Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology/Region fossil list tutorial


 * 1) Replace "?" in the taxon resolution columns with "tentative report".
 * 2) Replace "cf." in the taxon resolution columns with "or unidentified comparable form".
 * 3) Replace "aff." in the taxon resolution columns with "or unidentified related form".
 * 4) Replace """ in the taxon resolution columns with "report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature".
 * 5) Replace "n. sp." in the taxon resolution columns with "type locality for species".
 * 6) Replace "n. gen." in the taxon resolution columns with "type locality for genus".
 * 7) Copy genus column.
 * 8) Copy species column.
 * 9) Arrange new genus column with one column separating it from new species column.
 * 10) Fill the cells of the blank cloumn with a single space apiece.
 * 11) Copy the new genus, space, and species columns and paste them into MS note pad as unformatted text.
 * 12) Copy the tab character padding the document out with extra space.
 * 13) Paste it in the find part of the find/replace dialogue and replace it with nothing.
 * 14) Replace the original species name column with the new list of binomials.
 * 15) Insert a column before the column of species binomials.
 * 16) Fill every cell in the new column with " ** †''[[ ". (Don't use the dagger if most taxa are extant.)
 * 17) Insert new column before original genus column and fill every cell with " * †''[[ " Don't use the dagger if most taxa are extant.)
 * 18) Add the contents of the species resolution column to the bottom of the genus resolution column.
 * 19) Add the contents of the double asterisked " ** †[[ " column to the bottom of the single asterisked " * †[[ " column.
 * 20) Add the contents of the binomial column to the bottom of the original genus column.
 * 21) Insert a new column after the combined genus and binomial column.
 * 22) Fill each cell in the new column with "]] '' – ".
 * 23) Create a new column after the "]] '' – " column
 * 24) Move the column of combined taxonomic resolution data to the new column.
 * 25) Replace "sp." with nothing.
 * 26) Erase all informal species from the final list.