Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles

Welcome to WikiProject Turtles. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Turtles and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.



Mission
We will expand and organise Wikipedia's turtle articles.

Peer review
If you have expanded an article and would like other to look at it and offer constructive commentary, you can put it up for a Peer review.
 * Peer review

To create

 * Extinct turtles
 * Subgenus redirects:Chelodina Chelodina, Macrochelodina

See also Red links and Articles in other languages but not on English Wikipedia
 * Others
 * More article issues may be found on https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Turtles.html

Guidelines and things to include
For species articles, try to follow the FAs and GAs. (See also ideas from another animal Primates/Article format.) Perhaps something like the following for a general layout (adaptation is welcome of course): Lead
 * Taxonomy
 * Description
 * Distribution and habitat
 * Population features
 * Evolutionary history and fossil record


 * Ecology and behavior
 * Predators
 * Diet
 * Movement
 * Life cycle


 * Conservation

Very widespread species and those affected by humans to a measurable extent should also include a "Relations with humans" section. Be sure, as always, to include references.

A taxonomy box should be included. To the right is one for the Spotted turtle. The taxonomic classification of the turtle is expressed here. It can also include taxonomic synonyms, conservation status, and a range map.

Pictures
Every species article should have at least one picture of the animal. Here's an example:



Range maps
Readers want each animal's range mapped. For a Featured Article, it is a requirement. An example:



Image labeling

 * A thoughtful caption (concise, but pointing out important features and connecting the subject to the article) should be included with every image.
 * Alternative text helps blind readers "see" images, so it should be added as well.
 * Maps should be carefully labeled when multiple species or time periods of range are displayed.
 * All charts should have well-described axes.

Example: For the turtle photograph above, the code reads:

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[[Image:Nuvola_apps_kuser.png|20px|Participants]] Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest (please sign with three tildes " "). Also, try to keep the list alphabetical, thank you.
 * 1) Borophagus (talk) Amateur palaeontologist working on articles on extinct pleurodires.
 * 2) Crazyaboutturtles (talk) Hobbyist turtle keeper. Especially interested in making turtle knowledge available in the languages I speak: Dutch, German, English
 * 3) D. Gordon E. Robertson (talk) – amateur naturalist and photographer
 * 4) Faendalimas (talk) Specialist Turtle Taxonomist, have worked with side-necks, soft-shells and tortoises mostly, including fossil forms. Happy to help with nomenclatural issues.
 * 5) Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 22:21, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 6) &mdash;innotata Interested, and thought of proposing such a project earlier. I'll put my name here for now and see if I get involved.
 * 7) LJ (talk) 07:12, 25 December 2021 (UTC) biochemist, law student, amateur naturalist as well. enjoys fixing typos and building out existing articles.
 * 8) Jak474 (talk)
 * 9) Lfstevens (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC) Hawksbill and green sea turtles
 * 10) Wikilouque (talk) Researched distribution, abundance, and morphology of map turtles for Master's degree, works in conservation, and naturalist.
 * 11)  S n o w  let's rap Scientist and amateur naturalist. I enjoy writing articles for taxons that are quiet little unsung heroes of the natural world. :)
 * 12) Vidasubacuatica (talk) – amateur naturalist

Optional userbox
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Assessment
Hot articles

Popular pages

 * Popular pages with raw page views
 * by scoring of Version 1.0 Editorial Team

Featured articles
Bog turtle Galápagos tortoise Loggerhead sea turtle Painted turtle Turtle Wells and Wellington affair

Good articles
Archelon Wood turtle

Featured lists
List of Testudines families U.S. state reptiles List of reptiles of Michigan

Featured pictures
See the /Turtles Featured Pictures subpage for a display:
 * Six images are Wikipedia Featured Pictures.
 * Eight images are Commons Featured Pictures.
 * One image is honored by both groups.

Former featured articles
Marginated tortoise

New articles
Please feel free to list your new turtles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any disputed templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.


 * Cold-stunning

Categories
Subcategories of Turtles:


 * Category tool: PetScan

Templates
Template:WikiProject Turtles When is placed at the top of a talk page, it yields the following banner:

Navigation boxes

 * Order
 * Suborder Covers families of Chelidae, Pelomedusidae and Podocnemididae
 * Families

Resources

 * For biological and ecological information




 * Taxonomy checklists and Conservation status






 * Includes Conservation status, English naming and distribution
 * Includes Conservation status, English naming and distribution
 * Includes Conservation status, English naming and distribution


 * Detailed, with synonyms and distribution.
 * IUCN Red List Overview IUCN Conservation status
 * Order Testudines - Turtles, The Reptile Database. Often out of date taxonomy but drilling down to the detail level does give a useful list of references.
 * Testudines taxonomy ITIS (out of date) Turtle data of around 2004
 * Images
 * Flickr search with content for commercial use
 * US Fed website with great sea turtle images.
 * iNaturalist image search
 * Common names
 * Rhodin 2010 and Rhodin 2011 both have common names
 * iucn red list
 * Authors: C.H. Ernst, R.G.M. Altenburg & R.W. Barbour. Search turtles
 * World Chelonian Trust
 * austins turtle page
 * iNaturalist. Lots of user provided information
 * https://www.reptilefact.com/category/turtles

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
 * HotArticles - Shows most edited articles
 * Altviewer View the alternative wording for images. Accessibility for the partially blind.
 * Category Scan tool
 * Reference generator. Not 100% for FA but an easy start for referencing.
 * Webcitation.org to archive online resources

Sisterlinks

 * Graphic Lab/Map workshop
 * Graphic Lab/Map workshop
 * WikiProject Maps
 * WikiMedia commons central resource of images. Use search for species.

Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Turtles is an offshoot of WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. We maintain close ties with our mother project.


 * WikiProject Science.
 * WikiProject Biology
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Animals
 * WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
 * WikiProject Turtles

Other related WikiProjects:


 * WikiProject Extinction