Portal talk:Amphibians and Reptiles
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Portal:Amphibians and Reptiles is part of WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use amphibians and reptiles resource. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information. |
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[edit] Portal Created
I'm glad to announce that The Amphibians and Reptiles Portal (P:AAR) has been created and is ready for you to use. This portal covers any subjects related to amphibians, reptiles, herpetology, as well as WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles.
Purposes of the portal
- to act as the "main page" for editors interested in amphibians and reptiles. The portal page should contain all the common and useful links to relevant articles, lists, categories, as well as the project tasklist. As this portal is your tool, please feel free to organize, modify, or expand the Topics, Categories, Lists, and Tasklist sections of the portal as you see fit.
- to recognize works of AAR editors via the "Selected Article of the Month" and "Selected Picture of the Month." You can participate in this process by nominating and voting for articles and pictures that you think deserve to be presented for each month. Selected articles and pictures receive a recognition messagebox on talk pages.
- to lead potential AAR editors to WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles as well as to educate general readers. Feel free to add more items for the "Did you know..." section.
Thank you for reading. If you have any questions, please leave them on the portal talk page or my user talk page. --Melanochromis 09:32, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Things you can do
Not only is it a good thing to create articles for each genus and ensure all articles between family and genus rank are taxonomically consistent, but it should be encouraged that editors move descriptions of common characteristics to articles for higher taxa. An article on a genus should contain more than just a list of species (with no mention of the taxonomy being used). Typically, general characteristics are repeated over and over again in the species articles, which invites inconsistency. We need to be making much more use of the taxonomic hierarchy. --Jwinius 12:05, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
