Project:WikiProject Ediacaran
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A group of Wikipedians have come toghether to form a WikiProject about the Ediacaran Biota that leads to improve articles in the scope of the Ediacaran. This WikiProject encourages new users to join it to improve the articles that are affiliated with this WikiProjects.
Goals
WikiProject:Ediacaran is aimed to better organize, describe and improve articles affiliated to the Ediacaran Biota. This WikiProject's scope also includes articles relating to Palaeontology as a whole.
=Individual goals=
1. Maintain and Create articles about the Ediacaran and its Biota to better expand them to an encyclopedic level
2. Better expand and find citations about the Ediacaran Biota
3. Checking mistakes in :Category:Ediacaran and :Category:Ediacaran life
Similar WikiProjects
A list of similar WikiProjects
=WikiProjects affiliated with WP:EDIACARAN pages=
A list of WikiProjects that may be affiliated with some of the pages within WP:EDIACARAN
- WikiProject Australia - For members of the Ediacaran Biota that are found in Australia, more specifically, South Australia
- WikiProject Canada - For members of the Ediacaran Biota that are found in Canada, more specifically, Newfoundland and Labrador
- WikiProject China - For members of the Ediacaran Biota that are found in China
- WikiProject Russia - For members of the Ediacaran Biota that are found in Russia, more specifically, the White Sea
- WikiProject Ukraine - For members of the Ediacaran Biota that are found in Ukraine, more specifically, Podolia
Article Content
Articles which are focused around the Ediacaran and its Biota are to not stray off from the rules that Wikipedia has put in place for how articles should be made and what the quality standard should be. An example of an article is Pteridinium. A number of articles within the scope of the Ediacaran are stubs due to the low amount of references being for that animals. If you can't find a reference for an article you wanna make, it's best to not make that article other than making up information.
Participants
There are two main things you need to do in order to be part of WikiProject:Ediacaran. Those three things are:
- Writing your name on the list of participants in chronological order
- Adding one of the Userboxes from the Userbox section by copy and pasting it onto your user page
=List of Participants=
--Add your name below this sentence in Chronological order--
Barnstar
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|rowspan="2" valign="top" | 100px |rowspan="2" | |style="font-size: x-large; padding: 0; vertical-align: bottom; height: 1.1em;" | The Ediacaran Barnstar |
| style="vertical-align: top; border-top: 1px solid gray;" | This award is given to those who have made significant contributions to articles that are part of WikiProject Ediacaran |
To reward this to the user you want it to have, simply copy and paste the temple from here Onto the users talk page. Remember to give a message as to why you have given the Barnstar to the user.
=Other WikiLove=
{{Template:A Tribrachidium for you}}
To give this to the respective user, copy and paste:
Onto the users talk page. Remember to give a reason as to why you're giving the user this Wikilove.
Userboxes
{{Template:Proud to be part of WP Ediacaran}}
{{Template:User is part of WP Ediacaran}}
{{Template:User of WikiProject Ediacaran}}
By adding any of these Userboxes to your userpage you can help spread WikiProject:Ediacaran and show that you're part of it. It's also requested that you add your name to the list of participants to further show you're part of WikiProject:Ediacaran
Categories
The categories :Category:Ediacaran and :Category:Ediacaran life are the most important categories to WikiProject:Ediacaran. These categories should be mainted as much as possible as they aim to categorize Ediacaran articles.