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I like butterflies. They are pretty.

I also like puppies. They are cute. But the articles we have on puppies are in a fairly decent shape and reflect our current understanding of eutherian phylogeny with reasonable precision. The articles we have on butterflies are an unholy mess. So I mostly edit articles on butterflies.

About me[edit]

Mission[edit]

I'm wikignoming around the butterfly articles:

  • Lepidoptera taxonomy is still evolving. Many articles give obsolete names for groups of butterflies or misrepresent their current rank and position. I'm moving and restructuring articles to bring our taxon tree into the twenty-first century.
  • Many early butterfly articles were created using vernacular names instead of scientific names as headwords. This has turned out to be unsustainable. Many species have more than one vernacular name. Many vernacular names are used for more than one species; a vernacular name commonly used to refer to one genus in the US can refer to the entire containing subfamily in the UK and to a species in an unrelated other tribe in Australia. Many common names are used to refer to three or four mutually disjoint taxa; some to five or more. As a result of this mess many articles have patently useless names and quite a few links go to the wrong article. I'm moving articles to scientific names, setting up redirects for lesser known vernacular names, and writing disambiguation pages as needed to try and straighten this out.
  • While I'm at it, I'm also updating articles to conform to a number of basic formatting conventions.
  • Making sure readers can find the species they are looking for if all they have is a common name and perhaps a vague geographic location involves editing a lot of disambiguation pages. I'm wikignoming around these too: I'm trying to make sure that pages follow established formatting guidelines, make sure that links go to the articles proper instead of to the dabs, and so on. If I edit an article that has nothing to do with butterflies it's usually because I'm cleaning up a dab.

Beat[edit]

Taxonomy Format Taxon
 
Lycaenidae
User:Noym/Curetinae: sunbeams
User:Noym/Liphyrinae
User:Noym/Lipteninae
Lycaeninae: copper copper (disambiguation), coppers, coppers
User:Noym/Miletinae: harvester, harvesters
User:Noym/Polyommatinae: blues
User:Noym/Poritiinae
User:Noym/Theclinae: hairstreaks, elfins
 
Nymphalidae
2011-09 User:Noym/Apaturinae (pending moves)
2011-09 User:Noym/Biblidinae (pending Sevenia/Sallya)
2011-09 User:Noym/Calinaginae
User:Noym/Charaxinae
User:Noym/Cyrestinae
User:Noym/Danainae
User:Noym/Heliconiinae: Heliconiinae: Heliconian, Heliconians, Longwing, Longwings - cap?
User:Noym/Libytheinae: Libytheinae: Snout butterfly, Snout butterflies - cap?
User:Noym/Limenitidinae
User:Noym/Morphinae
User:Noym/Nymphalinae
User:Noym/Satyrinae
 
Papilionidae: Swallowtail butterfly, Swallowtail butterflies - to do: get moved
2011-09 User:Noym/Baroniinae
2011-09 User:Noym/Parnassiinae (pending moves)
2011-09 User:Noym/Papilioninae
 
2011-09 Pieridae
2011-09 User:Noym/Coliadinae
2011-09 User:Noym/Dismorphiinae
2011-09 User:Noym/Pierinae
2011-09 User:Noym/Pseudopontiinae
 
2011-09 Riodinidae: Metalmark, Metalmarks, Metalmark butterfly, Metalmark butterflies
2011-09 User:Noym/Euselasiinae
2011-09 User:Noym/Nemeobiinae
2011-09 User:Noym/Riodininae

Assorted Notes to Self[edit]

Apaturinae[edit]

see here: User:Noym/Apaturinae

Lists to format[edit]

Unsorted[edit]

Things to do beyond being anal about taxon names:

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