LlywelynII

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References, vernacular names, and a bit of XHTML advice.

Hello. It's always nice to see new users adding quality material to Wikispecies, and your contributions are most welcome! However, contrary to many other Wikimedia projects – most notably Wikipedia – the praxis on Wikispecies is not always to add the "Reference" section last in every article. This is especially true in regards to vernacular names. Wikispecies primarily deals with taxonomical data, and since vernacular names are not really part of the taxonomy they are often considered "less important", hence placed last in the articles, after the references. Please see Help:General Wikispecies: Content convention and Wikispecies: How a taxon page content should be structured for information and examples on this issue. Currently, Panthera tigris is seen as an example of an "ideal" Wikispecies page, and can be used as a guide.

Also, while perhaps not as important, the correct XHTML syntax for adding manual line breaks is either <br/> or <br />. The slash should be placed after the name of the XHTML element, since the line break tag is a "self-closing" element. Closing the tag with a slash before the name of the element should only be done when the tag has first been "opened" with a separate tag, e.g.

<div>  some text  </div>

which is of course never the case when using the <br/> tag. This is all minor details one can argue, but I'm only here to help. :-) Keep up the good work – as I said, it's most appreciated! Regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 21:08, 25 June 2014 (UTC).

Thanks for the kind words.

I was simply following the format of some other entries I myself had seen, but if the tiger format is the way to go, I'll copy that, including the small-capped scientific names. Thanks.

@line break formatting: Odd. I already knew that, although sometimes I just type <br> since I've never seen it make any difference at all. If I actually did add a </br> to a page, it was a typo.

A minor point on using tiger as your type article: the daggers beside some subspecies should be glossed in a sidebar, footnote, or linked through to explain what the hell they mean. I'm sure biologists will already know, but the lay readers won't. — LlywelynII 06:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)