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Hi, welcome to my user page. I tend to edit biological articles, with interests in invertebrate zoology, evolution and paleontology, and biographies of scientists (and sometimes their notable family members!).
My philosophy/tips/musings on editing and article creation:
- Context is key.
- One good comprehensive article is better than a dozen isolated stubs. Merge when appropriate.
- Emphasize quality over quantity.
- Make technical articles understandable.
- Avoid overlinking, and don't link purely because an article exists by that name. Keep the reader focused on your article, and don't use multiple wikilinks when they draw emphasis away from the primary target (e.g. "described by the British naturalist Charles Darwin", not "the British naturalist Charles Darwin")
- Do not start lists with "This is a list of..."! Give those lists some introductory context!
- Be aware of the FUTON (full text on net) bias and the Digital divide: the vast majority of scholarly human knowledge is not freely available online, and an easily accessible source (e.g. first hit on Google) doesn't always mean a reliable or authoritative source. Don't be afraid to find and cite a book!
- Eschew obfuscation.
Useful tools:
- reFill - automatically expand bare url citations
- Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books - converts a url into a formatted reference
- Move-to-Commons assistant - easily move properly licensed files to Commons
Contents
Pages created
Did You Know? appearance
Good Article
Composed mainly or entirely from Public Domain sources
Disambiguation pages, redirects, categories, and other miscellaneous pages not included.
Arthropods
Myriapods
- Ammodesmidae
- Anadenobolus monilicornis
- Anethoporus
- Apheloria
- Aprosphylosoma
- Archipolypoda
- Archidesmida
- Archidesmus
- Bollmania
- Boreohesperus
- Branneria
- Californiulus
- Californiulus yosemitensis
- Callipodida
- Chamberlineptus
- Chicobolus spinigerus
- Chordeumatida
- Colobognatha
- Condexenus
- Cryptopidae
- Cyphopod
- Dalodesmidae
- Eucarlia
- Gosodesmus
- Greenhouse millipede
- Glomeridesmida
- Gonatotrichus
- Gonatotrichus minutus
- Gonopod (expanded from redirect)
- Haplogona
- Harpagomorpha (millipede)
- Harpaphe
- Hiltonius
- Juliformia
- List of millipede families
- List of Paradoxosomatidae genera
- Mammamia
- Ommatoiulus avatar
- Ommatoiulus sabulosus
- Orthomorpha
- Paeromopodidae
- Paeromopus
- Paeromopus angusticeps
- Paeromopus paniculus
- Palaeosoma
- Pentazonia
- Platydesmida
- Polyxenida
- Polyxenidae
- Polyxenus (genus)
- Polyzoniida
- Sinocallipus
- Siphoniulus
- Siphonophorida
- Synxenidae
- Template:Millipedes
- Titanophyllum
- Trachysphaera
- Trichopetalum (millipede)
- Tylobolus
- Urochordeuma
- Xenobolus
- Xenobolus carnifex
- Xyloiuloidea
- Zanclodesmus
- Zosterogrammidae
Spiders, insects, etc.
- Aphonopelma behlei
- Aphonopelma chamberlini
- Aphonopelma hollyi
- Argennina
- Armadillidae
- Bannana (spider)
- Calculus bicolor
- Dalmasula
- Entychides
- Eucteniza
- Glenognatha
- Hagenomyia
- Iandumoema
- Khamul (genus)
- Labulla
- Latina (genus)
- Melpomene (spider)
- Neoapachella
- Orsonwelles
- Orsonwelles graphicus
- Orsonwelles malus
- Orsonwelles torosus
- Palindroma
- Panjange
- Pinkfloydia
- Shireplitis
- Unicorn (spider)
- USFWS list of endangered arthropods
- Wockia
- Xiombarg (spider)
Paleontology
- Abdounodus
- Apterodon
- Bombur (genus)
- Chipetaia
- Cipactlichthys
- Cleopatrodon
- Edenopteron
- Eocteniza
- Fortiholcorpa
- Furca (genus)
- Gagadon
- Geolabididae (trans. from French)
- Halecomorphi
- Haplolambda
- Hedstroemia (trilobite)
- Hondadelphys
- Kelba quadeemae
- Lahimia
- Lambertocyon
- Leptolambda
- Micropalaeosoma
- Miriholcorpa
- Olbitherium
- Ouled Abdoun Basin
- Prolimnocyon
- Ptolemaia
- Qarunavus
- Widanelfarasia
- Xenokeryx
Biographies
Scientists and physicians
- Charles Elmer Allen
- János Balogh (biologist)
- Harlan Parker Banks
- Arthur M. Banta
- Charles Reid Barnes
- Harley Harris Bartlett
- Helen Battle
- William H. Behle
- Patricia Berjak
- Peter B. Best
- Charles Harvey Bollman
- Edward George Boulenger
- Henry Wilfred Brolemann
- Harry E. Burke
- John Caskey
- José Luis Castro Aguirre
- Willard Joseph Chamberlin
- M. K. Chandrashekaran
- Donald Chant
- George Perkins Clinton
- Guy N. Collins
- Lincoln Constance
- Alice Carter Cook
- Robert C. Cook
- H. Basil S. Cooke
- Raymond B. Cowles
- Gertrude Crotty Davenport
- Mary Cynthia Dickerson
- Rennie Wilbur Doane
- Stephen David Durrant
- Ivan Alekseevich Dwigubski
- Richard M. Eakin
- Arthur Johnson Eames
- Wilton R. Earle
- Adriance S. Foster
- Madeleine Fritz
- F. E. J. Fry
- C. Stuart Gager
- Beverly Thomas Galloway
- Arthur White Greeley
- William B. Greeley
- Vera Gromova
- Robert Hardwicke
- Ottó Herman
- Henry Barker Hill
- Elise Hofmann
- Richard L. Hoffman
- Joseph Bassett Holder
- Henry Dwight Holton
- Marjorie Hoy
- C. A. W. Jeekel
- Calvin Henry Kauffman
- Henry Granger Knight
- Ezra Jacob Kraus
- Louis Otto Kunkel
- Ivey Foreman Lewis
- Margaret Reed Lewis
- Warren Harmon Lewis
- Eduardo Liceaga
- Michael Locke (biologist)
- Harold F. Loomis
- Robert Latzel
- Catharine Macfarlane
- Pavel Iustinovich Marikovsky
- James Cosmo Melvill (naturalist)
- John Miller (botanical illustrator)
- John Miller (entomologist)
- Loye H. Miller
- John Traherne Moggridge
- Thomas Harrison Montgomery, Jr.
- Walter Mulford
- John P. Munson
- Aven Nelson
- Frederick Charles Newcombe
- Ida Shepard Oldroyd
- Octavio Paredes López
- Marianna Paulucci
- Alexei Petrovich Pavlov
- Maria Pavlova
- Robert Hibbs Peebles
- George James Peirce
- Claire Penn
- Jesús Emilio Ramírez
- William Jacob Robbins
- John A. Ryder
- Simón Sarasola
- Naima Sahlbom
- Katherine Sanford
- Jay M. Savage
- R. J. G. Savage
- Jacob R. Schramm
- Aaron John Sharp
- Joseph Richard Slevin
- Wendy Sloboda
- Igerna Sollas
- Effie A. Southworth
- John Edward Sowerby
- Volney Morgan Spalding
- Robert C. Stebbins
- William Campbell Steere
- Neil Everett Stevens
- David Humphreys Storer
- Francis Humphreys Storer
- Tracy I. Storer
- Mary Talbot (entomologist)
- Vasco M. Tanner
- Oswald Tippo
- Edgar Nelson Transeau
- Robert L. Usinger
- Ilya Voznesensky
- Marvalee Wake
- David Wasawo
- Vladimir Wagner
- Charles James Watkins
- Barbara D. Webster
- Ralph H. Wetmore
- Edith Grace White
- Karl McKay Wiegand
- George Bacon Wood
- Angus M. Woodbury
- Amos Henry Worthen
Other
- Cecil Hamilton Armitage
- Charles Belden (screenwriter)
- William Henry Chamberlin (philosopher)
- Thomas Crane (1843–1903)
- Henry Hetherington Emmerson
- Edward Hopley
- E. E. Ericksen
- Edward Carey Francis
- Joseph William Holder
- Larry Ivie
- Howard Keltner
- Kate Everest Levi
- Walt McDougall
- John M. Miller (artist)
- James Alan Montgomery
- Thomas Harrison Montgomery
- Thomas Lynch Montgomery
- John George Sowerby
- Millicent Sowerby
- Cyril A. Stebbins
- Edith White
- True Williams
- Gertrude Mary Woodward
Miscellaneous
- Aipysurus apraefrontalis
- Aipysurus foliosquama
- Bald sculpin
- Cadea palirostrata
- Chondrocidaris
- Cutaneous respiration
- Diastema (plant)
- Embiotoca lateralis
- Herpetological Conservation and Biology
- Folia Primatologica
- Genome (journal)
- Knowledge (magazine)
- Lonchophylla inexpectata
- Meroles ctenodactylus
- North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (split and expanded)
- Organ of Tömösváry (expanded from redirect)
- Peckoltia greedoi
- Sea centipede
- Slevin's bunchgrass lizard
- Sonatsa
- Southwestern fence lizard
- Spicule (nematode)
- Zamia erosa
- 1911 Brigham Young University modernism controversy
Major contributions
- Ocepeia
- Millipede (expanding anatomy and classification, phylogeny and subtaxa in the works...)
- Glomerida (expanded from stub)
- Microlophus albemarlensis (expanded from stub)
- Ralph Vary Chamberlin (expanded from stub)
- Kyphosichthys
- Eozostrodon
- Insect trap
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