A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in these articles. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!
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Title WikiProject Tree of Life
Scope This WikiProject aims primarily to present the taxonomy of all living species (and maybe some extinct ones as well) in a tree structure. This is a particularly ambitious WikiProject, as there are millions of them.
Parentage The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Biology[?]. The grandparent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Science[?].
Descendant Wikiprojects No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.
Similar Wikiprojects The similar WikiProject is the WikiProject Conservation worldwide.
See talk:Solanales for the original expression of this idea.
Structure There is an article called Tree of life, but since that is a disambiguation page, the real root of the Tree of Life is evolutionary tree. There shall be articles for all taxa of ranks domain, kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, and genus. There may be articles for intermediate taxa. Articles for species are generally not needed, but may be put for salient species such as Amorphophallus titanum.
Each taxon of a rank from genus to phylum/division, inclusive, shall have the following sections:
These, except the text, may be placed in a table (see example below), right-justified at the top of the text. In this case, a picture, if any, is placed below the common name and above the placement. If the page is about a species, the "Children" section is replaced with a Binomial name section (see Bald eagle for an example).
If a taxon has a single child, they may be on the same page with a redirect from the other. For instance, since Ginkgo is the only genus in Ginkgophyta, Ginkgophyta, Ginkgoales, and Ginkgoaceae all redirect to Ginkgo. Similarly Cuscuta is the only genus in Cuscutaceae (and the common name dodder redirects there too).
If a taxon is also the common name for the same organism, the text should go above the placement, as in Hippopotamus. If the common name covers more than the taxon, as in octopus, that shall be noted.
If a taxon is a homonym of a word that is not the name of an organism, it or the non-organism shall be distinguished. For instance, Rubiaceae has links to the genera Alberta (plant)[?] and Augusta (plant)[?] to avoid confusion with the places Alberta and Augusta.
If a taxon is a homonym of the common name of a different organism, they may be placed on the same page with a horizontal rule between them. See nasturtium for an example.
Hierarchy Definition No classification of the Tree of Life has been defined. See this example on dividing a topic into a hierarchy.
General Strategy and Discussion forum
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What colors to make the HTML table backgrounds
Animalia | pink |
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Plantae | lightgreen |
Fungi | lightblue |
Protista | khaki |
Bacteria | lightgrey |
Archaea | darkgray |
Note that darkgray is spelt with an a, while lightgrey is spelt with an e, thanks to a quirk in the HTML standard. Changing these will work on some browsers, but not all.
Plants | ||||
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Scientific classification | ||||
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Nonvascular plants
Bryophyta - mosses . . Vascular plants Seedless Psilophyta - whisk ferns . . Seeded Gymnosperms[?] Coniferophyta - conifers . . Angiosperms Magnoliophyta - flowering plants . . | ||||
Ref. source-abbrev page-name (http://aaa.bbb.com/dir/page) yyyy-mm-dd |
(example from Plant)
Page contents:
Flowering plants | ||||
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Classes | ||||
Liliopsida (monocots) Magnoliopsida (dicots) . . | ||||
Ref. source-abbrev page-name (http://aaa.bbb.com/dir/page) yyyy-mm-dd |
(example from Flowering_plant)
Dicotyledons | ||||||
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Orders | ||||||
Subclass Asteridae     Asterales (sunflowers) - 1 family     Callitrichales - 2 families . . Subclass Caryophyllidae     Caryophyllales - 12 families . . | ||||||
Ref. source-abbrev page-name (http://aaa.bbb.com/dir/page) yyyy-mm-dd |
(example from Magnoliopsida)
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Families | ||||||||||
Acanthaceae . . | ||||||||||
Ref. Uni-Ham 52efam (http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/b-online/d52/52efam.htm) 2002-09-06 |
(example from Scrophulariales)
Scrophulariaceae | ||||||||||
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Genera | ||||||||||
Agalinis[?] Raf. -- false foxglove . . and about 200 more. | ||||||||||
Ref. source-abbrev page-name (http://aaa.bbb.com/dir/page) yyyy-mm-dd |
(example from Scrophulariaceae)
Spiderwort | ||||||||||||
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Species | ||||||||||||
Tradescantia bracteata Small ex Britt. . . | ||||||||||||
Ref. source-abbrev page-name (http://aaa.bbb.com/dir/page) yyyy-mm-dd |
(example from Spiderwort)
White ash | ||||||||||||||
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Binomial nomenclature | ||||||||||||||
Fraxinus americana L. | ||||||||||||||
* Some botanists include the Oleaceae in the order Lamiales. |
(example from White_ash)
This box also shows a comment on the botany; on this level the info should not be included in the text, but the taxobox needs it.
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