User talk:Harrytudor

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Harrytudor! Thank you for your contributions. I am Nick Moyes and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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A page you started (Bryx analicarens) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Bryx analicarens, Harrytudor!

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It would be nice if you were to add the synonym, Syngnathus analicarens, to the Infobox.

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Nick Moyes (talk) 09:24, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Bryx dunckeri) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Bryx dunckeri, Harrytudor!

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Please add synonym to infobox, and I'd suggest replacing the IUCN Category you've used with the next tier down, namely "List of least concern fishes"

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Nick Moyes (talk) 09:32, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Taxobar

Hi, thanks for the question! It's a bit cumbersome.

Wikipedia doesn't hold species information-it's held by Wikipedia's sister project Wikidata, which holds structured data. A bot system should automatically add links, but it tends to wait a while (I think sometimes a few months). You can speed things up if you want. Wikidata isn't the easiest thing to edit, but fortunately a lot of coverage has already been added by bot. Just go to Wikidata and type in the species/genus/whatever name in the search bar to find its page. If it's there, add your article by going to the "Wikipedia" part of the page, selecting edit, adding en in the blank field, put the species name in and save. Here's an example of that. (Some other language Wikipedias are ahead of us on species coverage because they've encouraged automated article creation from lists. You'll often see Cebuano, Winaray and Vietnamese articles already.) This won't work in complicated cases like where there is a species name dispute - in that case I would leave well alone.

Now with this method the English-language Wikipedia page doesn't automatically update with taxon information immediately - you can force it, I've done this for your pages so you can see what this looks like. What you do is go to your page, click edit, and then change the URL so that it says not "action=edit" at the end but "action=purge". Hit enter and yes. Everything should be filled out. Otherwise a bot tends to purge in a few days.

Again, this isn't automatically necessary for species - Wikidata has a bot system that normally adds species pages. But it often leaves pages for a month or two rather than doing it immediately. It's worth doing manually for families and genuses often, though. I also sometimes manually examine and link pages (I do a lot of new page review) if I'm suspicious that a species is not widely accepted or synonymous with something else (a big problem).

As personal comment (and I've reviewed over 4500 pages on Wikipedia since joining in 2013), I think that we've had huge problems managing articles on little-known species, and so if a species has been reclassified (new genus, subspecies split into species, subspecies now not accepted etc.) it's essential to very, very clearly explain what the history of classification of an organism is - if a species was once thought of as being in a different genus or whatever it's really important to put that in the text and cite articles that explain the name change. A lot of species article writers in the past have created confusion and duplicate articles by being unwilling to even admit anyone could ever have thought differently to them! Blythwood (talk) 17:05, 3 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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A page you started (Campichthys tryoni) has been reviewed!

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Reviewed, well done!

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SamHolt6 (talk) 17:30, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Choeroichthys brachysoma) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Choeroichthys brachysoma, Harrytudor!

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Just a few points on style: inline citations should go after punctuation marks, not before, and beware of WP:OVERLINKing commonly understood or very broad terms like countries.

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--Animalparty! (talk) 19:43, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Notopogon xenosoma) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Notopogon xenosoma, Harrytudor!

Wikipedia editor Animalparty just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

Avoid using bare URLs for references, as they can easily break, and do not indicate full source. Citation templates like {{cite web}} or {{cite book}} are helpful, see also {{FishBase}}.

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--Animalparty! (talk) 00:52, 17 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Corythoichthys paxtoni) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating Corythoichthys paxtoni, Harrytudor!

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Thanks for creating this! If you could look at the changes I made to the article so you can better make articles in the future, that would be great.

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RileyBugz^会話_投稿記録 17:46, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A page you started (Halicampus boothae) has been reviewed!

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SamHolt6 (talk) 17:33, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

February 2018

Hello, I'm Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions —specifically this edit to Réunion seahorse— because it did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Shellwood (talk) 20:57, 13 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hippocampus dahli

Hi, thanks for all your recent seahorse articles! I was just adding links and trying to link this one up with other articles but I think some sources may treat this species as synonymous with Hippocampus trimaculatus–other languages' Wikipedia pages on the topic just redirect to that. Do you have sources on whether they're separate species or not? Blythwood (talk) 22:03, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Blythwood: Hi there! What I understand is that the specimens of H. dahli identified off of Australia are genetically different enough from H. trimaculatus to justify a different species name. However, specimens from other areas that have previously been called H. dahli don't show the same genetic difference, so they are treated as H. trimaculatus (which is where I think the confusion comes in). It's all a bit up in the air and warrants further investigation, however I thought it was reasonable for this species to have its own page because the most recent IUCN red list assessment (2017) saw the Australian population as a unique species, and assessed it as such. For further information on this I would look at my first reference on the H. dahli page, which is the 2017 IUCN assessment. Thanks a lot! Harrytudor (talk) 01:46, 28 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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