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Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles

Welcome to WikiProject Turtles. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Turtles and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

Recent changes to turtle articles
A loggerhead sea turtle swimming effortlessly.
A loggerhead sea turtle at the Georgia Aquarium.

Mission

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We will expand and organise Wikipedia's turtle articles.

Things you can do

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Peer review

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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

To create

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Extinct turtles
Subgenus redirects:Chelodina Chelodina, Macrochelodina
Others

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Guidelines and things to include

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WikiProject Turtles
 
Scientific classification  
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Testudines
Suborder: Cryptodira
Superfamily: Testudinoidea
Family: Emydidae
Genus: Clemmys
Ritgen, 1828
Species:
C. guttata
Binomial name
Clemmys guttata
(Schneider, 1792)[2]
 
Synonyms
Genus synonymy[2]
Species synonymy[2]
  • 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):
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  • 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.

Images

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Pictures

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

 
A painted turtle (this image looks good in the article).

Range maps

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

 
A distribution map for the Bog turtle

Image labeling

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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:

[[File:Painted turtle.jpg|thumb|220px|left|alt=An adult painted turtle specimen pointed toward the viewer with its head raised and facing towards its right.|A painted turtle (this image looks good in [[Painted turtle|the article]]).]]

Participants Participants

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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)[reply]
  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.[reply]
  8. Jak474 (talk)
  9. Lfstevens (talk) 07:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC) Hawksbill and green sea turtles[reply]
  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

Optional userbox

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Assessment

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Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles/Assessment

Hot articles

2 edits Nubian flapshell turtle
2 edits Largest prehistoric animals
2 edits 2004 in paleontology
1 edits Suwannee alligator snapping turtle
1 edits 2017 in paleontology
1 edits 2018 in reptile paleontology
1 edits Red-eared slider
1 edits Hermann's tortoise
1 edits Ouachita map turtle

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 31 July 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

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Articles

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Featured content

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  Bog turtle
  Galápagos tortoise
  Loggerhead sea turtle
  Painted turtle
  Turtle
  Wells and Wellington affair

Good articles

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  Archelon
  Wood turtle

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  List of Testudines families
  U.S. state reptiles
  List of reptiles of Michigan

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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.

Candidates

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 Marginated tortoise

New articles

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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.

Article alerts

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Categories

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Subcategories of Turtles:

Templates

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

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Resources

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For biological and ecological information
  • Carr, Archie (1952). Handbook of Turtles: The Turtles of the United States, Canada, and Baja California. Handbooks of American Natural History. Binghamton, New York: Comstock Publishing Associates.
  • Ernst, Carl H.; Barbour, Roger William (1989). Turtles of the World. Washington, D.C., and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 0-87474-414-8.
  • Ernst, Carl H.; Barbour, Roger William; Lovich, Jeffery E. (1994). Dutro, Nancy P. (ed.). Turtles of the United States and Canada. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-346-9.
  • Ernst, Carl H.; Lovich, Jeffery E. (2009). Turtles of the United States and Canada (2 ed.). JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9121-2.
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}}
  • Fritz, Uwe; Havaš, Peter (2007). "Checklist of chelonians of the world". Vertebrate Zoology. 57 (2): 149–368. doi:10.3897/vz.57.e30895.149-368&rft.date=2007&rft_id=info:doi/10.3897/vz.57.e30895&rft.aulast=Fritz&rft.aufirst=Uwe&rft.au=Havaš, Peter&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.3897%2Fvz.57.e30895&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Wikipedia:WikiProject Turtles" class="Z3988"> Detailed, with synonyms and distribution.
  • IUCN Red List Overview IUCN Conservation status
  • 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.
  • Testudines taxonomy ITIS (out of date) Turtle data of around 2004
Images
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Tools

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

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ van Dijk, P.P. (2011). "Clemmys guttata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group: e.T4968A11103766. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T4968A11103766.en. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Rhodin 2010, p. 000.104


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