User talk:EditorCrabTwinsLibrary

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	Creating a new page. Keep up the good work! PawPatroler (talk) 15:30, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Fade258 (talk) 16:42, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Writing about genera

Hi, EditorCrab. I wanted to talk to you about writing about genera versus writing about species. I'd suggest trying to write about species first until you have more experience. This is because writing about genera is much, much harder – it's even very difficult for me. Descriptions of species in scientific journals will give you every detail you could want regarding their physical appearance etc. The problem with genera is that it's usually way harder to find a proper physical description, since most papers are just focused on describing one species. It's also difficult to talk about a distribution, behavior, etc.

There's a concept on Wikipedia called WP:SYNTH that means we can't take several papers about different species in a genus and draw conclusions about the genus itself, so what you really need is one of those rare genus-level descriptions in a scientific paper. Even then, you have to take care not to let your knowledge of species bleed into the article about the genus and only stick to what reliable sources say about the genus as a whole. That's why there are plenty of fleshed-out species articles, but many genus articles are just a bare-bones description at best followed by a list of species. While that does mean work needs to be done on genus articles, it also shows that it can be worthwhile to master easier problems before tackling much harder ones. Have a good one! Edit: I forgot to mention that creating articles about the species in the genus first lets you build up a library of resources that you can use for the much harder genus article. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 02:12, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]