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About
[edit source]This template is used to automatically create a standard category structure throughout Category:Taxa by year of formal description.
Related discussions include, but are not limited to (oldest to newest):
WikiProjects
[edit source]- WT:LEPIDOPTERA#Post-Caftaric category straightening-out/clean-up.
- WT:TREE OF LIFE#Request for comment: categorizing by year of formal description
- WT:TREE OF LIFE#Any desire to eliminate 'X described in the YYth century' type container categories?
- WT:INSECTS#'Insects described in' category tree mostly ok?
- WT:PALAEONTOLOGY#'Taxa described in' categories
- WT:MARINELIFE#Bivalves/Cephalopods/Chitons described in YYYY categories
- WT:PALAEONTOLOGY#Fossil parataxa described in YEAR
- WT:TREE OF LIFE#Category:Sponges vs. Category:Poriferans
Decadal CfDs
[edit source]- 2018 August 26#Category:Plants described in the 1750s
- 2018 September 22#Category:Spiders described in the 1750s
- 2018 October 3#Category:Animals described in the 1750s
- 2018 October 8#Category:Bacteria described in the 1780s
- 2018 October 13#Category:Fungi described in the 1750s
- 2018 October 18#Category:Archaea described in the 1920s
Non-decadal CfDs
[edit source]- 2014 November 26#Category:Invertebrates described in 1896 (and arthropods)
- 2018 October 5#Category:Vertebrates described in 1771
- 2018 October 12#Category:Lepidoptera described in 1758
- 2018 November 4#Category:Mites described in 1959
- 2018 November 4#Category:<Animal>s described in <year> with very confined scope and small size
- Anemones, ants, aphids, bees, caddisflies, centipedes, cicadas, damselflies, dragonflies, fleas, flies, lacewings, mantises, scale insects, sea cucumbers, stink bugs, termites, ticks, urchins, & wasps.
- 2024 August 9#Category:Ants described in 1758
- 2025 July 30#Category:<Animal>s described in <year> with very confined scope
- Bees, bugs, cockroaches, damselflies, flies, grasshoppers, sawflies, & wasps.
If you wish to make significant changes, please discuss at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life first.
Creating new category trees
[edit source]- Avoid creating overly-specific categories, especially those where all years contain a trivial number of pages. These categories do little to aid the overall structure, causing more disruption and ambiguity than order. These may be CFD'd, or even CSD'd, after some grace period for initial population; for example, if only several years have been created out of potentially several hundred, or if many years have been created but all contain a trivial number of pages.
- Chances are, there is already an appropriate category structure in place, which should be considered before creating new trees/branches.
- To create a new tree, copy an existing, similar tree in Module:Category described in year/config, and paste it in an appropriate spot in that table, following the same general table format, and updating any group-specific values and comments.
- If/when a new category tree is created, make sure that any red-linked parents categories are also created. You can find categories with red-linked parents here.
Usage
[edit source]{{Category described in year}}
No parameters are needed. Instead, the name of the calling category is used to determine its place in the tree.
If the calling category name is not recognized, then the default category tree is applied, which is configured for groups under animals, since animals have more sub-groups than non-animals.
Sitelinks
[edit source]- {{Commons}} links are automatically produced if either the (P373) property and/or an "Other sites" sitelink to commons exist at Wikidata. See Lua error in Module:Wd at line 633: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (Q9757156) for both uses. Duplicate values are ignored.
- {{Wikispecies}} links are automatically produced if the appropriate sitelink exists at Wikidata. See Lua error in Module:Wd at line 633: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (Q28467553) for an example.
Testing
[edit source]{{Category described in year|Spiders described in 1901}}
When placing this template in non-category space, i.e. for testing purposes, a category parameter is required.