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Contents 1 Proposal to add featured picture stars to taxoboxes 2 Proposals with regard to taxobox 3 Pageview stats 4 Distribution map How-to page 5 G. species dab pages

[edit] Proposal to add featured picture stars to taxoboxes

There is a proposal at the Village Pump[1] to add featured picture stars to featured pictures in article space (below the featured picture, in its caption box, or image caption box in the case of taxoboxes with featured pictures.

The discussion includes asking the question whether they should be added to all featured pictures in articles including in taxoboxes, added just to featured pictures in caption boxes only and not to featured pictures in taxoboxes, or not added at all. Currently to find out if an image is a featured picture the user has to click on the image and its file page indicates with a star in the upper right hand corner that it is a featured picture.

To join the discussion and express your opinion go to the Village Pump. --IP69.226.103.13 (talk) 08:32, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Proposals with regard to taxobox

I brought up two proposals at Template talk:Taxobox. One is to add more explanation of how the |synonyms= field in the taxobox should be filled, and the other is to introduce the possibility to note that the classification in a taxobox is "disputed", "obsolete", or "uncertain". Input from other users would be appreciated. Ucucha 03:34, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Tree of life to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of life/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the toolserver tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 01:05, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Distribution map How-to page

FYI, I've created a little tutorial for how to make those nifty species distribution maps that people sometimes add to taxoboxes: Wikipedia:Distribution maps. Enjoy. Kaldari (talk) 23:25, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

That is really handy! Thanks for doing that... and expect to see dist maps in future fungus articles :) Sasata (talk) 23:31, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] G. species dab pages

Folks, there's another (short) discussion on the utility of these kinds of dab pages with one editor creating hundreds of them (Category:Latin name disambiguation pages), many of which contain only red links. Discussion is here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants#G. species dab pages. Previous tangential discussion on this topic was here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life/Archive23#Redirects on "G. species" disambiguation pages. I don't find them particularly useful or necessary. Thoughts? Rkitko ^(talk) 23:23, 15 December 2009 (UTC)

I don't think they're that useful, but when someone wants to go ahead and make and maintain them, I don't really care either. After all, G. species is a common way to refer to species and people may be searching for it; I see no point in deleting them. (After reviewing the WT:PLANTS discussion, I think I pretty much agree with Kingdon and Una here.) Ucucha 23:35, 15 December 2009 (UTC)