Hi all,
As an editor on a couple of different ‘authoritative’ taxon catalogs, i’ve recently been looking at how various ‘taxon-information’ or ‘name provider’ resources interlink. Far above bouteloua said “i’m not sure iNat should be purporting to be a source of taxonomy that will spread to Wikipedia”. With so many taxa without the basics on Wiki, then i disagree, i felt having the basics as a template is good - even as motivation. Hence, i’ve now tried creating a few wiki pages with help of this template, and here’s my feedback for some template issues.
Otherwise, again per bouteloua i totally agree that adding something to “explicitly telling them to source/confirm the taxonomic and other information from elsewhere” can be a useful caveat, such as e.g. “<x!x-- Note: listed taxa can be incomplete, or contain errors–>”.
Here goes,
Firstly, just to echo my support for what is clearly said above multiple times:
Remove lines given in the template for genus etc
| rank =
| parent =
Or from the template the species
| parent =
These cause errors that were very confusing to me as a new wiki user, and i expect to others!
It could be helpful to replace aspects of taxobox (for genera etc) with
| image =
| image_caption =
| authority =
| type_species =
| type_species_authority =
All of which seem to not raise errors if remain blank, the setup can be different for the species template using the speciesbox
Else, could be nice to remove this repeated citation line away from EVERY species in a list
and instead say it just once after the lead in line of “contains the following species:”
Then also there some caveat about the list can helpful, e.g. comment of:
<x!x-- Note: Imported list may be incomplete, or contain other issues, please verify across multiple reliable sources–>
Then for every species listed in a species, rather than redundant ref name, instead a placeholder for the authority and year can be useful.
- ‘’[[GenusX speciesX]]‘’ {{small|<x!x–insert authority and year–>}}
Finally add
{{Taxonbar|from=}}
Else, today under a flag on iNaturalist - another user helpfully suggested to italicise the imported name in the iNaturalist citation, i.e as {{cite web |title=Genus ‘‘xyz’’ |url=. etc
Here, just give scientific formation by addition of some apostrophies.