Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles#Participants

We will expand and organise Wikipedia's turtle articles.

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If you have expanded an article and would like other to look at it and offer constructive commentary, you can put it up for a Peer review.

; Peer review

;Extinct turtles

:Subgenus redirects:Chelodina Chelodina, Macrochelodina

;Others

See also Red links and Articles in other languages but not on English Wikipedia

: More article issues may be found on https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Turtles.html

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| image = Clemmys guttataHolbrookV1P11A Flipped.jpg

| image_alt= Two drawings of a spotted turtle that show both the top (carapace) and bottom (plastron). The claws are long and the turtle is dark in color

| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |last=van Dijk |first=P.P. |year=2011 |title=Clemmys guttata |page=e.T4968A11103766 | publisher = Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T4968A11103766.en |access-date=15 December 2019 }}

| genus = Clemmys

| parent_authority = Ritgen, 1828

| species = guttata

| authority = (Schneider, 1792)

| range_map = Spotted turtle distribution 1.TIF

| synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets=true

|title=Genus synonymy{{Harnvb|Rhodin|2010|p=000.104}}

|Clemmys
Ritgen, 1828

|Chelopus
Rafinesque, 1832

|Nanemys
Agassiz, 1857

|Melanemys
Shufeldt, 1919

}}

{{collapsible list|bullets=true

|title=Species synonymy

|Testudo guttata
Schneider, 1792

|Testudo punctata
Schoepff, 1792

|Geoclemmys sebae
Gray, 1869

}}

}}

For species articles, try to follow the FAs and GAs. (See also ideas from another animal Primates/Article format.) Perhaps something like the following for a general layout (adaptation is welcome of course):

Lead

• Taxonomy
• Description
• Distribution and habitat

:*Population features

:*Evolutionary history and fossil record

• Ecology and behavior

:*Predators

:*Diet

:*Movement

:*Life cycle

• Conservation

Very widespread species and those affected by humans to a measurable extent should also include a "Relations with humans" section. Be sure, as always, to include references.

A taxonomy box should be included. To the right is one for the Spotted turtle. The taxonomic classification of the turtle is expressed here. It can also include taxonomic synonyms, conservation status, and a range map.

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Every species article should have at least one picture of the animal. Here's an example:

File:Painted turtle.jpg).]]

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Readers want each animal's range mapped. For a Featured Article, it is a requirement. An example:

File:Bog turtle distribution map.svg]]

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• A thoughtful caption (concise, but pointing out important features and connecting the subject to the article) should be included with every image.
• Alternative text helps blind readers "see" images, so it should be added as well.
• Maps should be carefully labeled when multiple species or time periods of range are displayed.
• All charts should have well-described axes.

Example: For the turtle photograph above, the code reads:

{{Font color|green|File:Painted turtle.jpg).]]}}

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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest (please sign with three tildes "~~~"). Also, try to keep the list alphabetical, thank you.

1. Borophagus (talk) Amateur palaeontologist working on articles on extinct pleurodires.
2. Crazyaboutturtles (talk) Hobbyist turtle keeper. Especially interested in making turtle knowledge available in the languages I speak: Dutch, German, English
3. D. Gordon E. Robertson (talk) – amateur naturalist and photographer
4. Faendalimas (talk) Specialist Turtle Taxonomist, have worked with side-necks, soft-shells and tortoises mostly, including fossil forms. Happy to help with nomenclatural issues.
5. Hyperik ⌜talk⌟ 22:21, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
6. —innotata Interested, and thought of proposing such a project earlier. I'll put my name here for now and see if I get involved.
7. LJ (talk) 07:12, 25 December 2021 (UTC) biochemist, law student, amateur naturalist as well. enjoys fixing typos and building out existing articles.
8. Jak474 (talk)
9. Lfstevens (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC) Hawksbill and green sea turtles
10. Wikilouque ^(talk) Researched distribution, abundance, and morphology of map turtles for Master's degree, works in conservation, and naturalist.
11. Snow ^{let's rap} Scientist and amateur naturalist. I enjoy writing articles for taxons that are quiet little unsung heroes of the natural world. :)
12. Vidasubacuatica (talk) – amateur naturalist

Use the code {{tlx|User Turtles}}

to show this:

{{User Turtles}}

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This will automatically add you in the :Category:WikiProject Turtles participants

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• Popular pages with raw page views
• [http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Turtle&namespace=&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=1000&offset=1&sorta=Score&sortb=Quality by scoring] of Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

{{Classicon|FA}} Bog turtle

{{Classicon|FA}} Galápagos tortoise

{{Classicon|FA}} Loggerhead sea turtle

{{Classicon|FA}} Painted turtle

{{Classicon|FA}} Turtle

{{Classicon|FA}} Wells and Wellington affair

{{Classicon|GA}} Archelon

{{Classicon|GA}} Wood turtle

{{Classicon|FL}} List of Testudines families

{{Classicon|FL}} U.S. state reptiles

{{Classicon|FL}} List of reptiles of Michigan

See the /Turtles Featured Pictures subpage for a display:

• Six images are Wikipedia Featured Pictures.
• Eight images are Commons Featured Pictures.
• One image is honored by both groups.

{{Icon|DFA}}Marginated tortoise

Please feel free to list your new turtles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any disputed templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• Cold-stunning

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Subcategories of Turtles:

• Category tool: [https://petscan1.wmflabs.org/ PetScan]

Template:WikiProject Turtles

When {{WikiProject Turtles|class=|importance=}} is placed at the top of a talk page, it yields the following banner:

{{WikiProject Turtles|category=no}}

• Order {{tlx|Testudines}}
• Suborder {{tlx|Pleurodira}} Covers families of Chelidae, Pelomedusidae and Podocnemididae
• Families {{tlx|Chelydridae}} {{tlx|Cheloniidae}} {{tlx|Kinosternidae}} {{tlx|Emydidae}} {{tlx|Geoemydidae}} {{tlx|Testudinidae}} {{tlx|Trionychidae}}

;For biological and ecological information

• {{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Archie |authorlink1=Archie Carr |title=Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California |series=Handbooks of American Natural History |publisher=Comstock Publishing Associates |year=1952 |location=Binghamton, New York}}
• {{cite book |last1=Ernst |first1=Carl H. |last2=Barbour |first2=Roger William |title=Turtles of the World |chapter= |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |year=1989 |location=Washington, D.C., and London |pages= |accessdate= |isbn=0-87474-414-8}}

• {{cite book |last1=Ernst |first1=Carl H. |last2=Barbour |first2=Roger William |last3=Lovich |first3=Jeffery E. |title=Turtles of the United States and Canada |editor1=Dutro, Nancy P. |publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press |year=1994 |location=Washington and London |pages= |accessdate= |isbn=1-56098-346-9}}
• {{cite book |last1=Ernst |first1=Carl H. |last2=Lovich |first2=Jeffery E. |title=Turtles of the United States and Canada |edition=2 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-9121-2 |pages= |accessdate = |year=2009}}

;Taxonomy checklists and Conservation status

• {{cite journal| collaboration=Turtle Extinctions Working Group |author1=Rhodin, A.G.J. |author2=Thomson, S. |author3=Georgalis, G. |author4=Karl, H.-V. |author5=Danilov, I.G. |author6=Takahashi, A. |author7=de la Fuente, M.S. |author8=Bourque, J.R. |author9=Delfino M. |author10=Bour, R. |author11=Iverson, J.B. |author12=Shaffer, H.B. |author13=van Dijk, P.P. |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000e_fossil_checklist_v1_2015.pdf |title=Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians.|journal=Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66.|doi=10.3854/crm.5.000e.fossil.checklist.v1.2015|year=2015}}

• {{cite journal|url=http://images.turtleconservancy.org/documents/2017/crm-7-checklist-atlas-v8-2017.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2017 update: Annotated checklist and atlas of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution, and conservation status(8th Ed.)|journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=7 |accessdate=October 4, 2019|date=August 3, 2017 |last1=Rhodin | first1=Anders G.J. |last2=Inverson |first2=John B. |last3=Roger |first3=Bour |last4=Fritz |first4=Uwe |last5=Georges |first5=Arthur |last6=Shaffer |first6=H. Bradley |last7=van Dijk |first7=Peter Paul |page= |ISBN=978-1-5323-5026-9}}

• {{Anchor|CITEREFRhodin2012}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v5_2012.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2012 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |accessdate= |date=2012-12-31 |last1=Rhodin |first1=Anders G.J. |last2=van Dijk |first2=Peter Paul |last3=Inverson |first3=John B. |last4=Shaffer |first4=H. Bradley |last5=Roger |first5=Bour |page=000.xx |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616121324/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v5_2012.pdf |archivedate=2013-06-16 |url-status=dead }} Includes Conservation status, English naming and distribution
• {{Anchor|CITEREFRhodin2011}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v4_2011.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2011 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |accessdate= |date=2011-12-31 |last1=Rhodin |first1=Anders G.J. |last2=van Dijk |first2=Peter Paul |last3=Inverson |first3=John B. |last4=Shaffer |first4=H. Bradley |last5=Roger |first5=Bour |page=000.xx |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120131102839/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v4_2011.pdf |archivedate=2012-01-31 |url-status=dead }}
• {{Anchor|CITEREFRhodin2010}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2010 update: Annotated checklist of taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and conservation status |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |accessdate= |date=2010-12-14 |last1=Rhodin |first1=Anders G.J. |last2=van Dijk |first2=Peter Paul |last3=Inverson |first3=John B. |last4=Shaffer |first4=H. Bradley |page=000.xx |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717125632/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v3_2010.pdf |archivedate=2011-07-17 |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v2_2009.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2009 checklist |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |accessdate= |date=2009 |author= |page= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406124328/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v2_2009.pdf |archivedate=2016-04-06 |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v1_2008.pdf |title=Turtles of the world, 2008 checklist |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=1 |accessdate= |date=2008-12-08 |last1=Rhodin |first1=Anders G.J. |last2=van Dijk |first2=Peter Paul |last3=Parham |first3=James F. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423011942/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Accounts/crm_5_000_checklist_v1_2008.pdf |archivedate=2012-04-23 |url-status=dead }}
• {{cite journal |url=http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Articles/Turtle_Taxonomy_Working_Group_2007b.pdf |title=An Annotated List of Modern Turtle Terminal Taxawith Comments on Areas of Taxonomic Instability and Recent Changes (2007) |journal=Chelonian Research Monographs |volume=5 |accessdate= |date=2007 |author= |page= |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423011938/http://www.iucn-tftsg.org/wp-content/uploads/file/Articles/Turtle_Taxonomy_Working_Group_2007b.pdf |archivedate=2012-04-23 |url-status=dead }}

• {{Anchor|CITEREFFritz2007}}{{cite journal |journal=Vertebrate Zoology |title=Checklist of chelonians of the world |year=2007 |first1=Uwe |last1=Fritz |last2=Havaš |first2=Peter |volume=57 |issue=2 |pages= 149–368|doi=10.3897/vz.57.e30895 |id= |doi-access=free }} Detailed, with synonyms and distribution.
• [http://www.iucnredlist.org/about/red-list-overview IUCN Red List Overview] IUCN Conservation status
• [http://www.reptile-database.org/db-info/taxa.html#C8 Order Testudines - Turtles], The Reptile Database. Often out of date taxonomy but drilling down to the detail level does give a useful list of references.
• [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=173749 Testudines taxonomy] ITIS (out of date) Turtle data of around 2004

;Images

• [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=&l=comm&ct=0&mt=all&adv=1 Flickr search with content for commercial use]
• [http://www.noaa.gov/ US Fed website] with great sea turtle images.
• [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/39532-Testudines/browse_photos?photo_license=cc0&grouping=taxon_id iNaturalist image search]

;Common names

• Rhodin 2010 and Rhodin 2011 both have common names
• [http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/search iucn red list]
• [http://wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/ Authors: C.H. Ernst, R.G.M. Altenburg & R.W. Barbour.] Search turtles
• [http://www.chelonia.org/byspecies.htm World Chelonian Trust]
• [http://www.austinsturtlepage.com/Info/species_list.htm austins turtle page]
• [https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/39532-Testudines iNaturalist. Lots of user provided information]
• https://www.reptilefact.com/category/turtles

:Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
• [http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/HotArticles/?category=&name=WikiProject+Amphibians+and+Reptiles&num=1&unit=WEEK HotArticles] - Shows most edited articles
• [http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/altviewer.py/ Altviewer] View the alternative wording for images. Accessibility for the partially blind.
• [http://toolserver.org/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php?wikilang=en Category Scan tool]
• [http://toolserver.org/~magnus/makeref.php Reference generator]. Not 100% for FA but an easy start for referencing.
• [http://www.webcitation.org Webcitation.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130224192513/http://webcitation.org/ |date=2013-02-24 }} to archive online resources

• Commons:Graphic Lab/Map workshop
• Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Map workshop
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
• [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Turtle WikiMedia commons] central resource of images. Use search for species.

WikiProject Turtles is an offshoot of WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles. We maintain close ties with our mother project.

:WikiProject Science.

::WikiProject Biology

:::WikiProject Tree of Life

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Other related WikiProjects:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Extinction

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