Portal:Taxonomy

Existing template

 * Species name
 * Usage: [[File:U+2192.svg]]
 * Effects: Italicization, links to the English Wikipedia and the Commons.


 * taxon
 * Usage: or  [[File:U+2192.svg]]  or.
 * Effects:
 * Text remains identical to original text.
 * Links to Wikipedia (in-text) and to Wikispecies and the Commons (in a little floating box on the right).
 * Eventually, this could add categories (e.g. Category:Panthera tigris) following the scheme in the WikiMedia Commons, allowing users to quickly find every page in
 * Concerns:
 * What about cases where you want to link to both the common name (e.g. "tiger") as well as the Latin binomial ("Panthera tigris")? Should we support ? I think that makes the whole template very complicated (and perhaps we could have an 'advanced' template which supports some or all of this?
 * Possibly solution: two templates, one of which assumes valid taxonomic name (taxon) and the other one assuming a species name . The latter will always italicize its name, so it can handle both Panthera tigris as well as Panthera sp.

Relevant Wikisource content

 * Taxonomic descriptions
 * Should be classified under Category:Species descriptions.
 * Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, tenth edition (1758)
 * On the cultivation of the plants belonging to the natural order of Proteeae (1809)
 * The Salticidae (Spiders) of Panama (1946)


 * Floras and faunas
 * A specimen of the botany of New Holland (1793)
 * Flora Graeca (1806-1840)
 * An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions (1913)


 * Field notes
 * Field Notes of Junius Henderson (1905-1931)


 * By author
 * Category:Biologists
 * Category:Botanists
 * Category:Zoologists


 * Popular science
 * The Mantis, or Praying Insect from Popular Science Monthly, April 1874.

Interested users

 * Gaurav (talk) 23:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Robgur (talk) 06:42, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Daniel Mietchen - WiR/OS (talk) 22:58, 31 March 2012 (UTC)