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User:Snoteleks

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Biologist and MSc in Biodiversity from Madrid, Spain; currently in Canada working on my PhD on protists. Seeking to expand the public availability of scientific knowledge. Founder of WikiProject Protista (all are welcome!). My main interests revolve around the evolution and biodiversity of protists and other organisms.

Ongoing projects

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Articles

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A list of all the articles I've either created or overhauled (i.e. given major improvements to, to the point where the majority of text/edits are mine), in order of article quality.

Good Articles

B-Class Articles

C-class Articles

Start-class Articles

Stub-class Articles

List-class Articles

Templates

Kind support from wonderful people

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Microbiology barnstar
For your absolutely amazing work at WikiProject Protista. I'm normally hanging around WikiProject Insects and WP:GA, and came across your work browsing the backlong. For an editor who's only been around for two years or so, you're work is amazing quality. Keep it up!!! 🏵️Etrius (Us) 03:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
The Tree of Life Barnstar
For your first GA review, and another successful promotion with Parvilucifera, congratulations! Thank you for your continued hard work in improving the quality of diverse organisms on Wikipedia. Fritzmann (message me) 19:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
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Sometimes I draw images for Wikipedia, such as the following:

Useful resources

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  • Tool that gives automatic citation templates just with the DOI or URL (shoutout to @Plantdrew, I discovered this in their profile)
  • Synonyms of the most frequent concepts used in taxonomic articles, to avoid repetition when writing:
    • group (taxa): collection, assemblage, category, assortment...
    • has (cellular structures): contains, exhibits, presents, displays, possesses, carries...
    • is composed of (clades): comprises, includes, groups, contains, encompasses...
    • evolved (synapomorphies): obtained, gained, acquired, inherited (HGT), achieved...
    • considered (consensus): regarded as, known to be, treated as...