Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals#Naming conventions

This WikiProject aims primarily to describe, create and maintain articles on all animals, that is, all species belonging to the kingdom Animalia. This project's scope also includes zoologists and zoology-related articles.

Goals:

1. Create and maintain articles about animals to an encyclopedic standard.
2. Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Animalia.
3. Maintain :Category:Animals and its subcategories.
4. Assess and rate articles under the scope of Wikiproject Animals.

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• :(By taxa)
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• Ant task force
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• Molluscs:
• WikiProject Bivalves
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• Vertebrates:
• WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
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• WikiProject Birds
• Domestic pigeon task force
• WikiProject Poultry
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• Horse breeds task force
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• :(Other)
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• WikiProject Zoo

• WikiProject Plants is the project concerning the kingdom Plantae, which WikiProject Animals was modeled after.
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{{See also|Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms|Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)}}

Common (vernacular) names are not capitalised (except where proper names appear).

For articles where a common name is used for the article title, the consensus way to write the combination of common name plus scientific name in the lead is (per this discussion):

::The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an even-toed ungulate mammal....

Namely, bold common name followed by bolded and italic scientific name in parentheses.

Usage
To use this, simply add

{{The Fauna Barnstar|message ~~~~}}

to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message indicating why they are receiving the award.

{{WikiProject cleanup listing|Animals}}

• Specific category example: {{WikiProject cleanup group|Orphaned articles|Animals}}
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cladogram requests - Cladogram requests page
• SpeciesHelper - For species articles, automatically adds the short description, speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template.

• Alphabetic results: [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/alpha/Animals.html Alphabetic cleanup listing]
• By category results: [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Animals.html By category cleanup listing]
• Specific category: [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Animals.html#Orphaned%20articles Orphaned articles cleanup listing] Note: Spaces in the category name need to be replaced with %20

:Main tool page: "tools:~dispenser/view/Tools|toolserver.org"

• "tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks" - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• "tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks" - Edit and repair external links
• "tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver" - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• "tools:~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer|Peer reviewer" - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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