User talk:TheTechnician27/Archives/2023/October

John Contrane reverts

Your recent revert removed a lot of important data, such as the archiving of URLs, as only one example. Please go back and correct your revert and only remove the material you want. Viriditas (talk) 23:31, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

No idea how that happened! Will do, sorry! TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 23:32, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

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Great work!

Hi TheTechnician27, thanks for all your help in converting manual taxoboxes to their automated equivalents (Speciesbox or Automated taxobox). Together we are making great progress! When you do these conversions, don't forget to also replace the "binomial=" field with "taxon =" (unless the genus needs to be defined separately due to disambiguators, where we then use a combination of "genus =" and "species =" fields) in the new taxobox.

Although the taxobox will initially work without the "taxon=" field, it does so only by using the page title as the taxon name. As this can later fail if the page is moved to a new title, pages without this field in their automated taxobox will show up in the tracking category Category:Taxobox cleanup. Similarly, the field "binomial=" is not recognised as a valid field in the automated taxobox system, which also creates an error tracking entry.

If you have any questions for taxobox conversions, don't hesitate to ask!.

'Cheers, Loopy30 (talk) 20:38, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

@Loopy30: That makes sense, thanks! I'd seen a few transclusions make use of 'genus=' and 'species=' together while doing this, so I eventually figured that was the correct way to do Speciesboxes. I'll read up on the documentation. For instance, I didn't know there was a manual 'parent=' parameter for Speciesboxes. It's long lost on me which it was, but there was a Speciesbox where I should've used the subgenus as the parent manually. Appreciate it. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 04:05, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Using a combination of "genus=" and "species=" to replace "binomial=" is also a valid alternative to using "taxon=" within a Speciesbox. Several other editors use this as their default style in creating new taxoboxes. It is also needed when the parent taxon needs to be disambiguated such as at Australian green tree frog (Ranoidea can refer to either a genus or a superfamily of frogs).

The manual "parent=" parameter is used for monotypic parent taxa (example).

Loopy30 (talk) 10:39, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

"parent_authority" (and "grandparent_authority") is used for the authority of monotypic parent taxa. "parent=" is used for subgenera (and other ranks between species and genus; plant sections, species groups). I prefer "genus=" and "species=" rather than "taxon=" in speciesboxes (since the two parameter route is required when disambiguation is needed); genus+species is used in slightly more speciesboxes than taxon (154k use genus+species, 133k use taxon), although usage of genus+species vs. taxon varies in different groups of organisms depending on which editors have been implementing automatic taxoboxes for a particular group. Plantdrew (talk) 03:30, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Please note that in taxonomy templates, the rank value should be lower-case Latin, e.g. "genus" not "Genus", "familia" not "Family". The system may appear to work otherwise, but the full range of checks can't be applied. Peter coxhead (talk) 12:57, 12 September 2023 (UTC)