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== Taxonbar ==

The RFC on the above template has now closed with an unanimous vote for its use. Therefore editors can now use the template, but please see these comments;
* Database links used as references should not be deleted if taxonbar is added.
* The resulting look can be customized with comments.
* Do not use use the outdated The Plant List or the non-functional COL.
* Use with care when there is a taxonomic opinion that may result in two legitimate taxon pages for the same organism.
See [https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies:Requests_for_Comment here] for the vote and discussions. Hope this helps and thanks [[User:Andyboorman|Andyboorman]] ([[User talk:Andyboorman|talk]]) 17:19, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Andyboorman}} Somehow managed to miss all this - it wasn't very well advertised! Obviously I can't change the result, but would like to suggest that ITIS, which like The Plant List or the non-functional COL is outdated, be excluded as well - [[User:MPF|MPF]] ([[User talk:MPF|talk]]) 23:44, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
::{{ping|Andyboorman}} also IOC (birds) and BSBI (plants) need to be added - [[User:MPF|MPF]] ([[User talk:MPF|talk]]) 23:59, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
:::{{ping|MPF}} Sorry you missed the RFC, it was advertised on the Pump. I am not an immediate user, but I gather that it can be customised easily. [[User:Andyboorman|Andyboorman]] ([[User talk:Andyboorman|talk]]) 08:08, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
:::{{Reply to|MPF}} It was also highlighted in [[MediaWiki:Recentchangestext]]{{Sup|({{diff|8789964||8811181|Reversed diff}})}} (thus also visible on the [[Special:Recentchanges|Recent changes page]]) from May 13 up until today. –[[User:Tommy Kronkvist|Tommy Kronkvist]] ([[User talk:Tommy Kronkvist|talk]]), 09:24, 5 June 2022 (UTC).
*{{comment}} [https://species.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Module:Taxonbar/conf&diff=8792578&oldid=8747331 COL] have already been removed the 16 May. For ITIS if every one agrees, it is quite easy to remove it too. IOC and BSBI don't seems to have properties in Wikidata, therefore nothing we can do. [[User:Christian Ferrer|Christian Ferrer]] ([[User talk:Christian Ferrer|talk]]) 13:52, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
::::{{comment}} The "IBC" (International Bird Collection, was sold to eBird) site no longer exists, it now redirects to a section of "eBird" "only for suscribers", so, as "eBird" is already there, I propose to eliminate IBC from the taxonbar.--[[User:Hector Bottai|Hector Bottai]] ([[User talk:Hector Bottai|talk]]) 15:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

ITIS is [https://www.itis.gov/whatsnew.html regularly updated], but it is true that for many groups, it hasn't been updated recently. ITIS was a good resource in the early days of Wikipedia/Wikispecies, and The Plant List was also a good resource at the time it was released. It may be worth retaining taxonbar links to these databases for historical reasons (i.e., Wikispecies pages that haven't been updated in very long time may in fact be following ITIS or The Plant List). The taxonbar on en.wiki excludes government run databases from non-English speaking countries. As Wikispecies is multilingual, it might be appropriate to exclude government run databases from English speaking countries (such as ITIS); or should non-English databases be included?
It's certainly worth reviewing the databases supported by the Wikispecies version of the taxonbar. MoBotPF and PfaF aren't really taxonomic databases; they focus on uses of plants (as ornamentals in the case of MoBotPF). Steere isn't a taxonomic database; it's NYBG's specimen database. I'm not aware of any Wikidata properties for other specimen databases, but either Wikidata properties should be added for other major specimen repositories, or Steere should be excluded from the Wikispecies taxonbar (also, Steere links are currently broken, but that might be fixable). There are several databases for US states (not necessarily government run) which aren't very useful for Wikispecies: Calflora, Cal-IPC, CNPS, MichiganFlora, ODNR, WisFlora. [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 16:10, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
:I'd certainly agree that government-run databases should be excluded, as they are not independent authorities, but may have government-sponsored national agendas inappropriate to an international site like Wikispecies - [[User:MPF|MPF]] ([[User talk:MPF|talk]]) 11:23, 9 June 2022 (UTC)

== Distinguished author ==

Hello friends! I'm planning to write a new version of the [[Wikispecies:Distinguished author|Distinguished author section]] we show next to the "Species of the month" section on the [[Main Page]]. The [[Template:Distinguished author 2019-08|present one about Mary Agnes Chase]] was created way back in August 2019 and is based on an [[Template:Distinguished author 2016-08|even older one created in 2016]], so an update is long overdue. However there are [[:Category:Taxon authorities|more than 60,000 authors to chose from]] and I can't decide which one would be best. Any suggestions? –[[User:Tommy Kronkvist|Tommy Kronkvist]] ([[User talk:Tommy Kronkvist|talk]]), 18:33, 6 June 2022 (UTC).

:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Koepcke Maria Koepcke]
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilie_Snethlage Maria Emilie Snethlage]
:Pioneer women in Ornithology. [[User:Hector Bottai|Hector Bottai]] ([[User talk:Hector Bottai|talk]]) 20:54, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
::George Washington Carver, The Peanut Wizard - just a thought. [[User:Andyboorman|Andyboorman]] ([[User talk:Andyboorman|talk]]) 21:00, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
::: Adding Wikispecies links to the above authors, for the sake of consistency: [[Maria Koepcke]], [[Maria Emilie Snethlage]], [[George Washington Carver]].<br>–[[User:Tommy Kronkvist|Tommy Kronkvist]] ([[User talk:Tommy Kronkvist|talk]]), 00:58, 7 June 2022 (UTC).
:::: Phycologist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Mary_Drew-Baker Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker] (wikispecies: [[Kathleen Mary Drew]]), her research led to commercial cultivation of Nori. --[[User:Thiotrix|Thiotrix]] ([[User talk:Thiotrix|talk]]) 08:54, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
::::: [[:en:Richard Pyle|Richard Pyle]] (Wikispecies: {{a|Richard L. Pyle}}), not only the author of a lot of taxa and articles, he have also other competences such as the developpement of the [[:en:Pyle stop|Pyle stop]], he has competences in computer database systems for biodiversity information, he won the second place of 2015 [[:en:Ebbe Nielsen Challenge]], and he is involved in Zoobank. [[User:Christian Ferrer|Christian Ferrer]] ([[User talk:Christian Ferrer|talk]]) 10:46, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
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Thank you for all of your suggestions. I think I'll write a "Distinguished author" template for all of the above author's, and then present each of them on the Main Page – one after another – for about a month or so. The templates will all be listed on the [[Wikispecies:Distinguished author]] page within the next couple of days so that you guys can check them out and make improvements before they are "published" on the Main Page. Again, thanks! –[[User:Tommy Kronkvist|Tommy Kronkvist]] ([[User talk:Tommy Kronkvist|talk]]), 00:05, 15 June 2022 (UTC).

== Vernacular names of languages without ISO code ==

For languages without ISO code (mainly indigenous langages of people with lesser internet presence) is not possible to add their vernacular name of a species to {{tl|VN}} template, and the procedure mentioned in the template documentation and help page only tells how to add the language for a language already added to MediaWiki core (and thus already with ISO code), but not for more excluded languages without such ISO codes. This technicality worsen (in Wikimedia in general, not just in Wikispecies) the situation of exclusion of "non mainstream" languages in the internet and common knowledge.

Meanwhile these langauges do not get their own ISO code and added to MediaWiki translations, is possible to add their VN word below the VN template (in the VN section) to preserve and spread their own vernacular name of a species? [[User:Onwa|Onwa]] ([[User talk:Onwa|talk]]) 16:47, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Onwa}} ISO 639-3 codes are quite comprehensive for "non mainstream" languages. There's even one for the [[:en:Sentinelese language]], of which almost nothing is known by any non-Sentinelese. What language are you wanting to include? It may be listed under a different name in the ISO (we don't know what the Sentinelese call their but language, but if we did, the ISO listed name and code would likely be changed to reflect that). [[User:Plantdrew|Plantdrew]] ([[User talk:Plantdrew|talk]]) 01:13, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
::It's [[:d:Q5072718|chaná language]]. There isn't any ISO language code assigned to it yet. The last native speaker created with the help of a linguist some years ago [[:d:Q108289818|a dictionary]] which contains some entries about the native names of some local species. There is a work made by some individuals based on that dictionary called "Plantas medicinales del pueblo chaná" on the internet. [[User:Onwa|Onwa]] ([[User talk:Onwa|talk]]) 22:56, 11 June 2022 (UTC)


== Sofia Pereyaslawzewa ==
== Sofia Pereyaslawzewa ==
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:Since we haven't gotten any consensus yet... I'm leaning towards "Sofia Mikhailovna Pereyaslavtseva" personally, but I'm honestly not satisified myself this is necessarily the best transliteration at all. (especially since IFPNI Staff already gave what the ISO 9 spelling would be) Some English-language books. journals and websites seem to prefer "Sofia [Sof'ia] Mikhailovna Pereiaslavtseva" (e.g. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FlxsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT1133 The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science]), while [http://turbellaria.umaine.edu/history/index.php?action=4&aut_id=5 this website on Turbellaria] for instance prefers instead "Sophia Mikhailovna Pereyaslawzewa" (noting she used "Sophie Pereyaslawzewa" in French articles). [[User:Monster Iestyn|Monster Iestyn]] ([[User talk:Monster Iestyn|talk]]) 21:54, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
:Since we haven't gotten any consensus yet... I'm leaning towards "Sofia Mikhailovna Pereyaslavtseva" personally, but I'm honestly not satisified myself this is necessarily the best transliteration at all. (especially since IFPNI Staff already gave what the ISO 9 spelling would be) Some English-language books. journals and websites seem to prefer "Sofia [Sof'ia] Mikhailovna Pereiaslavtseva" (e.g. [https://books.google.com/books?id=FlxsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT1133 The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science]), while [http://turbellaria.umaine.edu/history/index.php?action=4&aut_id=5 this website on Turbellaria] for instance prefers instead "Sophia Mikhailovna Pereyaslawzewa" (noting she used "Sophie Pereyaslawzewa" in French articles). [[User:Monster Iestyn|Monster Iestyn]] ([[User talk:Monster Iestyn|talk]]) 21:54, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

== New Species wiki user question- large species list ==

For genus [[Crepidotus]], I noticed there were only 3 species listed. There are hundreds according to [http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp Species Fungorum]] (search crepidotus). Would it be proper to include the entire list (minus varieties) in the Species field? [[User:Mariasmesserly|Mariasmesserly]] ([[User talk:Mariasmesserly|talk]]) 20:21, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
:Not all the list, as many are shown as synonyms, for example [http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=184740 ''Crepidotus alpiniae'']. [[User:Andyboorman|Andyboorman]] ([[User talk:Andyboorman|talk]]) 21:37, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

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== Jing Wang author ==
== Jing Wang author ==
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== [[Help:Author Names]] ==
== [[Help:Author Names]] ==

Hello, I made a suggestion to add a few text in the help page, see [[Help talk:Author Names#Proposal to add instruction]]. [[User:Christian Ferrer|Christian Ferrer]] ([[User talk:Christian Ferrer|talk]]) 09:06, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I made a suggestion to add a few text in the help page, see [[Help talk:Author Names#Proposal to add instruction]]. [[User:Christian Ferrer|Christian Ferrer]] ([[User talk:Christian Ferrer|talk]]) 09:06, 9 July 2022 (UTC)


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