Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian biota
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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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
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.
Article alerts
- Good article nominees
- 17 Oct 2014 – Australian raven (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Casliber (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Sep 2014 – Jack jumper ant (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Burklemore1 (t · c); see discussion
Open tasks
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Monthly Project Article:
Other Articles to work on
- Reptiles of Australia to featured list.
- Amphibians of Australia to featured article.
- Birds of Australia to featured article.
- Fish in Australia direction required see talk page .
- Expand and create articles related to native Australia fungi.
Guidelines for new stubs
- Few if any biota items are found in all of Australia, literally - many stubs have found in Australia with no specified region or state.
- (in process)
Participants
Please add your name here, and indicate areas of interest. Please try to keep the list in alphabetical order.
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- 99of9 (talk · contribs) Photographs of anything I see
- Aliwright01 (talk · contribs) Australian plants, specifically pisonia umbellifera.
- Burklemore1 (talk · contribs) - Australian ants
- BoundaryRider (talk · contribs) - flora, reptiles, birds, invertebrates, ecology, ecosystems, cryptozoology, photos
- Chipmunkdavis (talk · contribs) - General interest in all Fauna, with particular interest in marine animals
- Enlil Ninlil - Any extinct animal, doing extinct Diprotodontia now.
- Figaro (talk · contribs) - Mainly marsupials, monotremes and birds
- Gderrin (talk · contribs) - Australian plant genera
- Gnangarra (talk · contribs) - Anything/everything - available for an independant review of any article
- JarrahTree (talk · contribs) - project maintenance
- Junglenut (talk · contribs) - interested mainly in Australia's rainforest flora
- LiquidGhoul (talk · contribs) - Mostly Australian frogs, but will help with anything.
- Maias (talk · contribs) - Mainly (but not exclusively) birds
- User:MargaretRDonald - Mainly botany.
- yoyo - Helping out any way I can.
- User:Ds2320 - Australian beetles
not currently active participants (more than one year since last edit)
- Aikidesigns (talk · contribs) - anything and everything, particular expertise with birds (esp. Marbled Frogmouth, Black-breasted Buttonquail, rare/threatened forest/rainforest-dependent species)
- Atlantis Hawk (talk · contribs) (Everything to do with Australian Fauna)
- 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.
- Candyman0000 (talk · contribs) - Will help with all fauna, specializing in reptiles, amphibians, and marine life.
- Carbonrodney (talk · contribs) - Fauna and Flora
- Elomis (talk · contribs) - Helping out any way I can.
- Fred.e (talk · contribs) - 'General' reader, offering review and eclectic comment. Images soon.
- Froggydarb (talk · contribs) - Mostly Australian frogs, and anything else I know a bit about.
- Geematic (talk · contribs) - Australian frogs and some SA freshwater fish
- Gudzwabofer (talk · contribs) - Flora, and a little on biomes perhaps.
- Helicarion (talk) 06:16, 31 July 2016 (UTC) - Invertebrates, fauna and flora of eastern Australia, esp. FNQ
- HelloMojo (talk · contribs) - All things, specialising in flora
- Mdk572 (talk · contribs) - Dogs, birds
- Mutley (talk · contribs) - Mainly Thylacine
- Welbergen (talk · contribs) Australian fauna, especially mammals and birds
- Wilhelm Klave (talk · contribs) Marsupials, Monotremes, especially the rare and extinct species
Featured content
- Fauna of Australia
- Cane Toad
- Emu
- Green and Golden Bell Frog
- Platypus
- Short-beaked Echidna
- Tasmanian Devil
- Thylacine
- White's Tree Frog
- Banksia brownii
- Banksia integrifolia
- Banksia epica
- Banksia telmatiaea
- Banksia ericifolia
- Banksia spinulosa
Candidates
Good articles
Candidates
Did you knows (DYKs)
- Barrier Reef Anemonefish - 15 January 2007
New articles
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.
- Cerbera inflata created February 2021 Junglenut | talk 07:37, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Elaeocarpus culminicola created September 2020 Junglenut | talk 07:37, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
- Desert_rat-kangaroo article was very significantly changed and expanded. I added a distribution map as well. Any photographs of museum specimens of this species or photographs of its habitat would be very, very welcome.Wilhelm Klave (talk) 14:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
- Red-browed Finch is no-longer a stub. --naught101 (talk) 12:48, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
- Dermocybe Austroveneta •Elomis• 10:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
- Bull Arab article on a (relatively new) crosss-bred Australian dog needs help. I tried to help but all my changes got reverted. AWHS (talk) 08:27, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
Templates
- {{APNI}}, for citing the Australian Plant Names Index.
Categories
- Category:Fauna of Australia
- Fauna by state or territory
- Category:Flora of Australia - Proposed usage convention at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian biota/Categories.
- Flora by state or territory
- Flora by taxonomy