User talk:YuriNikolai

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Basepagename

Hello YuriNikolai, and thank you for your contributions! In regards to the Eratigena agrestis page you recently created, please note that as the result of a user poll in February 2017, we shouldn't use "BASEPAGENAME" in Wikispecies. Instead the actual page name is recommended, and as a result I've made some edits to the Eratigena agrestis page. (My edit also regards the format of the author names, so please have a look at the link.)

For reference, you can read more about the Wikispecies poll about removing BASEPAGENAME here.

On a broader note, you may know that BASEPAGENAME is one of many so called "magic words" used by the MediaWiki software (which runs all of the MediaWiki wikis, including Wikispecies). You can read more about magic word here (enWP) and here (ptWP).

–Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 11:00, 12 September 2021 (UTC).

Tommy Kronkvist Thank you for the heads up and the corrections, i wasn't aware of the poll! I actually created that page copying and adapting from different species pages in the same genus, so I'll go ahead and fix those as well since some others are still using that magic word, which made me assume it was standard practice since it was in the first page i landed on. YuriNikolai (talk) 00:18, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Good work! By the way many of our users are unaware of the BASEPAGENAME policy, because quite frankly most of the Wikispecies help files are very outdated. Also, after the poll we had a bot that converted many of the BASEPAGENAME issues, but in some taxon pages the page code is complicated or contain other unorthodox elements. That can make it hard for a bot to fix it without adding other (and worse) errors in the process. Hence some of those old pages still use BASEPAGENAME. The more experienced users tend to fix it when they come across them, but I don't think we have any users who is specifically hunting down and removing BASEPAGENAME from taxon pages.

Last note: The BASEPAGENAME magic word is allowed in Wikispecies, but it's important to know that it should only be added by bots or templates. For example it's used in publication references like the {{Bolzern & Jäger, 2015}} template (code seen here), which is then added to taxon pages. But it's exclusively and (semi-)automatically added to those references by templates. It should never be added "manually" by us humans. Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 12:24, 13 September 2021 (UTC).