User talk:Kadellar

Welcome to Wikispecies!

Hello, and welcome to Wikispecies! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages you might like to see:

• Help:Contents provides a good introduction to editing Wikispecies.
• Templates are there to help you following syntax and formatting rules.
• Have a look at Done and to do.

If you have named a taxon, then it is likely that there is (or will be) a Wikispecies page about you, and other pages about your published papers. Please see our advice and guidance for taxon authors.

If you have useful images to contribute to Wikispecies, please upload them at Wikimedia Commons. This is also true for video or audio files containing bird songs, whale vocalization, etc.

Please sign your comments on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your username (if you're logged in) and the date. Please also read the Wikispecies policy What Wikispecies is not. If you need help, ask me on my talk page, or in the Village Pump. Again, welcome! -- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:45, 19 March 2018 (UTC)

Format and syntax

Hello, and thank you for your edits! However, you should be aware that Wikispecies is quite different from Wikipedia: please see What Wikispecies is not for details. Also, here are a few other points to assist you in your future contributions:

• Please be aware that per a per Village Pump poll result some time ago, we should never manually add the BASEPAGENAME magic word to Wikispecies any more. It's still used by some parts of the automated server software, but should never be manually used by us humans.
• We never use the Wikipedia style <ref>…</ref> or {{Cite web}} type references. They are very common in Wikipedia but doesn't suite our purposes nearly as well here at Wikispecies. Instead we use our own system, as described on Help:Reference section. (If you're interested in some of the underlying reasons why WP style citation is not recommended you can read about it in the archived Village Pump talks about the Reference Format, which ends in a poll about the References format, but please be advised that it is a fairly long and to some extent also rather technical document. To make things even trickier, that whole issue involves older discussions that had already taken place when it was finally time to put our preferred manual of style for references out to vote, and most of those older discussions are not linked in the above mentioned document.
• Please also refer to the above mentioned Help:Reference section when linking to author pages. We don't use common Wikimedia style [[bracketed links]] for author names, instead we use the {{A}} templates (for linked author names) and {{Aut}} templates (for author names that aren't linked).

Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 02:49, 2 October 2019 (UTC).