Talk:List of Australian mammals

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[edit] List formats

The formats of the sublists need unifying. I suggest following the List of Australian birds format, vis:

• • Generally two levels of headings at the Order and Family level, formatted as heading levels 2 and 4 (3 is a bit large for Family names). Add or substitute Class, Subclass, Suborder, Subfamily, Tribe etc only where they add something useful. No heading at genus level (redundant - the binomial covers it).
  • Headings are the bare latin name, wikilinked - ie omit the redundant words "Order", "Family", etc (the standard latin forms already say it). Add clarifying group common names in parenthesis where warranted, but watch the resulting TOC width.
  • {{TOCright}}, except if there is some format conflict
  • A bullet for each species
  • An indented bullet for each sub-species, where warranted
  • Common name first (wikilinked), then scientific binomial (italics), then notes, all comma separated
  • Wikilinking the scientific name is redundant and reduces readability (it loses the colour contrast), but it helps initially with finding typos and missing redirects

Thoughts? Glen Fergus 10:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)