User:Patrickneil/WikiBowerbird
A WikiBowerbird is a variety of WikiFauna.
Identification[edit]
Bowerbirds are Australian birds, and the male builds a nest that they decorate in order to attract a mate. Traditionally, these birds would pick colorful flowers to place around their nests, but the arrival of humans has caused them to increasingly collect items out of our trash. WikiBowerbirds similarly occupy an article or topic of articles which they take great pride in, and which they fill with colorful baubles: Panoramic images of their subject, picture galleries, video galleries, audio recordings, long tables of historic data, specialized templates, outlines, timelines, infoboxes, navboxes, mapboxes, zoomable maps, and the like. They focus on collecting these trappings of other articles as a way of inflating the importance of the article they're focused on, often while ignoring issues with prose or building a well-sourced article. Like bowerbirds, they aggressively protect these baubles when other editors try to remove them, and repeatedly fish them out of the trash.