Gumagamit:Lsjbot/COL2019-check/Introduction
The articles about plants and animals that Lsjbot created some years ago were based on the Catalogue of Life database from 2011 and 2013. I have used Lsjbot to compare the old articles with the most recent (2019) edition of Catalogue of Life. Taxonomy has changed a fair bit in the intervening years, so there are quite a lot of articles that need updating in various ways.
Lsjbot has created lists of these articles, sorted by type of action needed. Index to these list: Gumagamit:Lsjbot/COL2019-check/Types of articles.
The types are:
- Redirect: no longer valid taxon, now included in another taxon. Should be redirected to the other taxon.
- Move to: name changed, move article to new name.
- Move to (db): target for move found through CoL database.
- Move to (iw): target for move found through interwiki.
- Move to (trim): target for move found by removing superfluous periods and other improper characters.
- Delete: no longer found in database. Lsjbot cannot find a move or redirect target, neither through database nor through interwiki. Interwiki only to other bot-dominated wikis.
- Manual check: no longer found in CoL, but has interwiki to non-bot-dominated wikis (usually enwp).
- Multiple: several taxa with the same name in database. Disambiguation needed.
I intend to use Lsjbot to perform the redirect, move, and delete actions in the near future.