The sample infobox for the Colorado potato beetle in WP:How to read a taxobox has this for a background color. The actual Colorado potato beetle article...
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nature prior to 2017 can be found at Template talk:Automatic taxobox Those familiar with the system prior to mid-2016 are advised to read Notes for "old...
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to divide it into separate tasks. 1) What all information is needed to display in taxobox. 2) How should the taxobox look like for a reader. 3) How should...
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templates is so that a taxobox can be copied from one language wiki to another without having to translate rank names. We shouldn't have to translate taxon...
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Wikipedia talk:Automated taxobox system/Archive 1 and Wikipedia talk:Automated taxobox system/Archive 13, and neither link to each other and only one is...
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rewrites to the underlying code that makes the automated taxobox system work, both initial fixes by Wikid77 and then conversion of parts to Lua by me...
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automatic taxobox which shows up as a disambiguation link to Pennsylvanian. There is an appropriate link, Pennsylvanian (geology), but how can it be disambiguated...
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tests from the early days of the automated taxobox. — Jts1882 | talk 09:29, 14 November 2021 (UTC) How do we show Incertae sedis taxa?Leomk0403 (Don't...
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to have an auto taxobox on a species article automatically keep up to date with changes in published taxonomy by linking it with an identifier to a nomenclatural...
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talk:Automatic taxobox/Archive 14#Proper handling of stem taxa that resulted in an unresolved dispute over how these constructs work. I tried to document what...
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Maybe add a new section on this to Taxonomy, or to Wikipedia:How to read a taxobox, or both? Dinoguy2 00:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC) This isn't a general...
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think, is to accept that a forma specialis taxon should use a manual taxobox and revise {{Taxobox}} to accept "forma_specialis" in addition to form/forma...
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Range maps were accepted as an optional part of the taxobox, but so far we haven't considered how they should fit into the new template system. Pages...
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to ToL articles at the moment. Add a category to an article causes the taxobox to be forced into the centre of the page (with lots of whitespace to its...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life (section Criteria for the listing of species in a taxobox of their genus)
Even for this, we can't reach a consensus. Still, I have more problems with the automated taxobox system that I will try to get consensus in the future...
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parameterized templates. We will be able to set up a template for a species taxobox, and then tweak that to our hearts content. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 09:49...
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spent quite a few hours trying to work up a taxobox form that would (a) contain the animal's conservation status in an easily-read, at-a-glance way, and...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Archive 4 (section Summary of adding status to taxobox discussion)
It was decided to introduce a status to the species taxobox. The status should appear the line below the species name (by using a <br> tag) and be colour-coded...
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Well folks, the time has come to build taxobox templates. Is there a clue somewhere to teach us all the bells and whistles of MW 1.3 templates? - UtherSRG...
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suggested by the taxobox instructions unranked_ordo or unranked_ordo = Order Created a template Template:ICTVdB for ICTVdB codes, links code to database description...
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already up to date (I have fixed the bug that added Sand cat to Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN). Editor BhagyaMani also left a note on...
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or may not be a good thing. Discussion of this is welcome. There are several points to note about this example of a family-level taxobox, which is not...
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{{Taxobox section binomial}} has three words, change it to {{Taxobox section trinomial}}. (Example: Formosan Clouded Leopard) (Done.) Where a taxobox has...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Archive 20 (section Use taxobox for genome decodes or create new box ?.)
Nothofagus page to include both pictures, the tree in the taxobox, but put the leaves picture in a useful location? I will never figure out how to do it. KP...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Archive 19 (section Generating large number of species articles w/ taxobox)
After thinking about it, the problem seems to be the meaning in the taxobox, because taxonomy today has a strong emphasis on monophyletic groups, but...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Archive 41 (section Request for comments: Should the automatic taxobox system be the current recommended practice?)
to add a reference to the Gastropoda article directly to the taxobox, that the Gastropoda class belongs to the Mollusca phyllym. I do not know how to...
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in addition to their member genera), i.e. not a hierarchical progression of categories (like how the Automatic Taxobox does it or how Wikimedia Commons...
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Geoff There is also a dark blue taxobox used for Ships. See USS Chicago (1885) for an example. Added, though I can't figure out how to make the words white...
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synthesis is to advance a position, I can't see that a distribution map is likely to fall into that category. Assembling a taxobox is a synthesis of information...
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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life/Archive 26 (section Poll question: Do you support the use of {{italictitle}} as opposed to the taxobox hack?)
Is there anyway to get a list of all new articles that have the {{taxobox}} template in? You can do it manually by searching for it on the new page list...
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