboration, one of the very few active open collaborations in Wikipedia, makes high-level writing on important articles easier and more fun. Our collaboration is especially open to editors without prior experience in high-level writing. But we do not only write articles: several WikiProject Dinosaur participants are artists who do a great job illustrating the articles, and maintain an extensive and very active image review system. In fact, a number of later authors started with contributing images.
 * FM: Anyone who is interested in palaeontology is welcome to try writing articles, and we would be more than willing to help. I find that the more people that work on articles simultaneously with me, the more motivation I get to write myself. I am also one of those editors who started out contributing dinosaur illustrations and making minor edits, and only began writing after some years. But when I got to it, it wasn't as intimidating as I had feared, and I've learned a lot in the process. For example anatomy; if you know dinosaur anatomy, you have a very good framework for understanding the anatomy of other tetrapod animals, including humans.

4) Enwebb: Between the two of you, you have over 300 GA reviews. FunkMonk, you have over 250 of those. What keeps you coming back to review more articles?
 * FM: One of the main reasons I review GANs is to learn more about subjects that seem interesting (or which I would perhaps not come across otherwise). There are of course also more practical reasons, such as helping an article on its way towards FAC, to reduce the GAN backlog, and to "pay back" when I have a nomination up myself. It feels like a win-win situation where I can be entertained by interesting info, while also helping other editors get their nominations in shape, and we'll end up with an article that hopefully serves to educate a lot of people (the greater good).
 * JL: Because I enjoy reading Wikipedia articles and like to learn new things. In addition, reviews give me the opportunity to have direct contact with the authors, and help them to make their articles even better. This is quite rewarding for me personally. But I also review because I consider our GA and FA system to be of fundamental importance for Wikipedia. When I started editing Wikipedia (the German version), the article promotion reviews motivated me and improved my writing skills a lot. Submitting an article for review requires one to get serious and take additional steps to bring the article to the best quality possible. GAs and FAs are also a good starting point for readers, and may motivate them to become authors themselves.

5) Enwebb: What are your editing preferences? Any scripts or gadgets you find invaluable? 6) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-wiki?
 * FM: One script that everyone should know about is the duplink highlight tool. It will show duplinks within the intro and body of a given article separately, and it seems a lot of people still don't know about it, though they are happy when introduced to it. I really liked the citationbot too (since citation consistency is a boring chore to me), but it seems to be blocked at the moment due to some technical issues.
 * JL: I often review using the Wikipedia Beta app on my smartphone, as it allows me to read without needing to sit in front of the PC. For writing, I find the reference management software Zotero invaluable, as it generates citation templates automatically, saving a lot of time.
 * Editor's note: I downloaded Zotero and tried it for the first time and think it is a very useful tool. More here.
 * FM: Perhaps that I have no background in natural history/science, but work with animation and games. But fascination with and knowledge of nature and animals is actually very helpful when designing and animating characters and creatures, so it isn't that far off, and I can actually use some of the things I learn while writing here for my work (when I wrote the Dromaeosauroides article, it was partially to learn more about the animal for a design-school project).
 * JL: That I am actually doing research on dinosaurs. Though I avoid writing about topics I publish research on, my Wikipedia work helps me to keep a good general overview over the field, and quite regularly I can use what I learned while writing for Wikipedia for my research.

Get in touch with these editors regarding collaboration at WikiProject Dinosaurs!
 * Marine life continues to dominate ToL DYKs

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June 2019 Tree of Life Newsletter

 * June 2019&mdash;Issue 003


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 * Spineless editors overwhelmed by stubs

Within the Tree of Life and its many subprojects, there is an abundance of stubs. Welcome to Wikipedia, what's new, right? However, based on all wikiprojects listed (just over two thousand), the Tree of Life project is worse off in average article quality than most. Based on the concept of relative WikiWork (the average number of "steps" needed to have a project consisting of all featured articles (FAs), where stub status → FA consists of six steps), only seven projects within the ToL have an average rating of "start class" or better. Many projects, particularly those involving invertebrates, hover at an average article quality slightly better than a stub. With relative WikiWorks of 5.98 each, WikiProject Lepidoptera and WikiProject Beetles have the highest relative WikiWork of any project. Given that invertebrates are incredibly speciose, it may not surprise you that many articles about them are lower quality. WikiProject Beetles, for example, has over 20 times more articles than WikiProject Cats. Wikipedia will always be incomplete, so we should take our relatively low WikiWork as motivation to write more articles that are also better in quality.

We're joined for this month's Editor Spotlight by, a long-time contributor who lists themselves as a member of WikiProject Fungus, WikiProject Algae, and WikiProject Cephalopods.
 * Editor Spotlight: Showing love to misfit taxa

1) Enwebb: How did you come to edit articles about organisms and taxonomic groups?
 * Nessie: The main force, then and now, driving me to create or edit articles is thinking "Why isn't there an article on that on Wikipedia?" Either I'll read about some rarely-sighted creature in the deep sea or find something new on iNaturalist and want to learn more.  First stop (surprise!) is Wikipedia, and many times there is just a stub or no page at all.  Sometimes I just add the source that got me to the article, not sometimes I go deep and try to get everything from the library or online journals and put it all in an article.  The nice thing about taxa is the strong precedent that all accepted extant taxa are notable, so one does not need to really worry about doing a ton of research and having the page get removed.  I was super worried about this as a new editor:  I still really dislike conflict so if I can avoid it I do.  Anyway, the most important part is stitching an article in to the rest of Wikipedia:  Linking all the jargon, taxonomers, pollinators, etc., adding categories, and putting in the correct WikiProjects.  Recently I have been doing more of the stitching-in stuff with extant articles.  The last deep-dive article I made was Karuka at the end of last year, which is a bit of a break for me.  I guess it's easier to do all the other stuff on my tablet while watching TV.

2) Enwebb: Many editors in the ToL are highly specialized on a group of taxa. A look at your recently created articles includes much diversity, though, with viruses, bacteria, algae, and cnidarians all represented&mdash;are there any commonalities for the articles you work on? Would you say you're particularly interested in certain groups?
 * Nessie: I was a nerd from a time when that would get you beat up, so I like odd things and underdogs. I also avoid butting heads, so not only do I find siphonophores and seaweeds fascinating I don't have to worry about stepping on anyone's toes.  I go down rabbitholes where I start writing an article like Mastocarpus papillatus because I found some growing on some rocks, then in my research I see it is parasitized by Pythium porphyrae, which has no article, and how can that be for an oomycete that oddly lives in the ocean and also attacks my tasty nori.  So then I wrote that article and that got me blowing off the dust on other Oomycota articles, encouraged by the pull of propagating automatic taxoboxes.  Once you've done the taxonomy template for the genus, well then you might as well do all the species now that the template is taken care of for them too. and so on until I get sucked in somewhere else. I think it's good to advocate for some of these 'oddball' taxa as it makes it easier for editors to expand their range from say plants to the pathogenic microorganisms of their favorite plant.


 * My favorite clades though, It's hard to pick for a dilettante like me. I like working on virus taxonomy, but I can't think of a specific virus species that I am awed by.  Maybe Tulip breaking virus  for teaching us economics or Variola virus for having so many, one of which was popularly sung about by Desi Arnaz and then inspired the name of a cartoon character who was then misremembered and then turned into a nickname for Howard Stern's producer Gary Dell'Abate.  Sorry, really had to share that  chain, but for a species that's not a staple food it probably has the most deities.  But anyway, for having the most species that wow me, I love a good fungus or algae, but that often is led by my stomach.  Also why I seem to research so many plant articles.  You can't eat siphonophores, at least I don't, but they are fascinating with their federalist colonies of zooids.  Bats are all amazing, but the task force seems to have done so much I feel the oomycetes and slime moulds need more love.  Same thing with dinosaurs (I'm team Therizinosaurus though).  But honestly, every species has that one moment in the research where you just go, wow, that's so interesting.  For instance, I loved discovering that the picture-winged fly (Delphinia picta) has a mating dance that involves blowing bubbles.  Now I keep expecting them to show me when they land on my arm, but no such luck yet.

3) Enwebb: I noticed that many of your recent edits utilize the script Rater, which aids in quickly reassessing the quality and importance of an article. Why is it important to update talk page assessments of articles? I also noticed that the quality rating you assign often aligns with ORES, a script that uses machine-learning to predict article quality. Coincidence?
 * Nessie: I initially started focusing on WikiProject talk page templates because they seem to be the key to data collecting and maintenance for articles, much more so than categories. This is where you note of an article needs an image, or audio, or a range map.  It's how the cleanup listing bot sorts articles, and how  does his automated taxobox usage stats.  The latter inspired me to look for [https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?language=en&project=wikipedia&ns%5B0%5D=1&ns%5B118%5D=1&templates_any=Virusbox%0D%0ATaxonbar%0D%0ATaxobox%0D%0ASubspeciesbox%0D%0ASpeciesbox%0D%0AParaphyletic%20group%0D%0AOobox%0D%0AMissing-taxobox%0D%0AInfraspeciesbox%0D%0AIchnobox%0D%0AHybridbox%2Flua%0D%0AHybridbox%0D%0ABiota%20infobox%0D%0AAutomatic%20taxobox&templates_no=rodents%0D%0Afishproject%0D%0AWikiProject%20Viruses%0D%0AWikiProject%20Turtles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Spiders%0D%0AWikiProject%20Sharks%0D%0AWikiProject%20Rodents%0D%0AWikiProject%20Reptiles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Primates%0D%0AWikiProject%20Poultry%0D%0AWikiProject%20Plants%0D%0AWikiProject%20Paleontology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Palaeontology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Microbiology%0D%0AWikiProject%20Micro%0D%0AWikiProject%20Marine%20life%0D%0AWikiProject%20Marine%20Life%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mantodea%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mammals%2FBats%20Task%20Force%0D%0AWikiProject%20Mammals%0D%0AWikiProject%20Lepidoptera%0D%0AWikiProject%20Insects%0D%0AWikiProject%20Hypericaceae%0D%0AWikiProject%20Gastropods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Fungi%0D%0AWikiProject%20Fishes%0D%0AWikiProject%20Equine%0D%0AWikiProject%20Dogs%0D%0AWikiProject%20Dinosaurs%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cetaceans%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cephalopods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Cats%0D%0AWikiProject%20Carnivorous%20plants%0D%0AWikiProject%20Bivalves%0D%0AWikiProject%20Birds%0D%0AWikiProject%20Beetles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Banksia%0D%0AWikiProject%20Arthropods%0D%0AWikiProject%20Animals%0D%0AWikiProject%20Amphibians%20and%20Reptiles%0D%0AWikiProject%20Algae%0D%0AWPSpiders%0D%0AWP%20Spiders%0D%0ASquirrels%0D%0ARodent%0D%0AMammal%0D%0ALepidopteraTalk%0D%0ABirdTalk%0D%0AAARTalk&templates_use_talk_no=on&search_max_results=500&sortby=title&sortorder=descending&add_image=on&interface_language=en&active_tab=tab_templates_n_links&doit= articles on organisms that are not assigned to any ToL WikiProjects] which initially was in the thousands.  I got it down to zero with just copypasta so you can imagine I was excited when I saw the rater tool.  Back then I rated everything stub/low because it was faster:  I couldn't check every article for the items on the B-class checklists.  Plus each project has their own nuances to rating scales and I thought the editors in the individual projects would take it from there.  I also thought all species were important, so how can I choose a favorite?  Now it is much easier with the rater tool and the apparent consensus with 's method of rating by the pageviews (0-9 views/day is low, 10-99 is med, 100-999 is high...).  For the quality I generally go by the ORES rating, you caught me.  It sometimes is thrown off by a long list of species or something, but it's generally good for stub to C: above that needs formal investigation and procedures I am still learning about.  It seems that in the ToL projects we don't focus so much on getting articles to GA/FA so it's been harder to pick up.  It was a little culture shock when I went on the Discord server and it seemed everyone was obsessed with getting articles up in quality.  I think ToL is focusing on all the missing taxa and (re)organizing it all, which when you already have articles on every anime series or whatever you can focus on bulking the articles up more.  In any event, on my growing to-do list is trying to get an article up to FA or GA and learn the process that way so I can better do the quality ratings and not just kick the can down the road.

4) Enwebb: What, if anything, can ToL and its subprojects do to better support collaboration and coordination among editors? How can we improve?
 * Nessie: I mentioned earlier that the projects are the main way maintenance is done. And it is good that we have a bunch of subprojects that let those tasks get broken up into manageable pieces.  Frankly I'm amazed anything gets done with WikiProject Plants with how huge its scope is.  Yet this not only parcels out the work but the discussion as well.  A few editors like  and  keep an eye on many of the subprojects and spread the word, but it's still easy for newer editors to get a little lost.  There should be balance between the lumping and splitting.  The newsletter helps by crossing over all the WikiProjects, and if the discord channel picked up that would help too.  Possibly the big Enwiki talk page changes will help as well.

5) Enwebb: What would surprise the ToL community to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?
 * Nessie: I'm not sure anything would be surprising. I focus on nature offline too, foraging for mushrooms or wild plants and trying to avoid ticks and mosquitos.  I have started going magnet fishing lately, more to help clean up the environment than in the hopes of finding anything valuable.  But it would be fun to find a weapon and help solve a cold case or something.


 * June DYKs

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{| role="presentation" class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%; background:#b6ecd0;" By request from another editor, this month I wrote an overview of ways that content is featured on Wikipedia. Below I have outlined some of the processes for getting content featured:
 * Alphabet Soup: Explaining DYK, GA, FA, and More

Did You Know (DYK)
What is it: A way for articles to appear on the main page of Wikipedia. A short hook in the format of "Did you know...that ___" presents unusual and interesting facts to the reader, hopefully making the reader want to click through to the article

How it works: The DYK process has fairly low barriers for participation. The eligibility criteria are few and relatively easy to meet. Some important guidelines: The process for creating the nomination is somewhat tedious. Instructions can be found here (official instructions) and here ("quick and nice" guide to DYK). Experience is the best teacher here, so don't be afraid to try and fail a few times. The last few DYK nominations I've done, however, have been with the help of SD0001's DYK-helper script, which makes the process a bit more streamlined (you create the template from a popup box on the article; created template is automatically transcluded to nominations page and article talk page)
 * To be eligible, article is either new (newly created or moved to mainspace), a 5x expansion, or passed a GA review. Its creation, expansion, or promotion to GA must have been in the past 7 days.
 * Article must be long enough, with more than 1,500 characters of prose (this doesn't include embedded lists)
 * I find Shubinator's DYKcheck script useful in determining whether an article is eligible for nomination.

Once your nomination is created and transcluded, it will need to be reviewed. The reviewer will check that the article meets the eligibility criteria, that the hook is short enough, cited, and interesting, and that other requirements are met, such as for images. If you've been credited with more than 5 DYKs, the reviewer will also check that you've reviewed someone else's nomination for each article that you nominate. This is called QPQ (quid pro quo). You can check how many credited DYKs you've had here to see if QPQ is required for you to nominate an article for DYK.

Good Article (GA)
What it is: A peer review process to determine that an article meets a set of criteria. This adds a symbol to the top of the article. About 1 in 200 articles on Wikipedia is a GA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Anyone can nominate an article&mdash;you don't have to be a major contributor, though it is considered polite to inform the major contributors that you are nominating the article. The article is added to a queue to await a review. In the ToL, it seems that reviews happen pretty quickly, thanks to our dedicated members. Once the review begins, the reviewer will offer suggestions to help the article meet the 6 GA criteria. Upon addressing all concerns, the reviewer will pass the article, and voilà! Good Article!

Advice to a first-time nominator: Look at other Good Articles in related areas before nominating. If you're unsure about nominating, consider posting to the talk page of your project to see what other editors think. You can also have a more experienced editor co-nominate the article with you.

Featured Article (FA)
What it is: An exhaustive peer review to determine that an articles meets the criteria. This adds a to the top of the article. About 1 in 1,000 articles on Wikipedia is a FA.

How it works: You follow the instructions to nominate an article, placing a template on its talk page. Nominated articles are usually GAs already. Uninvolved editors can nominate, though the article's regular editors should be consulted first. Several editors will come by offering feedback, eventually supporting or opposing promotion to FA. A coordinator will determine if there is consensus to promote the article to FA. For an editor's first FA, spot checks to verify that the sources support the text are conducted.

Advice to a first-time nominator: The Featured Article Candidate (FAC) process is a bit intimidating, but several steps can make your first one easier (speaking as someone who has exactly one). If you also did the GA nomination of the article, you can ask the reviewer for "extra" feedback beyond the GA criteria. You can also formally request a peer review and/or a copy edit from the Guild of Copy Editors to check for content and mechanics. First-time nominators are encouraged to seek the help of a mentor for a higher likelihood of passing their first FAC.

Good and Featured Topics (GT and FT)
What it is: It took me a while to realize we even had GT and FT on Wikipedia, as they are not very common relative to GA and FA. Both GT and FT are collections of related articles of high quality (all articles at GA or FA, all lists at Featured List). GT/FT have to be at least 3 articles with no obvious gaps in coverage of the topic, along with other criteria. For GT, all articles have to be GA quality and all lists must be FL. For FT, at least half the articles must be FA or FL, with the remaining articles at GA.

How it works: Follow the nomination procedures for creating a new topic or adding an article to an existing topic. Other editors weigh in to support or oppose the proposal. Coordinators determine if there is consensus to promote to GT/FT.

Advice to a first-time nominator: There are very few GT/FT in Tree of Life (5 GT and 11 FT). Most of the legwork appears to be improving a cohesive set of articles to GA/FA.
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