Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Diptera

Welcome, WikiProject Diptera!
Hi I see you have various levels of experience, but to the newcomers to Wikipedia in general, welcome! The Tree of Life community also welcomes you as a WikiProject. We hope you really like the place and stick around. I hope you take the time to poke around some other active and successful projects like WP:BIRDS, WP:PLANTS, and WP:DINOS to see how things are set up and organized. I especially want to point you towards WikiProject Tree of Life, which is a central "watering hole" for all editors interested in taxonomy/natural history on Wikipedia.

I'm Enwebb. I run the Tree of Life Newsletter (where I'll be talking about you on the next issue!). I also am something of a coordinator over at the Bats task force, an offshoot of WikiProject Mammals. Like many editors around here, I would be happy to help you if you run into any problems. As the Bats task force is relatively new, I still remember setting up most of the new project things like a hot articles report (articles in the scope of your project that have been edited the most within a certain time period), article alerts (like if an article in your project is nominated for deletion or to be merged), a popular pages report (which pages in your project get the most views each month), an assessment table (the articles in your project by quality and importance), and so on. I could help set up some of these gadgets for your project as well if you'd find them useful.

I hope you enjoy your project this semester (I, too, learned how to edit Wikipedia through Wiki Education as a graduate student), but most of all, I hope you stick around afterwards. Accessible and accurate information is so important for a well-educated public, and I cannot overstate the impact you can have here! Best, Enwebb (talk) 23:09, 1 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you . We welcome all help! The Bats Task Force is extremely impressive. We would certainly like to know more about setting up assessment tables, hot articles report, a popular pages report. One of the first steps is probably to mark pages that are in the domain of this project. We are unsure as to how to do it. Best, Shreenidhipm
 * The fastest way for you to personally tag articles in the scope of this project is by installing "Rater", which is a script that modifies the Wikipedia interface. You can find directions here. So once you install the script, you could go to an article such as Dixidae, click the "more" dropdown button on the top next to the watchlist star, and you should see an option for "Rater". Click through, and you'll see a popup window with an option at the bottom to "Add Wikiproject" where, if you typed in Diptera, you would see this project. Manually, you would achieve this by going to the talk page for Dixidae and editing the source, then pasting in, swapping out class and importance values as necessary. Doing this for every taxonomic grouping of flies would be fairly tedious, though, so I will see if there's a way to automate this process and get back to you.


 * Essentially, none of the other nifty gadgets will work until articles are tagged, which will populate the necessary categories. WikiProject Diptera already has a Articles alert report and hot articles report, but they aren't accurate as there are very few articles tagged as WikiProject Diptera. Also, as a tip, you can sign posts on the talk page by typing ~, which will autofill your username and the timestamp of the post :) Enwebb (talk) 22:41, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Update: I have posted a request for a bot to go through a large number of categories to add the talk page template. The request is here. I will monitor it and keep you updated once it's done. Enwebb (talk) 02:02, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
 * can you confirm that the articles in the below categories should be tagged as WikiProject Diptera? Enwebb (talk) 02:05, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, these articles are related to Diptera. Shreenidhipm (talk) 20:13, 1 October 2019 (UTC)

Confirming articles to be tagged as WikiProject Diptera
Hi, can a member of WikiProject Diptera look over the categories in the above collapsed section and confirm that they are within the scope of WikiProject Diptera? Once I have your confirmation, the articles will be tagged by bot. Then you can have gadgets such as the hot articles bot and popular pages report. I need at least one member to reply below and say that those categories are fine. Enwebb (talk) 20:06, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * These look fine to me. Wikijmedina (talk) 18:10, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Emperoptera and Emperoptera mirabilis
The long-legged fly genus Emperoptera has been considered a synonym of Campsicnemus again since 2010, so the following probably needs to be done:
 * Emperoptera should be turned into a redirect of Campsicnemus
 * Emperoptera mirabilis should be moved back to Campsicnemus mirabilis

I would have done this myself, as I've been aware of the facts for some time now, but Campsicnemus mirabilis is already a direct to Emperoptera mirabilis so I'm not sure how messy the moving would be. However, I did already add Emperoptera's species to the Campsicnemus species list, so I don't think a lot else needs to be done at least.

Reference for synonymy (which I added to Emperoptera's article back in late 2018):

Monster Iestyn (talk) 19:24, 31 December 2019 (UTC)


 * You should be able to move to C. mirabilis without creating any mess (as long as a redirect has only a single edit, you can move it without a problem). Plantdrew (talk) 19:49, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's helpful to know then, thanks. Monster Iestyn (talk)
 * Just made the changes now, just so you know. Monster Iestyn (talk) 20:30, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

Phytomyza ilicis
Howdy all, I've just expanded the article for Phytomyza ilicis. If anyone is feeling like a good samaritan, I'd appreciate it being checked against the criteria for B-class articles and any pointers towards what is obviously omitted. Considering this as one to try to take to GA-class. Obvious omission as far as I can see is the absence of a freely licensed image of the adult fly! All comments/help/additions welcome.Zakhx150 (talk) 17:19, 28 February 2020 (UTC)

Article creation at scale discussion
There is a discussion at Arbitration Committee/Requests for comment/Article creation at scale; the primary issue of concern is editors creating large numbers of stubs. Articles on species are repeatedly brought up as examples. "Large numbers" is not defined, but from the positions taken by some commenters an editor who regularly creates one article a day might be considered to be engaged in article creation at scale. Plantdrew (talk) 17:10, 13 October 2022 (UTC)