User talk:SandKitty256
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This wiki specializes in taxonomy and nomenclature. You are invited to check out Felidae pages and contribute. Neferkheperre (talk) 17:39, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
Acinonychinae now part of Felinae?[edit]
Hello. Can you please add a verifiable reference for this edit claiming that "Acinonychinae is now part of Felinae"? Thank you, and best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 17:27, 5 December 2017 (UTC).
- @Tommy Kronkvist:The following reference describes the data supporting the new taxonomy:
- https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/32616/A_revised_Felidae_Taxonomy_CatNews.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- I was not sure how the referencing syntax is different here than in Wikipedia, could you please help me with that? SandKitty256 (talk) 17:33, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'm on it. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 17:56, 5 December 2017 (UTC).
- @Tommy Kronkvist: Does this look good? SandKitty256 (talk) 18:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
- No, not really... We generally don't specify lineages and such "finer" details, first of all because they don't correspond to any true taxon rank, but also because it tends to clutter up the Taxonavigation sections and lessens legibility. Unfortunately the Wikispecies help document on Taxonavigation section formatting is still rather crude and indeed not very helpful, but I guess you could use the Pantherinae page as an example. I'm currently preparing a reference template for the Cat News publication in your link, and will add it to the relevant pages when ready (in about 15 minutes or so). However it will take a day or two for me to create the corresponding Wikispecies' pages for all of the authors mentioned in the citation. I currently suffer from the flu, so thinking clearly is an arduous task... :-) Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 18:40, 5 December 2017 (UTC).
- @Tommy Kronkvist: Does this look good? SandKitty256 (talk) 18:08, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'm on it. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 17:56, 5 December 2017 (UTC).
- PS. We generally don't use "cite journal" type references in Wikispecies. Instead we create a specific template for each reference, with it's own Wikispecies page, and links that data to wherever it is needed. The reason is that the same references are often used in a whole bunch of pages. For instance, the "Kitchener et al., 2017" reference for Felidae will eventually be used on a few taxon pages, but also on all of the 23 author pages that links to it. Hence using one specific template for that very reference is a lot easier than adding separate "cite journal" templates to 20+ pages. If we need to update the data in the future—say, the PDF link is altered—then it's a lot more convenient to make all corrections only to the
{{Kitchener et al., 2017}}template, rather than on every single one of the 20+ pages a corresponding "cite journal" template would be used. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 19:19, 5 December 2017 (UTC).
- PS. We generally don't use "cite journal" type references in Wikispecies. Instead we create a specific template for each reference, with it's own Wikispecies page, and links that data to wherever it is needed. The reason is that the same references are often used in a whole bunch of pages. For instance, the "Kitchener et al., 2017" reference for Felidae will eventually be used on a few taxon pages, but also on all of the 23 author pages that links to it. Hence using one specific template for that very reference is a lot easier than adding separate "cite journal" templates to 20+ pages. If we need to update the data in the future—say, the PDF link is altered—then it's a lot more convenient to make all corrections only to the
- @Tommy Kronkvist: Thank you so much for clarifying this. I will create the separate reference templates from now on. I have simplified the genus list on Felinae. SandKitty256 (talk) 19:49, 5 December 2017 (UTC)