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I'm a botanist/organismal biologist. I'm particularly interested in edible plants, and all the complications that arise with regards to both common names and scientific names for those. I fix various errors or unfortunate phrasings on Wikipedia (mostly in plant related articles) when I come across them, and try to contribute to articles related to my hobbies. Internet identities aren't necessarily unique or centralized; I am not the same person as the Twitter user who goes by Plantdrew.
I think my favorite article at present is Urena lobata. I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Is it a profound statement about inclusionism/deletionism? Commentary on the (non)-value of stubs? Is it perhaps the most meta article on Wikipedia?
- Watchlist of changes to 500 most popular plants articles: Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Plants/Popular_pages
- Watchlist of changes to taxonomy templates: Special:RecentChangesLinked/Category:Taxonomy templates
- CatScan v2 CatScan v3 PetScan (PetScan fork) DPL
- tool that fills out cite journal from DOI
- tool that fills out cite web from URL another URL tool
- Watchlist of talk pages with WikiProject Plants banner.
Watchlist of talk pages with WikiProject Tree of life banner.
- Relevant to monitoring Wikiprojects; Article alerts, Talk page watchlist aggregation, New page report, Cleanup report, Assessment report; not all of these exist for ToL subprojects (and I need to write a rule set for ToL new pages, relying mostly on taxobox presence)
- most edited plant articles (slow...)
- article info
- my contributions
- Assessment table update
- Popular pages interface New tool for pageviews
- Page views for all pages by project
- Cleanup listing for plants
- Plant articles with dab links new link
- Title search
- Template parameters (shows bad parameters in Taxobox)
- BONAP/Kartesz guidelines for formatting "common" (sic) names of plants. Good luck with that.
- Plant tagged redirects needing categorization
- PETSCAN for redirects needing categorization
- Special:PrefixIndex/User:Plantdrew
- regex for speciesbox with binomial authority
- regex for speciesbox with binomial authority, all spacings
- regex for Speciesbox with piped copulation
- regex search for type species authorities with parentheses
- regex search for "| caption" (also can check genus_authority in Automatic taxobox)
- In taxonomy search
- image checker
- Search for compatible images on iNaturalist
When I was working for one of the taxobox databases, I would've investigated Micrathena sagittata being described in 1841/1842. As a Wikipedian lacking access to the primary literature, with 1842 uBio and IRMNG are outliers (and I could check with Tony Rees here for the IRMNG date).
User scripts: User:William Avery/taxoboxalyzer User:Jts1882/taxonomybrowser.js
- WP:DENY is an essay, but see Talk:Bryosartor
Taxobox cleanup
- Ongoing parameter cleanup in automatic taxoboxes; binomial_authority, spaced parameters (image caption, fossil range, range map,...), rank parameters (regnum, familia), deprecated parameters (_width for various images), image prefixes (File:, Image:, [[, http) (most show up in monthly TDER, but I like to check the most frequent ~weekly)
- Correct/remove blatantly invalid parameters (rely on TDER, although deletion error "uthority" shows up pretty regularly)
- Subgenus/oldest fossil standardize to parent/fossil_range
- Add authorities to species (there's ~100 hard cases and some monthly churn via TDER)
- Add authorities to families and genera; have yet to work on systematically
- Add images; not something I reliably check
- Type species authorities with parentheses; check
- Unlink subdivision_ranks
- Split parameters where applicable; synonyms/synonyms_ref, subdivision_ranks+subdivision/subdivision_ref, status/status_ref, type/type_authority (Jts1882 gave some regex for splitting out references)
- Parameter order; displayed order is: name/fossil_range/image/status/(display_parents)|grandparent_authority/taxon/authority/subdivision/range_map/synonyms/
- "name = ''" is a junk parameter; have yet to work on it
- unnecessary/redundant markup in authority; <small>, {{ (other parameters also need checking)
Odd parameters in manual taxoboxes
- Domain Eukarya; mostly Elachista species
- Image_size; several moth genera, including Ethmia
- Gastropod clades in unranked_ordo
I guess I could setup my institutional credentials on my home computer to be able to access more paywalled articles, but I edit most at home, and being forced to bypass paywalls helps with awareness of FUTON bias (I've confused myself. Paywells aren't FUTON.) Citations behind a paywall are not prohibited on Wikipedia, but aren't great for most readers.