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Author Names

The name section should contain the sanctioning author of the taxon. This should be linked to the appropriate Author Name article. We maintain articles in Wikispecies with minimum information and interwiki links to the appropriate Wikipedias.

Format of an Authority article

Heading information

First line should be dates of birth and death.

Second line can be a very brief description for clarification. This is generally nationality and specialty.

There may sometimes be more clarifying information, especially if there is another author with a similar name.

== Add links to the various Wikipedias

  [[de:Eduard Friedrich Poeppig]]
  [[en:Eduard Friedrich Poeppig]]
  [[fr:Eduard Friedrich Poeppig]]

It can be helpful to search all Wikipedias to see if an article exists. One can use Google to help with this. E.g. It you want to see if there are any articles for Eduard Poeppig, type site:wikipedia.org Eduard Poeppig in the Google search bar.

If there are no links then it may be appropriate to add an External links section with links to a biography or curiculum vitae.

 ==External links==
 * [http://www.nybg.org/bsci/staf/buck.html CV at The New York Botanical Gardens]

Kategorien

At the very least, the article needs to be added to the Taxon Authorities category. You can add the author to other appropriate categories.

 {{DEFAULTSORT:Buck, William Russell}}
 [[Category:Taxon Authorities]]
 [[Category:Botanists]]

We currently have categories for the following disciplines: Category:Arachnologists Category:Botanists Category:Bryologists Category:Carcinologists Category:Cnidariologists Category:Entomologists Category:Helminthologists Category:Herpetologists Category:Ichthyologists Category:Lichenologists Category:Malacologists Category:Microbiologists Category:Mycologists Category:Ornithologists Category:Palaeontologists Category:Zoologists See Category:Biologists and Category:Taxon Authorities for future disciplines not yet listed here.

Adding entries to Catalog:Taxon Authorities

Catalog:Taxon Authorities should contain the list of all taxon authorities referenced by Wikispecies. Authors are added alphabetically by last name. If they have an "official" abbreviation, it is listed in bold in parentheses. We consider IPNI to be the official source of abbreviations for botanists.

Add the link to the article along with dates.

References for Taxon Authors

There are a number of sources for information about Taxon Authors.

The French Wikipedia has a well developed Science history portal.

Most Wikipedias have lists by author abbreviation

There are also a number of Internet sources.

• For botanists IPNI is considered the official source for abbreviations
• For ornithologists zoonomen holds quite a bit of information.
• For marine biologists Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names (BEMON) gives a lot of background information.

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