User:AshLin/Draft guidelines for categorisation

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The proposed method of categorisation for articles on Lepidoptera, for approval as a WikiProject Lepidoptera guideline is outlined in the succeeding paragraphs.

Note: This guideline caters for the fact that articles are named both after scientific names and common names and is accordingly complicated to cater for both systems as is currently prevalent. The guidelines will be rewritten should consensus in the group develop to accepting scientific names only for article names.

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[edit] Category Tree

It is planned that Category:Lepidoptera have

  • Categories Butterflies, Skippers and Moths for english names Wikis.
  • Family categories as subcategories of Category:Lepidoptera to house the scientific name wikis in a tree of life structure.
  • Category:Lepidoptera biology for generic articles about Lepidoptera.
  • Category:Lepidoptera lists or Category:Lists of butterflies and moths for the lists.
  • Miscellaneous articles/categories to remain in Category:Lepidoptera such as Categories for Fictional butterflies and moths, Books, People, Institutions etc.

It is planned that redirects be created for all names, scientific names, synonyms which are not already wikis.

It is planned that in case of english name wikis, the redirected scientific name be categorised so that each genus have all its members intact. No such categorisation is planned for all the common name redirects, spelling/format variant name or synonym redirects.

[edit] Category pages

[edit] Species

  • Species. No category is being planned at the moment for a particular species.

[edit] Higher taxa

  • Family. Each family should have a category page. This page must have category stubs for 'Butterflies', 'Skippers' or 'Moths' as applicable.
  • Subfamily or Tribe. Categories may be made for each subfamily or tribe in case the parent family or subfamily exceeds 100 species and it is felt necessary to subdivide the family category due to too many species. This category page must have category stubs for its parent family, as the case may be, and, 'Butterflies', Moths or Skippers as the case may be.
  • Genus.
    • Each genus, for which a wikipage exists, should have a category page if it has 5 or more species.
    • If it is monotypic or has less than 5 species, it is not considered desirable to have a category page for it.

The genus, tribe, subfamily or family category page should be named directly as per the scientific name, for example, Ochlodes genus category page should be named 'Ochlodes' without prefix or suffix.

[edit] Wikipages

  • Genera.
    • If a genus has a wiki page using the common name, for example, 'Grizzled Skippers', then it should have at least two categories - that of the family it belongs to (in this case 'Hesperiidae'), and the genus or genera it represents (one category per genus, if it represents more than one genus).

:** If a genus is named after the scientific name, firstly please ensure that it's wikipage is titled with the text '(genus)' following it's scientific name. <Note the space between the 'genus name and the text '(genus)'>. It must also have two categories, that is, in the name of the genus and in the name of the family it belongs to.

  • Species. A species will be categorised as follows :-
    • Species belonging to a genus with 5 species or more: The genus category will be added to the species page and no other taxonomic category.
    • Species belonging to genus having less than 5 species: The category of the next higher taxa will be used in the species page. This may be tribe, subfamily or family based on number of pages. The genus page itself will also belong to the same higher taxa as the species page.
    • Species belonging to a monotypic genus: The species and genus page will be merged and the category of the next higher taxa in the category tree will be placed on the genus/species page.
  • If a species has a wiki page using the common name, for example, 'Forest Hopper', then :-
    • It should have at least two categories - that of the family ('Hesperiidae'), and the genus it belongs to. This helps it to be found easily.
  • If a species has a page named after the scientific name:-

(Why? To prevent unnecessary clutterup! If a person can name/find a species by scientific name, we assume he is able to recognise its family from the taxobox info, and follow up the category chain to the family. Please realise each family may have hundreds or thousands of species, and I'm being optimistic about wikipedia and wikieditors :) .)

[edit] Double categorisation of head articles

I reproduce a quote by User:Stemonitis from a recent post on Arthropod talk verbatim :

If making a category for a genus, then the genus article should be both in that category and in the parent category. Ornithoptera should be in Category:Ornithoptera (preferably top sorted with a space: [[Category:Ornithoptera| ]]) as well as Category:Papilionidae. This is true for all head articles of categories.

I have changed the examples Stemonitis gave with those relevant to our WikiProject.

[edit] Generic Articles

  • This refers to all articles, not dealing with a particular taxon or group of butterflies. For example, 'Butterfly Zoo' is considered a general article, while 'Birdwing' is not.
  • It may be assumed that all such general articles will be directly related to butterflies as a whole, so the category 'Lepidoptera' is a mandatory category for it to appear anywhere at all in this domain of knowledge.
  • Common sense should be applied for giving any other categories to a general article. For example, if an article, such as 'Morphology of Larva of Papilionidae' <non-existant, at present> relates down to a family (Papilionidae, in this case), or an existing category, such as 'Extinct Butterflies' or 'Regional Lists', appropriate categories may be given in addition.
  • No specific guidelines, aside from those listed above, can be given.