User:Pigsonthewing

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en-N This user has a native understanding of English. This user has been editing Wikispecies for over ten years. This user is an administrator on Wikispecies. (verify) This user is a MediaWiki Interface administrator on Wikispecies. (verify) This user adds inline citations quickly and easily with Zotero.
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Hello. I'm Andy Mabbett. Please see en:User:Pigsonthewing for my main user page and declaration of interests.

Wikispecies

My interests on Wikispecies include building and improving templates, in order to enhance the standardisation of presentation and machine readability of our data, and to facilitate closer integration with Wikidata.

I also work on authority control for people.

Boilerplate

• {{subst:reftemp}}
• {{subst:TempBio}}
• {{Taxa by author}}
• {{Not Wikipedia}}

Useful

• Category:Candidates for speedy deletion
• Searching for journals:
  • https://www.hathitrust.org/
  • https://scholar.google.co.uk/
  • http://iphylo.org/~rpage/nz/index.php?publication=
  • https://www.worldcat.org/account/?page=searchItems
  • https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/search
• MediaWiki:Watchlist-details
• PatrolStats
• User:Pigsonthewing/common.css
• User:Pigsonthewing/common.js

Wikidata script

For those of you who also edit Wikidata, or wish to, I recommend the user script at d:User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js.

Simply add the code:

mw.loader.load("//www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript"); // Backlink: [[d:User:Yair rand/WikidataInfo.js]]

to your common.js page on this wiki, and it will insert, below a Wikispecies page's title, a link to the corresponding Wikidata item, or a link to create one if none exists. In the former case, it all also add the label and aliases, in your preferred language.

Overall

...I'd rather be out bird-watching.