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If you need any help on creating suitable articles then please ask me at my talk page, kindest regards, Spitfire^Tally-ho! 11:23, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Subfamilies should only be added to taxoboxes when the subject of the articles is genus level. - UtherSRG (talk) 04:14, 21 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. In general, we only include the major taxa (regnum, phylum, classis, ordo, familia, genus, species) and minor taxa immediately above the taxon described in an article (for example, subfamily and tribe in Cryptonanus). Other ranks are unnecessary and only clutter up the taxobox. Ucucha 12:09, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Snowleopard! You seem knowlegeable about the subject of zoology. I am also working animal related articles of Wikipedia. I have had some debate with some other editors (administrator?) about using subfamilies. It seems that some have taken it upon themselves to delete information on subfamilies which are useful to readers. Have you had any frustrations with this? I checked the Wikipedia Taxon page ( Wikipedia:Taxobox_usage ) and found this: "Taxoboxes should include all major ranks above the taxon described in the article, PLUS minor ranks that are important to understanding the classification of the taxon described in the article, or which are discussed in the article. Other minor ranks should be omitted." Was some council of the scholars held deciding more? What are your thoughts on this?

Bruinfan12 (talk) 02:40, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi bruinfan12, there are so many different groups, sites, and books so that it is kind of hard to decide which one is true. Many well known groups like National Geographic don't seem to say. I think maybe putting on the page that there are many differing opinions most saying there are 25-32 subspecies but "the canonical Mammal Species of the World (3rd edition) recognizes six subspecies, five of which are solely found in Latin America:[1]" They don't even recognize the Florida Panther as a separate subspecies and every other source I know, does. --Snowleopard100 (talk) 17:40, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On April 4, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Cryptonanus, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 12:05, 4 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be OK to embolden the genus, if it was a monogypic genus. Snowman (talk) 12:48, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You can archive comments on your talk page, to keep it tidy. It is OK to delete what gets put on your talk page; however, some users prefer to use a archive so that a record of edits can be seen. Snowman (talk) 12:50, 22 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Please be careful when editing pages (such as Hyas (genus)). Other people may have edited the page between your edits. --Stemonitis (talk) 13:56, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yes thank you. How did you know so soon? And will this page that I researched be useful? I still couln't determine the subfamily.

cheers,Bruinfan12 (talk) 13:58, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

If you're asking how I found the correct family (or rather, up to date; Hyas was in Majidae in former times), it's because I keep copies of the papers I use a lot (including Ng et al., 2009 and De Grave et al., 2009) with me, on a memory stick. Not all families are divided into subfamilies, so there may be nothing to discover there. Oregoniidae is pretty small (4 genera; 20 species, including fossils), but will be significant because it includes Chionoecetes (an article which needs expanding, and which is probably out of date). Your article is certainly useful; don't be disheartened. --Stemonitis (talk) 14:04, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the encouragement. Should I add the subfamily in the taxbox?

Oregoniidae does not appear to have been divided into subfamilies, so there's nothing to add. I think the taxobox is probably complete now; there are no synonyms listed for Hyas, and the full species list is in the text already. --Stemonitis (talk) 14:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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I expanded the article that you started Heterobranchus bidorsalis and nominated it for DYK with you in the credits. Joe Chill (talk) 20:12, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

-- Cirt (talk) 18:04, 26 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy.

When I saw Mitchell's Water Monitor in new pages, at first I thought that it might be a hoax! We have such a lot of stupid articles created. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn't, and that there are plenty of reliable sources out there; that's why I quickly added a bit, so that it wouldn't be tagged by others.

As a tip; in future, you might consider working on new articles in a user-space draft, and then moving them over to the live area when they are ready - that avoids problems with people spotting a new, unreferenced page and marking it for deletion, etc.

There is also another benefit; if you can make an article larger than 1500B - that is, about 3 paragraphs - then you can submit it as a "Did you know..." entry, and if approved, it will appear on the main page of Wikipedia, and be seen by thousands. But, to qualify, you have to submit it within 5 days of creating the live article. In the case of this specific one, that's probably quite easy. But in general, it is easier to achieve if you make a draft first.

Anyway - glad to see that you are developing it. There is plenty in this book, which could be used.

Oh - and you might notice I used a 'named reference', which allows you to use the same reference many times without the repetition. Please, see this edit. For more help on that, see user:chzz/help/ref.

Cheers,  Chzz  ►  12:12, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:USERSPACEDRAFT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds

You're quite welcome - happy to be of help. I'm afraid I'm not the most scientifically minded individual; from what I can see they look good. Keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:28, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

One way to do this is to look for redlinks. If you start at the Reptile article and click on one of the "included groups" in the infobox or on the taxonomy chart you will get to the next taxonomic group down. Keep repeating this all the way down to species. Any group or species that is redlinked is ripe for you to write about. SpinningSpark 16:35, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No worries - it was just a small punctuation fix.

Excellent work; it's always heartening to see something Papua New Guinea-related come up in the newpage list. Keep up the good work, and happy editing! --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 13:44, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Bruinfan, I've just had the pleasure of reading one of your articles at newpage patrol, and as you've clearly mastered the art of creating referenced articles on notable subjects I've taken the liberty of flagging your account as WP:Autopatrolled. Cheers and happy editing. ϢereSpielChequers 13:50, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! Only administrators, can delete pages, and I am not one of them. However, an admin named Stemonitis has already deleted it. Cheers, --The High Fin Sperm Whale 14:49, 22 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, Bruinfan12. Thanks for the note. I made a couple more fixes to the article. I know a lot about the formatting at Wikipedia but not the snake. So if you keep adding material and references, I'll help with conforming to the style guidelines. Cheers. Jason Quinn (talk) 15:17, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem at all - nice that it's been found useful. SP-KP (talk) 18:15, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

User:Obsidian Soul noticed you created Batagurinae. We are having a discussion over at WP:TURTLES intialially about subfamily Geoemydinae but Batagurinae is a related subject. Your input would be welcome. Regards, SunCreator ^(talk) 22:50, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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They ended up deleting it, but I thin it can be revived as the main Thai language article is getting quite long. This could be splitered off. Bruinfan12 (talk) 18:14, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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