Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Current copy of the IUCN Red List in the Wikipedia database=edit

This would allow to refer to IUCN IDs of species. So Red List Status could be retrieved automatically from such table. For example using template replacing IUCN number by status. Such current copy of IUCN table would be especially useful in case of articles with lists of species. So status of each species, sometimes in very long list, like here:

List of North American birds

would update itself, based on species ID. Species IDs change too, but much more rarely then their status.

Tables with the Endangered Species Act status and other lists connected to special template retrieving status from them would be useful too. Obviously such template should open that table only once / article, not each species.