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Change of importance rating of Mitigation for several projects

Hi Awkwafaba, Why did you change the importance ratings of Mitigation from mid and low to high for 6 projects without obvious discussion. Are you a member of all those projects? · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 07:51, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

@Pbsouthwood: there is no requirement, nor consensus, that one needs to be a member of a project to rate it. Also one can always Be Bold and make changes without discussing everything. The page has a huge amount of traffic, which is what many WPs use to inform the importance rating. If you feel the article should be rated differently, then change it. Unless you would prefer to have discussions at each wikiproject first. Cheers. --awkwafaba (📥) 13:00, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I am fairly sure this is all explained somewhere, but I don't remember where at the moment.
There is no requirement to be a member of any project to rate class/quality, that is a relatively objective assessment, with written criteria, and any competent person can apply those criteria and arrive at a quality assessment that is likely to be acceptable. Even an automated system can get it close enough much of the time. Importance rating to a project is relative to project goals, and has no necessary connection to importance to anyone else, and traffic is not usually relevant, and it is usual to not make startling changes to importance rating for projects in which you are not active, like a change from low to high. I have changed the importance ratings back. In the case of the projects in which I am active, because I think your ratings were inappropriate for those projects, and for the others because someone else rated them differently and I respect their good faith assessment of the article's importance to those projects.
I suggest that in future you only re-rate importance for projects where you have sufficient familiarity with project goals and some personal experience. By all means suggest a change on the article talk page, or at the project talk page if you think the currently rated importance should be reconsidered. If you are the original rater for a project, then you have more leeway to be bold, as you would not be overruling the opinion of someone who has the experience to make a more appropriate choice, but it remains preferable to take project goals into account. If you feel that any user should be allowed to decide on importance for any project, regardless of familiarity with the goals of the project, or that traffic counts over a short period should overrule or decide the project goals, please open a RfC to test consensus. For projects where you are a member, go ahead and rate according to project guidelines. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 14:38, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

PS: an average of 130 page views per day over the last month is not a large amount of traffic by Wikipedia standards. Coronavirus disease 2019 has a huge amount of traffic. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 15:00, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

@Pbsouthwood: Leaving importance as blank is the correct rating 0% of the time. Selecting an importance, even by chance, is correct 25%. If a member of the project needs to adjust later, they did not have to do any additional work. They either change it from a blank or change it from an incorrect value. I think, from my history, that I have more than a 25% chance of getting it right. The rule of thumb I have seen for traffic relating to importance for the majority of projects is 0-10 views per day is low, 10-100 is mid, and over 100 is high. There are exceptions, sure, but again it's a rough guideline. There are far more unrated pages than editors willing to check them. Pushing that pile down only helps. --awkwafaba (📥) 17:42, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

1. Leaving it blank is also wrong 0% of the time.
   As I said, setting importance that has not already been set is a place you can be bold, preferably with discretion and some common sense. I would not have commented at all if you had merely set importance where none had been set before, except to discuss a possible change if I thought it should be different, even for a project of which I am a member. Also, and more importantly, the original point was that setting importance to something different when it has already been set, requires a greater level of competence, since it is reasonably likely to be right already, and changing it arbitrarily (without sufficient knowledge of the project's goals) is more likely to be wrong than right. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 18:51, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
2. Do you have a reference for this rule of thumb of pageviews being a valid indicator of article importance for a project? · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 18:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
3. The majority of articles of interest to any given project are rated low importance by that project. I hesitate to claim an average or characteristic value, since the variation could be very large, so will use a familiar example. In WPSCUBA, there are 11 top importance, 82 high importance, 143 mid importance, 842 low importance, and 226 not applicable for a total of 1,304 articles. A bit of simple math will show that assessing as low importance has a better than 50% chance of being correct, while high importance has a less than 10% chance of being correct. Selecting at random should give an equal probability of any of the possible importance ratings, so a 1 in 5 chance of selecting low importance, and a 4 in 5 chance of selecting an option with a lower probability of correctness. This shows that it is better to arbitrarily select low importance than to rely on chance, even if you used a true random selection. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 05:48, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
4. Please indicate what, in your history, shows that your importance assessments are likely to be correct more than 25% of the time. · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 06:06, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

These are relevant:

• Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Release_Version_Criteria#Importance_of_topic.
• Wikipedia:Content_assessment#Importance_assessment
• Wikipedia:Content_assessment#Statistics. Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 09:25, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

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April 2020—Issue 013

Tree of Life

Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Danuvius guggenmosi by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by J Milburn Neanderthal by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Homo luzonensis by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Lythronax by FunkMonk, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Ichthyovenator by PaleoGeekSquared, reviewed by FunkMonk Secretarybird by LittleJerry, Aa77zz and Casliber, reviewed by The Rambling Man James John Joicey by RLO1729, reviewed by The Rambling Man Homo naledi by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Jens Lallensack Vermilion flycatcher by CaptainEek, reviewed by HickoryOughtShirt?4 Canada lynx by Sainsf, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Alice Gray by Rhododendrites, reviewed by The Rambling Man Caryodendron orinocense by CPC273, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Jaguarundi by Sainsf, reviewed by Usernameunique Gigantopithecus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Starsandwhales Denisovan by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Starsandwhales Disease X by Britishfinance, reviewed by DannyS712

Newly nominated content

Lythronax by FunkMonk, Lythronaxargestes and IJReid Ichthyovenator by PaleoGeekSquared Neanderthal by Dunkleosteus77 Alpine newt by Tylototriton Secretarybird by LittleJerry, Aa77zz and Casliber List of ursids by PresN Borchgrevinkium by Super Dromaeosaurus Caryodendron orinocense by CPC273 Siamosaurus by PaleoGeekSquared Canada lynx by Sainsf Vietnam mouse-deer by Sainsf Jaguarundi by Sainsf Vermilion flycatcher by CaptainEek Alice Gray by Rhododendrites Gigantopithecus by Dunkleosteus77 Paleobiota of the Posidonia Shale by Yewtharaptor Meerkat by Sainsf

News at a glance

• WikiProject Birds gained a new task force. A discussion determined that WikiProject Poultry might be more successful as a task force, with the move completed 15 April.
• Round 2 of the WikiCup wrapped up this month. Several editors moved on to Round 3 by scoring points in biodiversity-related areas, including Sainsf, Casliber, Dunkleosteus77, CaptainEek, Guettarda, and Enwebb. Dunkleosteus77 finished at the top of the Tree of Life pack with 608 points, finishing 9th overall in the round.
• After a relatively quiet February and March, with only 11 total articles nominated for GA and none for FAC, April brought a shower of nominations. In total, 5 articles were nominated for FAC, 1 for FLC, and 11 for GA.

Tree of Life's growing featured content

Inspired by a March 2020 post at WikiProject Medicine detailing the growth of Featured Articles over time, we decided to reproduce that table here, adding a second table showing the growth of Good Articles. Tree of Life articles are placed in the "Biology" category for FAs, which has seen a growth of 381% since 2008. Only two other subjects had a greater growth than Biology: Business, economics, and finance; and Warfare.

Percentage Growth in FA Categories, 2008–2019, Legend:

Considerably above average, Above average, Average

Below average , Considerably below average, Poor

Featured Article Category as of	Feb 23, 2008	Sep 16, 2008	Sep 16, 2010	Dec 1, 2011	Jan 1, 2015	Jan 1, 2020	Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2011	Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2020
Art, architecture and archaeology	65	72	117	128	175	271	97%	317%
Awards, decorations and vexillology	24	26	28	27	26	24	1.3%	0%
Biology	130	155	261	326	456	625	151%	381%
Business, economics and finance	16	19	22	44	73	116	175%	625%
Chemistry and mineralogy	29	31	34	37	40	46	28%	59%
Computing	17	17	17	18	16	14	5.9%	−18%
Culture and society	40	48	61	65	77	104B	63%	160%
Education	30	34	36	38	40	40	27%	33%
Engineering and technology	35	37	38	40	43	49	14%	40%
Food and drink	11	11	9	13	17	21B	18%	91%
Geography and places	148	158	181	185	213	232	25%	57%
Geology and geophysics	9	12	18	20	23	29	122%	222%
Health and medicine	31	36	42	43	51	52	39%	68%
History	146	154	189	201	239	308	38%	111%
Language and linguistics	17	15	13	13	12	15	−24%	−12%
Law	29	34	41	49	65	72	69%	148%
Literature and theatre	108	134	161	191	258	316B	77%	193%
Mathematics	13	14	19	17	18	18	31%	38%
Media	159	171	221	231	324	424	45%	167%
Meteorology	61	78	111	126	147	168	107%	175%
Music	153	182	232	254	331	398	66%	160%
Philosophy and psychology	12	13	12	12	12	14	0%	17%
Physics and astronomy	67	82	98	101	127	153	51%	128%
Politics and government	62	67	98	117	166	217	89%	250%
Religion, mysticism and mythology	36	44	73	84	105	121	133%	236%
Royalty, nobility and heraldry	75	90	94	108	124	173	44%	131%
Sport and recreation	119	162	268	298	365	449	150%	277%
Transport	47	74	107	128	171	213	172%	353%
Video gaming	72	96	127	137	180	222	90%	208%
Warfare	145	173	318	366	537	729	152%	403%
Total	1,906	2,239	3,046	3,417	4,431	5,695 A	79.3%	198.8%

• Note A: Total is off by one; not worth looking for the error.
• Note B Three food biographies moved [1] per discussion at WT:FAC
• Note: The very odd dates used in earlier years result from pulling old data from the talk page at WP:FAS.

Good Article Category as of	Feb 23, 2008	Sep 16, 2008	Sep 16, 2010	Dec 1, 2011	Jan 1, 2015	Jan 1, 2020	Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2011	Pct chg Feb 2008 to 2020
Agriculture, food and drink	27	34	37	55	113	226	104%	737%
Art and architecture	134	188	321	450	683	1022	236%	663%
Engineering and technology	256	396	882	1198	1828	2407	368%	840%
Geography and places	191	248	424	523	716	1052	174%	451%
History	261	312	651	825	1219	1894	216%	626%
Language and literature	173	215	377	462	686	982	167%	468%
Mathematics	19	22	27	30	36	67	58%	253%
Media and drama	403	658	1352	1300	3070	3961	223%	883%
Music	357	527	997	1437	2532	3892	303%	990%
Natural sciences	544	686	1275	1717	2404	3426	216%	530%
Philosophy and religion	134	174	244	294	365	557	119%	316%
Social sciences and society	468	549	790	998	1430	1854	113%	296%
Sports and recreation	384	546	1074	1402	2350	3802	265%	890%
Video games	168	220	373	443	684	1349	164%	703%
Warfare	155	241	989	1654	2544	3996	967%	2478%
Total	3674	5016	9813	12788	20660	30487	248%	730%
Organisms*	119	130	402	528	685	1017	344%	755%

*subset of natural sciences

Unsurprisingly, the number of GAs has increased more rapidly than the number of FAs. Organisms, which is a subcategory of Natural sciences, has seen a GA growth of 755% since 2008, besting the Natural sciences overall growth of 530%. While Warfare had far and away the most significant growth of GAs, it's a clear outlier relative to other categories.

April DYKs

Jenny

White-throated round-eared bat

Formica fusca ants tending mealybugs

• ... that the human-like behaviour of Jenny (depicted), a resident of London Zoo, reinforced Charles Darwin's view that humans were "created from animals"? (3 April)
• ... that white-throated round-eared bats (example pictured) roost in cavities in active termite mounds excavated by the males? (4 April)
• ... that flatter mires in montane regions of Europe are often dominated by deergrass and cottongrass? (5 April)
• ... that the white-browed tit-warbler has been found to practice cooperative breeding? (6 April)
• ... that most species in the palm genus Desmoncus climb using grappling hook–like structures called acanthopylls? (7 April)
• ... that some ants herd scale insects (example pictured)? (10 April)
• ... that birds, bats and humans are the main hosts of members of the bed bug family? (12 April)
• ... that the sponge Aplysina cavernicola (pictured) has been used as a model organism to monitor the presence of isotopes such as americium-241 in seawater? (16 April)
• ... that although the alpine bartsia has a wide range in Europe and North America, it is known in the British Isles only from a few locations in northern England and the central Scottish Highlands? (19 April)
• ... that the orange-band surgeonfish (pictured) can change colour from dark to light almost instantaneously? (21 April)
• ... that the parasitic greater broomrape usually grows on the roots of the common broom or the European gorse? (24 April)
• ... that the tree Macaranga triloba encourages the ants that defend it by providing them with food bodies? (25 April)
• ... that amateur entomologist James John Joicey had a collection of 1.5 million butterflies? (28 April)
• ... that the globe chamomile (pictured), a member of the daisy family native to South Africa, infests parts of Arizona and California? (28 April)
• ... that the bicoloured sedge (pictured) was part of an attempted botanical fraud? (30 April)

• 
  A. cavernicola
• 
  Orange-band surgeonfish
• 
  Bicoloured sedge
• 
  Globe chamomile blooms

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Animal products in pharmaceuticals

Hi Awkwafaba, Thank you so much for marking the "animal products in pharmaceuticals" page of interest to various Wikipedia projects. I am thinking of submitting this article soon as a stub. I saw from your user talk page that you have a lot of experience and was wondering if you had any tips? Thanks, Skubydoo (talk) 01:29, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

@Skubydoo: Happy to help. I'm glad you are writing the article. I know that there is, perhaps, not much on animal products in medication. The community tends to focus on food and other consumer products. Looking over the article now there are a few things you could work on.

You might want to create a section titled 'Specific ingredients' for the last three paragraphs. Also, check that the tone is encyclopedic throughout: Saying "This page discusses..." sounds more like a blog. As for content, are there any specific medicines that are animal-derived? You can also easily add information on eggs in vaccines and vitamin D3. And a picture is always nice to add.

It is a great start. I'll add it to my watchlist. Don't hesitate to ask more questions. Cheers. --awkwafaba (📥) 01:49, 29 March 2020 (UTC)

Dear Awkwafaba,

Thanks so much for these suggestions and much needed encouragement. I've added a little about vaccines and a section on "specific ingredients" as per your suggestions. There is a separate page on biologics that focuses on animal-derived medicine, and I don't want this page to be collapsed with that one so I haven't included medicines where the active ingredients are animal-derived on this page. I haven't included animal-derived vitamins for the same reason, although I am very interested in adding information on that to the existing pages on food fortification or biologics. Let me know if you have any feedback on the updated page. Still thinking about how to edit out "This page discusses" while retaining clarity.

Stay safe and well,

Skubydoo (talk) 03:57, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

@Skubydoo: looking at Draft:Animal Products in Pharmaceuticals and biologics, I don’t see much overlap. The latter, which redirects to Biopharmaceutical does not differentiate between plant, bacterial, human, or non-human animal sources. It seems that article mainly concentrates on bacterial products. I don’t think you’d have to worry about conflicting with that article. Also, information can be on multiple articles. I write many articles on different organisms, and when i get a source that states X eats/pollinates/etc. Y, I put it on both the X page and the Y page. --awkwafaba (📥) 12:38, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi there-- Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I think you have a good point about the biologics so I've gone ahead and included it. I was hoping to submit this draft so that I am not spending my time working on something that may ultimately be rejected. Do you have any advice on how to move forward? --Skubydoo (talk) 23:18, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

@Skubydoo: I think you need better sources. You need to go deeper than the encyclopedia. Try searching for some of the ingredients at Google Scholar or Google Books for more in-depth information to include. --awkwafaba (📥) 16:57, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

I think you're right that this article should go deeper into the scientific literature. Unfortunately, I don't have the background to do a good job incorporating this literature. Hopefully, after I submit someone else can come along and add this information. Thanks so much for your advice! Stay safe --Skubydoo (talk) 20:19, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, I just wanted to update you on the animal products in pharmaceuticals page. The page was declined because it mentions soap (a pharmaceutical according to the FDA) and fortification (that is a valid point and I deleted it.) I didn't realize that the page needs a stub tag in order to be considered a stub, so I added that after the page was declined. I think there's a lot of promise in this stub, but I am not sure if I need to resubmit the article for it to be considered a stub, or if there is another process. In any case, thank you so much for your help in getting it to where it is. Best wishes, Skubydoo (talk) 23:59, 7 May 2020 (UTC)

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ICTV links in taxonbar

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May 2020 Tree of Life Newsletter

May 2020—Issue 014

Tree of Life

Welcome to the Tree of Life newsletter!

Newly recognized content

Lythronax by FunkMonk, Lythronaxargestes and IJReid Meerkat by Sainsf, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Borchgrevinkium by Super Dromaeosaurus, reviewed by Amitchell125 Nakalipithecus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Gog the Mild Scanisaurus by Ichthyovenator, reviewed by Gog the Mild Sand cat by BhagyaMani, reviewed by Aven13 Pigs in culture by Chiswick Chap, reviewed by Sainsf Sun bear by Sainsf, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Megacephalosaurus by Macrophyseter, reviewed by Aven13 Cinnamon red bat by Enwebb, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Banteng by Sainsf, reviewed by Chiswick Chap Cartorhynchus by Lythronaxargestes, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Black-footed cat by BhagyaMani, reviewed by Amitchell125 Homo ergaster by Ichthyovenator, reviewed by Dunkleosteus77 Black coral by Aven13, reviewed by Sainsf Heuglin's gazelle by Sainsf, reviewed by The Rambling Man Australopithecus garhi by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by Hog Farm Chororapithecus by Dunkleosteus77, reviewed by IJReid Ornithocheiromorpha by JurassicClassic767, reviewed by IJReid

Newly nominated content

Gigantorhynchus by Mattximus Leech by LittleJerry, Chiswick Chap and Cwmhiraeth List of mephitids by PesN Sand cat by BhagyaMani Cinnamon red bat by Enwebb Kristianstad Basin by Ichthyovenator Nakalipithecus by Dunkleosteus77 Scanisaurus by Ichthyovenator Sun bear by Sainsf Heuglin's gazelle by Sainsf Black coral by Aven13 Australopithecus garhi by Dunkleosteus77 Chororapithecus by Dunkleosteus77 Northern crested newt by Tylototriton Megacephalosaurus by Macrophyseter Banteng by Sainsf Cartorhynchus by Lythronaxargestes Ornithocheiromorpha by JurassicClassic767 Black-footed cat by BhagyaMani Bat virome by Enwebb Echinodon by IJReid Homo ergaster by Ichthyovenator Dwarf dog-faced bat by Enwebb Doedicurus by Dunkleosteus77 Zebra by LittleJerry

News at a glance

• This month saw two Tree of Life editors gain the mop: CaptainEek (WikiProjects Birds and Plants) and Cwmhiraeth (familiar name at DYK, WikiProjects Plants, Animals, and Insects)
• The April – May GAN backlog drive finished up, clearing the queue from nearly 700 outstanding nominations to about 350.

Interview with Jts1882

This month we're joined by Jts1882, who is active in depicting evolutionary relationship of taxa via cladograms. Part of this includes responding to cladogram requests, where interested editors can have cladograms made without using the templates themselves.

How did you come to be interested in systematics? Are you interested in systematics broadly, or is there a particular group you're most fond of?

As long as I can remember I’ve been interested in nature, starting with the animals and plants in the garden, school grounds, and local wood, and then more general wildlife worldwide. An interest in how things are classified grew from this. I like things to be organised and understanding the relationships between things and systems (not just living things) is a big part of that. Biology was always my favourite subject in school and took up a disproportionate part of my time. My interest in systematics is broad as I’d like to comprehend the whole tree of life, but the cat family is my favourite group.

What's the background behind cladogram requests? I see that it isn't a very old part of the Tree of Life

Well I can’t take any credit for the cladogram requests page, although I help out there sometimes. It was created by IJReid and there are several people who have helped there more than me. I think the motivation is that creating cladograms requires a knowledge of the templates that is daunting for many editors. It was one way of helping people who want to focus on content creation.

My main contribution to the cladograms is converting the {{clade}} template to use a Lua module. The template code was extremely difficult to follow and had to be repetitive (I can only admire the efforts of those who got the thing to work in the first place). The conversion to Lua made it more efficient, allowed larger and deeper cladograms, plus facilitating the introduction of new features. The cladogram request page was recently the venue for discussion on making time calibrated cladograms, which is now possible, if not particularly user friendly.

What advice do you have for an editor who wants to learn how to make cladograms?

The same advice I would give to someone facing any computer problem, just try it out. Start by taking existing code for a cladogram and make changes yourself. The main advice would be to format it properly so indents match the brackets vertically. Of course, not everyone wants to learn and if someone prefers to focus on article content there is the cladogram request page.

Examples of cladograms Jts1882 has created, showing different proposed clades for Neoaves

Jarvis et al (2014)	Prum et al (2015)	Suh (2016) — a hard polytomy
Columbea Mirandornithes (flamingos, grebes) Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, sandgrouse) Passerea Otidae Otidimorphae (cuckoos, bustards, turacos) Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, nightbirds) Gruae Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruimorphae Gruiformes (cranes, rails) Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Ardeae Aequornithes (core waterbirds) Eurypgimorphae (sunbittern, kagu, tropicbirds) Telluraves Afroaves Australaves (core landbirds)	Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, nightbirds) Columbaves Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, sandgrouse) Otidimorphae (cuckoos, bustards, turacos) Gruiformes (cranes, rails) Aequorlitornithes Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Mirandornithes(flamingoes, grebes) Ardeae Aequornithes (core waterbirds) Eurypgimorphae (sunbittern, kagu, tropicbirds) (waterbirds) Inopinaves Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Telluraves Afroaves Australaves (core landbirds)	Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, sandgrouse) Otidimorphae (cuckoos, bustards, turacos) Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts, nightbirds) Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) Gruiformes (cranes, rails) Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Mirandornithes (flamingoes, grebes) Ardeae Aequornithes (core waterbirds) Eurypgimorphae (sunbittern, kagu, tropicbirds) Telluraves Afroaves Australaves (core landbirds)

Do you have any personal projects or goals you're working towards on Wikipedia?

As I said I like organisation and systems. So I find efforts like the automated taxobox system and {{taxonbar}} appealing. I would like to see more reuse of the major phylogenetic trees on Wikipedia with more use of consensus trees on the higher taxa. Too often they get edited based on one recent report and/or without proper citation. Animals and bilateria are examples where this is a problem.

Towards this I have been working on a system of phylogeny templates that can be reused flexibly. The {{Clade transclude}} template allows selective transclusion, so the phylogenetic trees on one page can be reused with modifications, i.e. can be pruned and grafted, used with or without images, with or without collapsible elements, etc. I have an example for the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification (see {{Phylogeny/APG IV}}) and one for squamates that also includes collapsible elements (see {{Phylogeny/Squamata}}).

A second project is to have a modular reference system for taxonomic resources. I have made some progress along this lines with the {{BioRef}} template. This started off simply as a way of hardlinking to Catalog of Fishes pages and I’ve gradually expanded it to cover other groups (e..g. FishBase, AmphibiaWeb and Amphibian Species of the World, Reptile Database, the Mammalian Diversity Database). The modular nature is still rudimentary and needs a rewrite before it is ready for wider use.

What would surprise your fellow editors to learn about your life off-Wikipedia?

I don’t think there is anything particularly surprising or interesting about my life. I’ve had an academic career as a research scientist but I don't think anyone could guess the area from my Wikipedia edits. I prefer to work on areas where I am learning at the same time. This why I spend more time with neglected topics (e.g. mosses at the moment). I start reading and then find that I’m not getting the information I want.

Anything else you'd like us to know?

My interest in the classification of things goes beyond biology. I am fascinated by mediaeval attempts to classify knowledge, such as Bacon in his The Advancement of Learning and Diderot and d’Alembert in their Encyclopédie. They were trying to come up with a universal scheme of knowledge just as the printing press was allowing greater dissemination of knowledge.

With the internet we are seeing a new revolution in knowledge dissemination. Just look at how we could read research papers on the COVID virus within weeks of its discovery. With an open internet, everyone has access, not just those with the luxury of books at home or good libraries. Sites like the Biodiversity Heritage Library allow you to read old scientific works without having to visit dusty university library stack rooms, while the taxonomic and checklist databases provide instant information on millions of living species. In principle, the whole world can now find out about anything, even if Douglas Adams warned we might be disinclined to do so.

This is why I like Wikipedia, with all its warts, it’s a means of organising the knowledge on the internet. In just two decades it’s become a first stop for knowledge and hopefully a gateway to more specialised sources. Perhaps developing this latter aspect, beyond providing good sources for what we say, is the next challenge for Wikipedia.

May DYKs

Slender Scotch burnet moth on a flower

Northern plains gray langur

Male vermilion flycatcher

Canada lynx

Meerkats

Hilarimorphites burmanica

Sun bear

• ... that coconut mites can be dispersed by wind, or perhaps by hitching a lift? (1 May)
• ... that Neanderthals went fishing? (1 May)
• ... that the Rowridge Valley in the Isle of Wight is the only known location for the wood calamint in Britain? (1 May)
• ... that Tetraponera penzigi is one of several species of ant that protect whistling thorn trees in East Africa from grazing giraffes and rhinoceroses? (3 May)
• ... that the Vietnam mouse-deer, which had been feared to have gone extinct nearly 30 years ago, was sighted again in 2019? (4 May)
• ... that most branchiobdellids use crayfish as hosts, living on their heads, carapaces, or claws, but in some instances inside their gill cavities? (5 May)
• ... that the song of the Madagascan hoopoe differs markedly from that of the African hoopoe? (5 May)
• ... that populations of the slender Scotch burnet (pictured), a European moth that lives in dry, lime-rich areas, have been declining? (6 May)
• ... that the spinosaurid dinosaur Ichthyovenator had two sails on its back? (9 May)
• ... that the scale insect Saissetia coffeae attacks many other plants besides coffee? (9 May)
• ... that entomologist Frederick Vincent Theobald wrote a five-volume monograph and sixty scientific papers on mosquitoes? (12 May)
• ... that the northern plains gray langur monkey (example pictured) is killed in India for food and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus? (12 May)
• ... that the leech Limnatis nilotica can affect humans and livestock, entering hosts through the mouth, nose, or other orifices? (12 May)
• ... that while the termite Pterotermes occidentis inhabits dead blue palo verde in the Sonoran Desert, Marginitermes hubbardi prefers dead saguaro? (14 May)
• ... that the tree Barteria fistulosa is associated with Tetraponera aethiops, an aggressive species of ant that lives in its hollow branches and twigs? (15 May)
• ... that Miller's langur, one of the rarest primates in Borneo, was feared to be extinct until a 2012 study rediscovered it in an area where it was previously unknown? (16 May)
• ... that most of the known Gigantopithecus fossils are of teeth because the other bones are likely to have been eaten by porcupines? (17 May)
• ... that Tetraponera tessmanni, a very aggressive ant, is able to establish dominance over the whole of the liana in which it lives, which may be 50 m (164 ft) long? (17 May)
• ... that mesophyletid weevils have only been found in Burmese amber? (18 May)
• ... that Pyrocephalus, the genus name of the vermilion flycatcher (example pictured), literally means 'fire head'? (19 May)
• ... that the male bigtooth cardinalfish broods a ball of eggs in his mouth? (20 May)
• ... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? (20 May)
• ... that the Arizona dampwood termite exclusively colonizes dead parts of standing trees? (22 May)
• ... that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag? (23 May)
• ... that besides eating ants and termites, the waved woodpecker feeds on fruits, berries, and seeds? (24 May)
• ... that populations of the Canada lynx (pictured) undergo cyclic rises and falls in line with those of the snowshoe hare? (25 May)
• ... that despite being known as the Mexican hydrangea, Clerodendrum bungei is neither from Mexico nor a species of hydrangea? (25 May)
• ... that meerkats (examples pictured) use alarm calls that can identify the type of predator posing the risk, the level of danger, and the caller itself? (27 May)
• ... that the frog Boophis fayi can be identified by its unusual green-and-turquoise eyes? (30 May)
• ... that members of the fly family Apystomyiidae (example depicted) have been found in Late Jurassic sediments in Kazakhstan? (30 May)
• ... that the sun bear (pictured) is the smallest of all bear species? (31 May)

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This week's article for improvement (week 26, 2020)

William Mariner was an Englishman who lived in Tonga from 29 November 1806 to (probably) 8 November 1810. He later published Tonga Islands, an account of his experiences that is now one of the major sources of information on Tonga before it was significantly influenced by European culture and Christianity. Pictured is Mariner in Tongan attire. Hello, Awkwafaba. The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: William Mariner (writer) Please be bold and help to improve this article! Previous selections: Ship canal • Anna Holmlund Get involved with the TAFI project. You can: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 June 2020 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject TAFI •

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Using CitationBot on Drafts

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I've just been looking through articles that have been in the draftspace for more than a year and I've seen quite a few when you have used CitationBot to make minor changes to articles right about at the 6 month point since the last edit, when they would otherwise be deleted under G13. I'm curious to know whether you are intentionally doing this to prevent G13 (I'm happy to assume that if this is the case you have a good reason) or whether this is inadvertant.

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Best Regards Pi (Talk to me!) 20:32, 21 June 2020 (UTC)

@Pi: I apologize for the slow response, I am rather bust IRL, and don’t have access to a desktop even. I had been running it on some stale drafts, in an attempt to give new editors more time, especially when they have only automated messages sent to them most of the time. It’s an experiment. Has it been wreaking havoc somewhere? --awkwafaba (📥) 15:38, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

That's fine, I've got no problem with the edits if they're intentional. I was just worried that it was accidental. Pi (Talk to me!) 07:02, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

The problem is, since they are bot, not human, edits, they don't actually extend the G13 deadline. And when you make more than 500 hundred over a space of a few days without any apparent consideration for the quality of the draft, it can be seen as disruptive. If you believe the G13 window should be longer than six months, the way to make that point is instead by opening a discussion on the talk page for the speedy deletion policy. UnitedStatesian (talk) 20:04, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

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