"Help the world out and create this page on Wikipedia!"

I did insert a bit of my own opinion about what a “good” wikipedia species page should look like, so I hope that doesn’t intimidate folks or result in a lot of stub pages with content-less sections. Personally I think the sections are useful, even if they end up being sparse, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraphrynus_carolynae. Happy to change the sections if folks want (didn’t notice this page Cassi made until just now). I tried to choose categories that are potentially relevant to all taxa (not all taxa have human uses or are of conservation concern, for example).

Susan, maybe you know this: do tools like Speciesbox work for non-English Wikipedias? Part of the reason I only made this show up when the site is displayed in English is because I’m lazy and globalizing mixtures of code and text like this can get tricky, but the other was that I wasn’t even sure if this kind of template would be useful on the other localized Wikipedias. For example, at https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilionoidea?action=edit&veswitched=1 the actual taxobox code seems to have been translated:

{{Ficha de taxón
| name = Papilionoidea
}}

That seems… kinda crazy from an engineering perspective, and not something I think we can translate easily on our end.

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