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Quick introduction to the article and editorial work

For those in a hurry a quick guide. Then there is the whole thing again in more detail:

  • If you still have no experience with biology articles, you should at least the section How do I write a good biology article? have read and understood.
  • To do everything right, you should make biology also familiar with the guidelines.
  • Do you have any general questions you can ask biology it on the talk page of the editor.
  • Pick a working range of editorial and just get it started.

So, who has a little more time and inclination, for which there is the whole thing again now detail!

How do I write a good biology article?

The basic rules:

  • Rule number 1: No evidence, no edit! All information in the article must be populated with serious literature or other acceptable sources. Internet sites may be acceptable sources, but only if the content is supported by reliable sources. Sometimes it happens that websites are not permanently available. Therefore, it is advisable to compare Internet sources with other sources (eg, books, scientific journals and the like). Forums, blogs, YouTube videos, anonymous tips and usually purely personal homepages should not be used as references. Articles, whose information is not used to, complain to quality assurance and run the risk of being deleted. See also WP: QA.
  • Only renovate, then recreating: It is not necessarily the best approach, come hell or to search for missing articles to re-create this. Although there certainly are still gaps, we also have a variety of existing products that need to be expanded, because they contain only tenuous and at worst even incorrect information, please check the times here. Especially central to the understanding of important basic items should be given as soon as possible detailed and technically correct item. This is currently probably a more important task than to detect, for example, little-known species in remote regions that do not have a product. Also can be in improving and removing a lot to learn, which is useful for writing your own articles later.
  • Please check you before writing an article or removing the articles on related topics, best from among the validated products. They give you an idea of ​​how an article on such issues should be constructed. Often authors have previously made ​​thoughts and products in a very specific way, structured so that it would be good to also focus on new articles on this structure. For plants you can find this example in compact form as a model for plant products.
  • Check in animals, especially the articles directly via the parent and child taxa. Very unhappy it is, for example, if an article is written to a kind that includes less information about the type as already exist in the genus articles. Likewise, self-evident truths must not be repeated. In an article on a gazelle does not include general characteristics of cloven-hoofed animals, as they can also be expected in the corresponding parent item.

The lemma If a new item is written, a title must be found. There are two basic rules to follow:

  • Is there a German name, this should always be used. The scientific ( " Latin " ) the name should only be applied when there is no German name, which is the rule in fossil taxa.
  • Types receive a title in the singular. All higher taxa (ie, genera, families, orders, etc. ) receive a title in the plural. However, non-systematic groups of organisms ( zebra, jackal, Laus ) also obtained title in the singular.

Structure of an article The structure of an article does not follow a pattern, because you could press articles on subjects as varied as bison, jellyfish and chromosomes in identical formats difficult. Some things, however, are always the same:

A more detailed overview of this and everything else that is important to note, check out the guidelines biology.

Working areas of the editorial

In this section, now the working set are explained, where the employees of Biology Editors are busy with the improvement and expansion of biology articles.

The quality assurance

Usually, the listing is done in the quality assurance of the sighting of the new products that are at the beginning of the QA page again. Check the employee whether the item meet the basic requirements: Are they covered with sources? If the details are correct or plausible? Lack of vital information? If the formal requirements (category, Taxobox )? If the new items are not objectionable, they get a star. Otherwise, they wander into the quality assurance:

  • Expansion needy Article: Article which lack important information. They remain there until they are overworked and can be dismissed and sourceless products or unusable sources. The information of the article must be verified. If you can do that, the article is subsequently dismissed. If this were not possible, the article moves into the deletion candidate. Equally contradictory may be slightly out there that contradict the content of other articles.
  • Deletion candidate: Failed item, which may be disposed of. At extremely low quality and a marked failure to achieve policies Biology an article can be registered as a candidate for deletion.

Execution of automatically generated lists

Systematic Approach

Certain areas are handled by small groups in a concentrated and systematic manner. These projects are often subsidiary founded. Below there is a current survey:

Partially within these projects, some of which exist independently of so-called master plans. Here, an inventory of important and central item is made. These are found to be good, fair or poor. Then attempt should be made to help the articles to a better quality.

Often this is a work in the upper quality segment, which attempts to make the article to read values ​​or excellent. The following lists ( "Master Plan " ), there are:

  • Tribes of the animal kingdom
  • Mammals: orders of mammals
  • Birds: orders and families of birds
  • Orders and families of bony fish
  • Insects: Orders of insects

Of course, other master plans can be created and processed, both inside and outside of projects.

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