Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Style suggestions
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The hints presented on this page are merely suggestions on how to best create a new page for the spider project. Read them, but write the pages the way you like. If you disagree with suggestions proposed here, please discuss this at the Talk page.
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[edit] Page title
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life#Article titles and common names for suggestions on naming pages dealing with a species, genus, subfamily or similar.
[edit] Taxoboxes
Every page of a species, genus, subfamily, or other clearly defined taxonomical grouping should have a Taxobox. Here are two templates for the most common hierarchy layers:
When creating a page for a species, it's best to create a page for the genus too (if it doesn't exist already), or just make a request below, then somebody else will create it.
[edit] Species describers
You can use the List of Arachnologists to easily wikify the describers of taxa.]]
If you don't find the describer in this (yet) small list, try if you find it in one of these:
If you do, please enter it into the above list. There are also sometimes wiki pages about people that do not appear in any of these three lists.
To wikify the describers has several benefits:
- it helps to find out who this person was
- it provides (even if it's a redlink) an easy way to find all taxa described by this person (via What links here).
[edit] Distribution maps
It's easiest to work with a layered template for entering range information into a world map. At the moment, pure green (#00FF00, (0,255,0)) is used, (example). I use such a template for the gimp, call me if you can use it. --Sarefo 15:11, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] References
Suggestion on how to insert references:
The year is in parentheses behind the author's name, species, genera and journal name are in italics.
[edit] Add categories
When creating a species page, check the category for the (scientific) family name first; if it's not crowded, just place the page into the family category (example: Mopsus mormon). If you don't know the family, or don't know the scientific name, just put it in category Spiders; somebody else will categorize it then.
[edit] Mark stubs
If you think an article is not useful yet for most people for lacking information, mark it by putting
- {{arachnid-stub}}
at the end. This way it's easiest for other editors to find articles that need be taken care of.
[edit] Mark Talk page
If you enter this template:
- {{WPSpiders}}
at the beginning of a talk page, people will be directed to this project. It is also good practice to grade the article (by importance, and by quality), see Article Classification. This is actually quite important; this way we can stay on top of more than a thousand articles related to spiders.
