Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian biota

Welcome to the Australian Biota WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors that is part of WikiProject Australia dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Australian biota.

Goals
  • To enhance and collaborate all articles that are related to Australian biota.
Scope
  • Everything to do with Australian flora and fauna.

Guidelines

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The guidelines of associated WikiProjects should be used in creating content on Australia biota. For example, for the Rainbow Lorikeet article, the guidelines of WikiProject Birds should be used.

See below regarding guidelines for basic content in lead sentences and paragraphs.

Current issues

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Relevant to the project and articles within...

September 2022 - Flora_of_New_South_Wales - where the lack of an article as opposed to the category is being discussed...

Article alerts

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Good article nominees

Open tasks

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Monthly Project Article:

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Autralian biota articles without wikidata images (and probably without images on their page)

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SPRAT plant taxa beginning with A without an article
taxon Wikidata spratItem apniItem
Acacia ataxiphylla subsp. magna Q15438174 SPRAT 64823 APNI 141458
Acacia chapmanii subsp. australis Q9563270 SPRAT 65249 APNI 153433
Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. cochlocarpa                                                               Q9563439 SPRAT 23877 APNI 153457
Acacia cochlocarpa subsp. velutinosa                                                               Q9563449 SPRAT 65112 APNI 152953
Acacia insolita subsp. recurva                                                                     Q9565630 SPRAT 64495 APNI 153115
Acacia subflexuosa subsp. capillata                                                                 Q9569587 SPRAT 64828 APNI 162213
Acacia whibleyana                                                                                   Q9570417 SPRAT 64497 APNI 135430
Achyranthes arborescens                                                                             Q15583431 SPRAT 65879 APNI 125816
Acianthus ledwardii                                                                                 Q9580948 SPRAT 11200 APNI 73206
Actephila foetida                                                                                   Q15509873 SPRAT 12078 APNI 74718
Actinotus schwarzii                                                                                 Q15559241 SPRAT 18659 APNI 75177
Adenanthos pungens subsp. effusus                                                                   Q27828443 SPRAT 10742 APNI 75835
Almaleea cambagei                                                                                   Q15524183 SPRAT 56308 APNI 118817
Ammobium craspedioides                                                                             Q15580117 SPRAT 20758 APNI 85943
Amperea xiphoclada var. pedicellata                                                                 Q27828344 SPRAT 55225 APNI 117602
Amphibromus fluitans                                                                               Q27828347 SPRAT 19215 APNI 86430
Amphibromus whitei                                                                                 Q27828352 SPRAT 3590 APNI 86466
Amyema plicatula                                                                                   Q15378461 SPRAT 81879 APNI 154737
Andersonia axilliflora                                                                             Q15368897 SPRAT 16916 APNI 88512
Andersonia gracilis                                                                                 Q15369991 SPRAT 14470 APNI 88688
Andersonia pinaster                                                                                 Q15369482 SPRAT 67444 APNI 211530
Androcalva procumbens                                                                               Q17579630 SPRAT 87153 APNI 236039
Anigozanthos bicolor subsp. minor                                                                   Q27828491 SPRAT 21241 APNI 92279
Anigozanthos viridis subsp. terraspectans                                                           Q27828494 SPRAT 3435 APNI 92585
Apatophyllum olsenii                                                                               Q15322320 SPRAT 7718 APNI 96794
Aponogeton bullosus                                                                                 Q4068077 SPRAT 8299 APNI 97567
Argyrotegium nitidulum                                                                             Q15587693 SPRAT 82043 APNI 189788
Aristida annua                                                                                     Q15505592 SPRAT 17906 APNI 100558
Aristida granitica                                                                                 Q15505508 SPRAT 4065 APNI 100832
Asplenium pellucidum                                                                               Q15598335 SPRAT 21662 APNI 117183
Asplenium wildii                                                                                   Q17064381 SPRAT 19154 APNI 106144
Astelia australiana                                                                                 Q15501794 SPRAT 10851 APNI 106586
Asterolasia nivea                                                                                   Q15387301 SPRAT 8225 APNI 108209
Asterolasia phebalioides                                                                           Q15387554 SPRAT 3599 APNI 108228
Astrotricha crassifolia                                                                             Q15551515 SPRAT 10352 APNI 109306
Astrotricha roddii                                                                                 Q15551508 SPRAT 56312 APNI 118821
Atalaya brevialata                                                                                 Q18078558 SPRAT 86125 APNI 241686
Atalaya collina                                                                                     Q15547125 SPRAT 55417 APNI 117828
Atriplex infrequens                                                                                 Q15586184 SPRAT 4143 APNI 111593
Atriplex yeelirrie                                                                                 Q22712281 SPRAT 88538 APNI 5431799
Austrostipa metatoris                                                                               Q27828361 SPRAT 66704 APNI 163146
Austrostipa wakoolica                                                                               Q27828364 SPRAT 66623 APNI 163178

Guidelines for new stubs

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When a common (vernacular) name is used as the article title, the boldfaced common name is followed by the italic boldfaced scientific name in round parentheses in the first sentence of the lead. Alternative names should be mentioned and reliably sourced in the text where applicable, with bold type in the lead if they are in wide use, or elsewhere in the article (with or without the bold type, per editorial discretion) if they are less used. It is not necessary to include non-English common names, unless they are also commonly used in English, e.g. regionally; if included, they should be italicized as non-English
Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii)
When the article title is the scientific name, reverse the order of the scientific and common name(s) (if any of the latter are given), and boldface as well as italicize the scientific name. Avoid putting the most common name in parentheses (this will suppress its display in some views of Wikipedia, including Wikipedia:Pop-ups and Google Knowledge Graph)
Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine

Participants

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Please add your name here, and indicate areas of interest. Please try to keep the list in alphabetical order.

{{user WikiProject Australian biota}}

  1. 99of9 (talk · contribs) Photographs of anything I see
  2. Aliwright01 (talk · contribs) Australian plants, specifically pisonia umbellifera.
  3. BoundaryRider (talk · contribs) - flora, reptiles, birds, invertebrates, ecology, ecosystems, cryptozoology, photos
  4. Chipmunkdavis (talk · contribs) - General interest in all Fauna, with particular interest in marine animals
  5. Contrawwftw (talk · contribs) - vertebrates, wildlife conservation
  6. User:Ds2320 - Australian beetles
  7. Enlil Ninlil - Any extinct animal, doing extinct Diprotodontia now.
  8. Figaro (talk · contribs) - Mainly marsupials, monotremes and birds
  9. Gderrin (talk · contribs) - Australian plant genera
  10. Gnangarra (talk · contribs) - Anything/everything - available for an independant review of any article
  11. JarrahTree (talk · contribs) - project maintenance
  12. Junglenut (talk · contribs) - interested mainly in Australia's rainforest flora
  13. LiquidGhoul (talk · contribs) - Mostly Australian frogs, but will help with anything.
  14. Maias (talk · contribs) - potentially anything
  15. MargaretRDonald (talk · contribs) - Anything - sponges, frogs, spiders, beetle, plants....
  16. MelaleucaHoney (talk · contribs) - mostly plants, especially orchids, plus arid zone biota
  17. yoyo - Helping out any way I can.
  18. ThylacineHunter (talk · contribs) - Horticulturist, interested in fauna, contributes to ALA / iNaturalist


not currently active participants (more than one year since last edit)

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  1. Aikidesigns (talk · contribs) - anything and everything, particular expertise with birds (esp. Marbled Frogmouth, Black-breasted Buttonquail, rare/threatened forest/rainforest-dependent species)
  2. Atlantis Hawk (talk · contribs) (Everything to do with Australian Fauna)
  3. Band of the Red Hand (talk · contribs) - Extinct megafauna including the Marsupial Lion and the Diprotodon. Also some Australian Flora, Australian Living Fossils and significant fossil deposits.
  1. Burklemore1 (talk · contribs) - Australian ants#Candyman0000 (talk · contribs) - Will help with all fauna, specializing in reptiles, amphibians, and marine life.
  2. Carbonrodney (talk · contribs) - Fauna and Flora
  3. Elomis (talk · contribs) - Helping out any way I can.
  4. Fred.e (talk · contribs) - 'General' reader, offering review and eclectic comment. Images soon.
  5. Froggydarb (talk · contribs) - Mostly Australian frogs, and anything else I know a bit about.
  6. Geematic (talk · contribs) - Australian frogs and some SA freshwater fish
  7. Gudzwabofer (talk · contribs) - Flora, and a little on biomes perhaps.
  8. Helicarion (talk) 06:16, 31 July 2016 (UTC) - Invertebrates, fauna and flora of eastern Australia, esp. FNQ[reply]
  9. HelloMojo (talk · contribs) - All things, specialising in flora
  10. Mdk572 (talk · contribs) - Dogs, birds
  11. Mutley (talk · contribs) - Mainly Thylacine
  12. Welbergen (talk · contribs) Australian fauna, especially mammals and birds
  13. Wilhelm Klave (talk · contribs) Marsupials, Monotremes, especially the rare and extinct species
  1. WikiWhizzard2702 (talk · contribs) - Dalhousie Goby (freshwater desert fish)
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Candidates

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Good articles

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Candidates

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Did you knows (DYKs)

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New articles

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Please feel free to list your new Australian biota-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page.

Templates

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  • {{APNI}}, for citing the Australian Plant Names Index.

Categories

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Resources

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