To add a cite in the visual editor, place the cursor at the desired location, select 'Cite' and paste the url (eg. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287207) into the dialogue box. Then select 'Generate' and then 'Insert' before saving. An additional link to the URL is not needed in the reference section as the in-line cite will generate the necessary text. For example, see Chrysaora helvola.
"In building consensus, there are times when everyone will argue that such or such change breaks their preferred rule and thus simply can't be made. It's a good time to apply the WP:Ignore all rules policy and focus on how the proposed change makes the encyclopedia better regardless of what the rules say."
"Don't follow written instructions mindlessly, but rather, consider how the encyclopedia is improved or damaged by each edit."
"The spirit of the rule trumps the letter of the rule. The common purpose of building a free encyclopedia trumps both. If this common purpose is better served by ignoring the letter of a particular rule, then that rule should be ignored."
"Editors who insist that rules must be followed for their own sake, without explaining how doing it will improve the encyclopedia, are themselves breaking the rules, as Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy."
IUCN assessment citations – as per the current recommendations for citing assessments as electronic journal articles, the best template to use is the cite iucn template, which is similar but preferable to the cite journal template, as it shortens the citations and facilitates updating links when they are changed, as well as retaining the access date (useful for a periodically updated source). The cite iucn template needs the input of only five fields (it helps to italicize the species name); it can generate the appropriate link from the page number alone (or less preferably, from the id or doi). An example for Myotis levis is:
| status_ref= <ref name=iucn>{{cite iucn |authors= Barquez, R. & Diaz, M.|title= ''Myotis levis'' (errata version published in 2017)|year= 2016|page= e.T14174A115121699 |accessdate= 19 January 2020}}</ref>
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Note: the hypoxic threshold depth is that below which oxygen levels decrease to a hypoxic level (<3.5 mL/L); the oxycline is a sharp decrease on oxygen levels with increasing depth.
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The following archived articles are mostly lists of megafauna that have been deleted from Wikipedia proper; see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of megafauna (the "List of semiaquatic organisms" archive has been reworked into List of semiaquatic tetrapods). I'm considering trying to work them into some sort of acceptable form, based on creating mass ranges for the various species to be listed under and abandoning any notion that the articles contain lists of all megafaunal species (which is impossible because there is no universally accepted definition of megafauna). The result would be lists of species with maximum adult mass above some limit, much as there are lists of mountains with an altitude above some limit, or cities with a population above some limit.
So, from my perspective, one of the useful things anyone wishing to work on these articles could do would be to look up approximate adult weights of each of the megafaunal species. The source of the weight figure should also be given (a reference preferably, but if simply from another Wikipedia article, that should be linked). While you're at it, it wouldn't hurt to use the citation templates. For extinct species, if no weight estimate is available, it would be appropriate to look up the weight of a living species of similar dimensions and body type (e.g., assume that an extinct proboscidean would have a weight similar to that of a living elephant of similar size). Perhaps it would be necessary to use allometry-based estimates in cases where no living species has a similar size and shape.
