Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Beetles/Archive 2

New pages about Mastax
Hey guys, User:Jackson Cordeiro Brilhador has been creating a lot of new pages about beetles. Could one of you take a look at them, see if they check out? They could also use a bit of fleshing out as a whole. Thanks! --Hawks Discussedits 17:57, 31 January 2016 (UTC)

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Elmidae
Local news article in Arizona announced the extinction of a Beetle: []. I thought this was a significant fact that should be added somewhere, but the mostly likely place to put it is in Elmidae which is just a list of the family. There are no details about anything there. I'm guessing that the extinct beetle identified as "Stephan’s riffle beetle" in the news article is in fact Pseudancyronyx. Is it OK to start adding prose into the article? Or is there a better way to handle this? MB 04:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes start adding prose! All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 10:00, 6 January 2017 (UTC).

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Greetings & DYK
Howdy all. Just officially put my name down for this Wikiproject despite having already worked on bits of it. So Hi.

Thought I'd flag a WP:BEETLES DYK I just put up for nomination Template:Did you know nominations/Meloe variegatus as a welcome gift. Zakhx150 (talk) 13:41, 22 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Also, I'll hopefully be working on the Tansy Beetle article - for anyone unfamiliar its a UK Nationally rare species. There is a lot of work being done on the conservation in York, UK, where I'm based and I'm familiar with some of the people involved in it. Going to ask for some additional resources/papers to build it up a bit. I've just updated and upgraded the WP class to 'Start'(Talk:Tansy beetle).Zakhx150 (talk) 20:53, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Genera required
Having been tagging hundreds of Chrysomelidae stubs as orphans using AWB, there appears to be a large number of article at species level which have no geneus to link to. Most of those I've come across in this overview relate to African species and all articles use a single list-based source 1. They are created by a single user with autopatrolled status; so the metadata/orphan flags hadn't been picked up as part of the New Page Patrol review. For future convenience, here is the (Link to Articles Created page of user in question). Any assistance gratefully received, but I'll plough on eventually anyway.Zakhx150 (talk) 22:26, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Being a pest
Howdy.

Partly because it's something I've been thinking about and partly as a way to gauge the level of current interest in the WP, I'm opening the floor to suggest an update of the WP userbox template. Please Assume good faith with this message, but I've been doing some updates to the project page. The one suggested below includes a logo of a Coccinellid rather than the line drawing of the current userbox, reasoning that ladybirds are one of the most recognisable beetles in the world. Colour, text size, other changes are available from all good high street stores.

Pinging the other five listed members of the WP who aren't actually blocked:


 * For posterity - I'm taking it upon myself to make the change mentioned above. New userbox ahoy.Zakhx150 (talk) 16:17, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

GA Success
An important milestone has just been achieved - the article Beetle has just been promoted to Good Article Class! Huzzah. Thanks to any and all who had worked on it over its development, and to for reviewing it. Zakhx150 (talk) 09:17, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

Automatic taxoboxes
Members of WP Beetles, we are having a discussion over at WP Insects about whether we should recommend switching from taxoboxes to automatic taxoboxes to increase the maintainability of our large number of pages. We'd appreciate your input! M. A. Broussard (talk) 02:30, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report
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