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List of ant subfamilies

I think you shouldn't need to worry about the delegates closing the candidacy because there is an active discussion going on, and it seems that most comments have been addressed anyway. Due to that, I see no reason to close it and it would be irresponsible to do so. As long as Dudley Miles supports and if FunkMonk decides to support, four editors agreeing it should be promoted is plenty. Aside from that, what do you think about forming a good topic with the extinct Formiciinae? My work with Myrmeciinae is nearly complete, so I'm starting to plan another good topic. It would be something like this:

(Note that none of them are GA yet, but it's just a vision for now). Burklemore1 (talk) 04:22, 31 October 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Sounds lovely :) That would make Formiciinae the second or third subfamily article elevated to GA, and Titanomyrma is another important article well worth expanding. Another thing: Once the List of ant subfamilies nom has been closed and I have more time on my hands, I'd love to continue working on Tatuidris (another article mostly based on OA content). Do you have any pointers? It is a decent candidate as is, but I'm not ready to take it to GA yet. jonkerz ♠talk 17:54, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

I think Formiciinae will be promoted before Myrmeciinae becomes a GA, owing to how much info is known about it. I am open to work with you on Tatuidris, it will be nice to learn about its subfamily more. We should also try and work on Ankylomyrma, another Agroecomyrmecinae ant that is reasonably well studied (lots of "theories" about its biology too). I have also been looking at Megaponera, Amblyopone, Paraponera clavata and the extinct Sphecomyrma and its relatives as future nominees. Aside from that, Nothomyrmecia is a must to work on for this time around. Burklemore1 (talk) 18:13, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, we should first focus on Tatuidris because of how complete it looks. Do you have any suggestions on what could be done to it before nomination? Burklemore1 (talk) 18:17, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: I was thinking that the sections about pilosity variability and the eyes may be overly technical and not that important to the average reader, but let's find out what the reviewer thinks. I've nominated the article with you listed as a co-nominator. jonkerz ♠talk 14:26, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

OK, we'll just address whatever comments are given to us and do any further edits that the reviewer forgot to comment on. After Tatuidris, do you have any other ant articles we should expand from stub or GA? I think we'd do pretty well if we do further collaborations. :) Also, I am planning on nominating List of Myrmecia species for FL soon. It's not complete obviously, but what do you think of it so far? I know there are some images for the four species described in 2015, and others for M. croslandi, M. pavida, M. queenslandica and M. urens, but I need to contact the original owners for permission. Burklemore1 (talk) 16:48, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @Burklemore1: List of Myrmecia species looks promising, and with 94 described species, very ambitious. I can help out by adding a description or two and by trying to find more photos. Does N/A mean that there's no photo on AntWeb/Commons or just that there's no photo on Commons? Flickr is another source that may surprise you (the Myrmecia rubripes photos in the link are not free, but photographers who license their work as CC-NC tend to be more likely to release their work as CC-BY or CC-SA if asked).

GA shopping list: top/high/B-class

Since you mentioned it, are you more interested in expanding stubs to GA, or expanding anything to GA? High importance stubs/start-class. Basically all articles on weaver ants and leaf-cutter ants are under-developed. I've created a sandbox/zoo here where we can work on articles. My first suggestion is Atta cephalotes in sandbox1. Here is an awesome A. cephalotes family photo that is free to use (although unfortunately "free" as in GNU Free Documentation License, which is kind of useless for printed content). I'm open for any collaboration, and working on a couple of different articles at the same time means we never get bored :) jonkerz ♠talk 19:11, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

Excellent, there may be a few grammatical errors around because I'm sort of rushing through it, but I'll do some ce and request another editor to go through it before I nominate it. I'm stuck as to whether or not to move the image section next to the species name or not. N/A means no free image is available, even though some images may surface online (that are not free). Myrmecia chrysogaster was the only one not on AntWeb that I found on Commons. If you easily want to add a description and its distribution, Clark 1951 is the best option for you. The best option that could have been done is to redistribute the images found in Clark's 1951 publication, but Australian copyright laws prevent me from doing it. I'll have a look around Flickr as well.

I think we should expand whatever we think has potential. Xxpanding the weaver ants and leaf-cutters ants should be a priority. At this time around readers would be disappointed with what they get, which is why we should work on them to GA or higher. I'm planning to form a featured topic with the weaver ants and create a standalone article for the fossil species, so I think we should do some collab with that. I have begun work on Formicium and will probably finish it by tonight, give it a ce and pesto, a nice new GA. This page can also help us with promoting many articles to GA and FA (222 potential GA and FA articles to be exact). Burklemore1 (talk) 02:39, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Copyright sucks :/ Here's a regex and substitution pattern for moving the images next to the species names:

\|- ?\n(\|.*\n)(\|.*\n)(\|.*\n)(\|.*\n)(\|.*\n)

|-\n\1\5\2\3\4

Result. Add a g to the modifiers input if you're using a Javascript-based online service such as [1]. jonkerz ♠talk 13:12, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

After looking at it, I think the table with the image next to the name is more readable, because these are the most interesting columns and not having to jump between the two is easier on the eyes. jonkerz ♠talk 15:25, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Moved the images, it visually looks more appealing now. Thanks for the help! I'll be sure to work vigorously on Atta cephalotes once the list has been finished. Because the ant is well studied, I expect this to be a large project. Also, here is a link that indirectly provides a taxonomic history of the species. Burklemore1 (talk) 04:57, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: I expanded the distribution to M. comata include NSW, based on the description of their larvae by Wheeler & Wheeler. AntWeb also lists a specimen collected in Victoria. jonkerz ♠talk 19:30, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

Okay cheers, I am free for today so I should get a lot of it done. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:26, 7 November 2015 (UTC)

Btw, do you have any Swedish ants in mind to work on? I feel a little European-orientated and see if any ants you heavily associate with or see all the time would like to see their articles promoted? ;) Burklemore1 (talk) 04:15, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: That would be Lasius niger and Formica rufa, both widespread in Europe. These ants are very common and the "most ant" ants I know of, listed as #2 and #3 on Pengo's list. The L. niger article is very stubby (only 1½ references); the F. rufa article is in better shape, but both could be improved a lot. jonkerz ♠talk 16:47, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

I see, we'll probably look into these later on when we get other articles done. Thanks for the ping too, I'll try and respond swiftly when you're not available. Burklemore1 (talk) 16:54, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Great :) With you in Australia and me in Sweden, we got most hours of the day covered :) jonkerz ♠talk 17:05, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Excellent, that is what I call an effective team. ;) By the way, do you mind if I add Tatuidris to my list of GA's promoted (once we successfully promote it)? It's only on the basis that I helped promote it during review and I'll mention that 99% of work was done by you, just so I don't steal the credit from others who are deserving. It's vice versa with the help you've done with list of Myrmecia species, which I really need to work on. Burklemore1 (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Of course, we're both co-nominators, and truth to be told, this article would not be a GAN if it weren't for you. Btw, are you on Dropbox? I can setup a shared folder with all the PDFs used as refs. jonkerz ♠talk 17:21, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Sweet, and yes I am. I only just realised that I needed to confirm my email address on there, although I thought I did (just confirmed it). :P Burklemore1 (talk) 17:27, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Tatuidris

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@Burklemore1: Ping! jonkerz ♠talk 16:52, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

Congrats!

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		Well done on passing Tatuidris to GA status! Absolute pleasure to read, and the first Agroecomyrmecinae related article to reach GA.

Tatuidris has been passed as a good article, so congratulations!! Apologies that I wasn't around to actually work on it more, life has been really stressful this month. With that said, I may not be really active on Wikipedia for the upcoming days, need a bit of time to clear my head (when I return, the number of GA nominees/articles will skyrocket again). I'll be around dropbox to see any updates you've done though. :) Burklemore1 (talk) 16:33, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Thanks! :) As you might have seen on Dropbox, I've put in some work on Nylanderia which you are very welcome to contribute to. jonkerz ♠talk 16:38, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

Excellent, already made two edits. The antwiki article has excellent information along with the sources cited next the text, so it will be much easier to find. I'll expand distribution once I am more active. Burklemore1 (talk) 16:55, 15 November 2015 (UTC)

By the way, I forgot to respond in regards to this proposal you mentioned. If you feel like it should be designed like that, we could experiment in the sandbox page itself. I really need to get it done, hopefully by the end of the year. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:50, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Let's make that a goal -- to complete the list before 31 December 2015. I may be able to generate a list of the 178 missing Myrmicinae genera (including author/type etc.) directly from AntCat's database (but no promises yet). Also, I'll look into alternative designs of the list. jonkerz ♠talk 21:00, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

Sweet, cheers for helping out with it. I would have made it a priority much earlier, but so many articles had to be worked on. By the way, I only made the type species names consistent with the genus they are placed in to reflect their current taxonomic status, but I'm fine with adding their original taxon name. Burklemore1 (talk) 03:37, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Actually the type species never changes, that is, the type species of Myrmecia is Formica gulosa, not Myrmecia gulosa (M. gulosa however is a senior synonym of F. gulosa). I know because someone pointed it out to me when I changed the type species in articles to reflect the most recent taxonomic placement :) I was kindly sent the most recent AntCat database dump today, which made it possible to generate all kinds of cool things. Here are all Myrmicinae genera (and Ponerinae for comparison). The ref is from the initial description. More to come. jonkerz ♠talk 06:23, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Ah, that makes sense now. Thought it would be more reasonable to use the current name instead of the original one, but I can see why, it never changes as you just said. The list looks great, did you want it added to the sandbox and work it from there or are you still doing some extra work to it? Also, we need to rename and update Aphaenogaster cockerelli (I created the genus article for it btw, more to come soon). Burklemore1 (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @Burklemore1: I need to fix a couple of issues first: the url for the cite template, find the current taxonomic status of the type species, group duplicated refs, and generate citation templates for nested references. I'm not sure that {{cite book}} completely supports nested references. There's a |contribution param for the inner title; like this:

Ward, P.S. (2000). "Broad-scale patterns of diversity in leaf-litter ant communities.". In Agosti, D.; Majer, J.D.; Alonso, L.A. & Schultz, T.R. Ants: Standard Methods for Measuring and Monitoring Biodiversity. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp. 99–121.  CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

But refs like this one uses one |pages param for the inner content, and a second |pages param for the whole book. There's an ongoing discussion aka wall of text about nested references at Help_talk:Citation_Style_1#Foreword. jonkerz ♠talk 07:07, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Ah okay. Let me know when you are done with it and we can do some additional work to it. Don't worry about the images, they aren't exactly important for now and we can just add them in the sandbox itself. I have been feeling horrible for the past few days so I may be absent for a couple of more days by the way. Burklemore1 (talk) 03:16, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: I'll paste it into the sandbox when the issues have been sorted. We have a lot to do (and not just with this list) once you feel better and return to editing, which I hope is soon! And by a lot I mean a lot of fun stuff (I'm not trying to pressure you, heh) :) jonkerz ♠talk 05:03, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Definitely, I don't mind working on many things, it helps build the Wikipedia. :) 2015 has been a good year if you look at how many GA articles we have now. Last year we only had a single GA, now we have 15. This year marked seven years since the first ant related article was promoted to FA, only to be broken with the promotion of Banded sugar ant last September, and we now have our first FL. 2016 will probably be more promising! Burklemore1 (talk) 05:30, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

By the way, did you want to be a co-nominator of List of Myrmecia species when it gets nominated? We still have a lot of work to do on it, but I thought I'd ask if you'd like to be. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:36, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Make that 16 GA articles, Myrmecia inquilina will be on the list soon! Burklemore1 (talk) 15:57, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Awesome :) Some fun stats: out of all insect FAs, 22% are ant-related, 50% of the FLs and 32% of GAs. If this continues soon all articles on the whole Wikipedia will be about ants. Only looking at stats from this year would also be interested, and stats for Burklemore 2015 vs. Everybody Ever :) I can be a co-nom, or at least help resolving issues and expanding the list. So far I've only added two.. writing descriptions can be tricky with all the synonyms. Would you be interested in helping to take List of ants of Andorra to FL? It's basically a wikified version of [2], so it has already been through a peer-review once, but it needs to be checked for accuracy, and the layout can be improved. To be honest, the list is not terribly important (unless you're an Andorran myrmecologist, which seems to be a rare thing these days -- in fact, once Google has crawled this page, it will be the only page mentioning the term, heh). But it's a good candidate as is and I think more featured content lends credibility to Wikipedia, which is obviously a good thing. jonkerz ♠talk 07:34, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

Nothomyrmecia may be our next GA nominee, since it is almost complete. I'm also thinking about getting it to FA status, since an ant such as that needs an extremely high quality article. I just need to look around for more sources to see if there is anymore relevant information though. Give it a few years and we may have hundreds of GAs and dozens upon dozens of FAs and FLs. For the Myrmecia list I will complete after I deal with Nothomyrmecia so I know that all Myrmeciinae genera are GA. I can help out with the List of ants of Andorra whenever you need, although it looks like we don't have to do much (it looks complete but we can always do some overview beforehand. Possible copyedit?) I think we may need to check if anymore ants living in Andorra have been described and not added to the list. However, given how small Andorra is, the diversity will unlikely to change a lot. Oh, and the citation you provided was only published two years ago, so that makes it even more unlikely but moral to double check. Burklemore1 (talk) 03:23, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

By the way Nothomyrmecia is going to be our next nominee, I will nominate it as soon as I finish writing this sentence. After an extensive copyedit done by myself, I think the prose is good enough for GA level, but I will need another editor to check it if we go for FA. Burklemore1 (talk) 17:04, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Quick comments on the Nothomyrmecia article (it's pretty solid in general, btw): I am aware that "discovered/collected by" doesn't have to mean that the specimens were personally collected by that person, but the current wording gives the impression Amy Crocker personally collect the original specimens, but a "Miss Baesjou" is mentioned as the collector in the original description. In any case, I do not think her name belongs in the lead. You could also add the Taylor 1977 ref to the initial sentence in the taxonomy section (I could not find Crocker's name in Clark 1934; correct me if I'm wrong). "A member of the subfamily Myrmeciinae, Amy Crocker collected two workers ..." seems like a non-sequitur. Re the list of genera: I've solved some of the issues, but have yet to figure out the best way to handle repeated refs. jonkerz ♠talk 22:51, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

Mrs. Baesjou and Mrs. Crocker appear to be the same person unless it's a coincidence that they have the same initials. If we want to be sure, is it best to use her "first" last name if this is the case? If not, is it necessary to add a note to explain this just in case readers may get confused as well? I have made some changes to the article. For the list, that is excellent, we almost have less than a month until we meet our goal to get it published by the end of the year, so I better get working on the Formicinae section (almost done though). Iridomyrmex is now in review, so expect our 17th GA. ;) Burklemore1 (talk) 02:04, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

Re Nothomyrmecia: Appears Mrs. Crocker is infact Mrs. Baesjou, see here. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:04, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Thumbs up for good detective work! I suspected that "Baesjou" was an aboriginal name and "Miss" was her first name, but I'm no Sherlock :) For the list, the next thing I'll do on WP is to continue working on it (probably not today though). Thumbs up #2 for banded sugar ant on the main page :) jonkerz ♠talk 10:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

To me it sounds French, but I am not entirely sure. As soon as you incorporate the list into the sandbox, I'll start working on it because why not? ;) Is it a coincidence that a banded sugar ant worker in my captive colony hatched moments before the article was featured? Burklemore1 (talk) 15:28, 28 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: She knew :) she wouldn't want to miss seeing her mom on the main page :) It's already 12 December and I haven't delivered any of the promised changes to the list. I'll continue working on it NOW!! jonkerz ♠talk 12:05, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

"Get me out of this cocoon, I gotta see my mother featured on Wikipedia!" Perhaps I should write some observations down when a C. consobrinus colony is in its early stages of colony founding, maybe others will find it interesting to read this through someone's personal observation. For the list, we have 19 days until we will reach our goal of getting it published onto its affiliated page (if I recall 31 December being the correct date!) Burklemore1 (talk) 12:38, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Nylanderia

Although I'll be occupied for tonight, I'm going to get around to this by adding a few paragraphs on its distribution and among other things. I think there was a lot of info about its phylogeny too, but I may have misread this. If so, I will work on that. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:59, 16 November 2015 (UTC)

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I just discovered my old account!

As you can see, I do have some history on Wikipedia. Note the name there, my current username and my gmail, and you'll see a close relation. ;) ...Oh and the articles I briefly focused on. Burklemore1 (talk) 08:41, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Damn... I could barely write in English. Burklemore1 (talk) 08:43, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Three Burklemores editing the same page, how cute :) Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, I have not edited WP lately because I've put all my Wikipedia time into contributing to AntCat's source code; by a huge coincidence their developer visits my city often because his girlfriend lives here. We met up this week and are currently working on improving the code which I'm really excited about! jonkerz ♠talk 12:01, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

I found it amusing that even I worked on ant articles in 2010. I would join on improving this code personally because why not, but I live slightly too far away. Maybe if Australia shifted a little bit north I'd feel less isolated. ;) Burklemore1 (talk) 12:30, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

List of ant genera (pt 2)

Our masterpiece is almost ready to be published live, all we have to do is to see if anymore refs have been duplicated, expand the lede, give a small summary of the Myrmicines (pretty much use the info from the subfamilies list) and do some minor fixes. For the lede specifically I'm not sure what we can add. Any ideas?. I have also added all available images so we most likely won't find anymore until new ones are released. Burklemore1 (talk) 09:20, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Great work on finding more images. The lead should read something like the intro to the subfamily list. I'm currently manually cleaning up the refs, which sucks because I just realized that I didn't group any refs -- it's easy to check when generating the list if the ref has already been used, matching already existing refs with new ones is trickier. jonkerz ♠talk 02:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Sounds good. Wheeler 1915 and Carpenter 1930 may have more images available, so I could do some more checks with the older fossils. I'm thinking about stating how many genera and species, both living and fossil, have been described and stuff, I'm sure that would be useful. Before/after we finally publish this live, we gotta do a few more things: Rename the List of ant genera (alphabetical) to simply "List of ant genera", merge the incertae sedis since it will be discussed there and update the template Template:Formicidae_subfamilies. I can rename the article now if you want. Burklemore1 (talk) 03:32, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Go ahead with the renaming and all other things you can come up with. Adding species counts is something I can do pretty easily (example). All data is from 11 November 2015, but I've asked for new database dump. jonkerz ♠talk 03:45, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

Oops, was suppose to do what I said above but I got distracted. I'll make further progress once I return, a colossal project such as this is worth the time and effort anyway. Do you intend on updating the template yourself? You'd definitely be more familiar with it. Burklemore1 (talk) 08:18, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: I can update the template; I had something like this in mind. Improvements/suggestions welcomed. jonkerz ♠talk 09:54, 3 January 2016 (UTC)

I'm pretty happy with the templates (I'm happy with either one). If we were to change to Formicidae taxonomy, I'd see no ways to improve the template when it's fine enough. If we decide to use the current template, of course we'd have to update the genera section. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:07, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

By the way I have now renamed the list! Burklemore1 (talk) 05:25, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Incertae sedis list has now been redirected to the main one, and it seems I reached 10,000 edits not long ago. I finally don't feel new anymore! ;) Burklemore1 (talk) 06:56, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Great, I'll update the template! And congratulations on becoming a member of the Wikipedia Cabal! :)

Re referencing species counts and the current validity of the genera: this is what I meant with "timestamped citation templates". I have not received the latest database dump yet, but I can generate more subfamily lists containing all valid names and species counts as of 5 November 2015, which we would have to manually compare with the main list (alt #1). Or we can postpone it, aka procrastinate it, until I've got around to write a script that parses the list and compares it with the latest dump (alt #2). jonkerz ♠talk 07:13, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Excellent. In regards to what you have just said, we should just do whatever will be easier and less time-consuming. Which alternative would you think will be more time-consuming and difficult? I reckon the script could work in our favour if you cannot be bothered to manually compare it. Burklemore1 (talk) 07:25, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: "Stupid and slow" methods tend to get things done faster than something "smart and fast", but I'm in the mood of trying to make this the "smart" way so it may take a little bit longer, but probably not that much longer than manually comparing the list. In the future we absolutely need to be able to update all lists (including species lists and taxoboxes in other articles) at least semi-automatically. I'll start experimenting with some code today. jonkerz ♠talk 07:36, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

By the time we finished adding all the genera to the list, some of them needed updating! It was only a few months too, so you're definitely correct. Good luck with the coding, I'm not a very tech savvy person so I'm pretty useless in that field. ;) On another note, I see you have down some updates to the Formicidae subfamilies template, are we able to strike that off our to-do list or are you still experimenting with it? Burklemore1 (talk) 07:43, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Mark completed todo items as finished Y Done! jonkerz ♠talk 07:50, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Awesome, I'll go ahead and check on the type species names while you're doing your magical code stuff. I'm sure one of the tasks is to incorporate all the original type species names rather than those (if applied to) currently used, correct? I'll recheck again if there are anymore duplicated refs too, just to be safe. Burklemore1 (talk) 08:18, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘@Burklemore1: Excellent, and yes, checking type species is on the menu. I've struck a todo item that was not in the list, and added four new -- it's good that we're keeping completed items in the list, otherwise it would feel like we didn't get anywhere :) jonkerz ♠talk 12:55, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Looks great, though I'll try and see what we can do with the collective group names. We could create a new section solely for CGN's and alter the wikitable (i.e. say which subfamily they belong to, or do they have any names available? If so, are they CGN's or valid sepcies). Or we could just keep them in their respective subfamilies, all separated while we leave a lot of notes saying these species are considered collective group names themselves or "material was absorbed into Eofromica, but it is still valid?" I'm not too sure if I was right there, but it seems to be a CGN according to AntWeb still. Burklemore1 (talk) 03:43, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

By the way, what is the situation with Armaniella? It's listed as a valid genus but its only known species is in another one? I'm not sure what to do with this one. Burklemore1 (talk) 04:23, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: I think we have to wait for AntCat to resolve the situation with Armaniella and CGNs. I ran a query for finding all valid genera without valid species, and there are two other taxa with the same problem: Forelophilus and Condylodon (and Armaniella). I'll make the team aware of these issues, but it may take a while for them to update the catalog because two of the most active AC editors (which are the ones I have contact with) are in Mozambique doing ant science stuff. jonkerz ♠talk 09:46, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Looking at antweb the most recent treatments of Armaniella (Dlussky 1999, Bolton, 2003) have considered it a jr synonym of Amania, I'm not sure why Antcat and ant web both have Armaniella still listed as valid. (Im still not comfortable with the listing of Amaniidae as a formicid subfamily either to be honest.--Kevmin § 10:30, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

@Kevmin: Re Armaniella: they probably just forgot to update the genus after changing the status of Armaniella curiosa to a synonym. It's not included in List of ant genera. Re the status of Amaniidae: agree; I thought this would have changed by now. I've focused mostly on extant taxa, but whenever I've ventured into the land of fossil ants I've noticed that AC's catalog is not as good as it could be. Possibly because the team has no editor specialized in fossil taxa (at least I think that is the case). jonkerz ♠talk 11:00, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Thats probably what happened, I tend to go more from the actual papers then either Antcat or antweb, simply because those are both volunteer based endeavors and there are very few paleomyrmecologists that actively participate in either. The treatment of Armaniidae is very uncertain, with Dlussky (the only author to have directly worked with the fossils consistently maintaining that they are most likely separate. The most recent two papers mentioning the family notably Ants and the Fossil Record keep the group as a family.--Kevmin § 12:35, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

(arbitrary break)

The inclusion of the subfamily/family was only consistent with its listing at AntCat, but I myself was confused and hesitantly added it to the list only because AntCat left it as a subfamily. Somewhat I am a little opposed to excluding them now because of its uncertainty on AntCat now that this issue has been brought up; a update is needed to actually know what is going on (email perhaps?) The arguments on the annual review source are convincing but did they actually exclude it, even if they used its family name? As far as I can tell they only say it should not be in the family. That has got be a little confused. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:26, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Btw Kevmin, are there any other sources that follow the annual reviews discussion and exclude Armaniidae? Since you know a lot more about them than I do (opposing your comments would be unnecessary, mine is just out of curiousity and confusion), I was wondering if anyone has looked at this and widely accept the proposal. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:31, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

With the synonyms, thanks for the clarifications. I guess we better email the antcat/antweb team about this situation. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:35, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @Burklemore1 and Kevmin: In case my last message confused anyone, and I've said this in other places in the past, but as long as AC treats Armaniinae as a formicid subfamily, I think we should do the same in lists based on AC. How to fix: emailing the AntCat team is probably the way to go, so that this issue can be fixed at its source, or at least we would know if their placement is intentional and not just a result of not having time to update it. jonkerz ♠talk 18:54, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

That's pretty much what I'm saying too, but there could be uncertainty which leads us to email them. It's odd how the annual reviews reference has "discussion" in parenthesis but in other places says "as subfamily of Formicidae". That makes me lead to believe no active exclusion took place. Burklemore1 (talk) 01:15, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

To be blunt though, AC and AW are both arbitrary proposed classifications, that generally follow Bolton plus papers, but are predicated entirely on if the updating author feels the moves in a paper are justified. This is compounded by the fact that the vast majority of AW/AC contributors are not fossil inclined, and so there is very little in the way of work that happens with the more controversial taxa, such as Armaniidae. My personal preference is to go with the published papers, and not the websites. Since 2010 only four papers (in a google scholar search) used Armaniinae, while 6 used Armaniidae.--Kevmin § 02:11, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

At this point of time I think it's best to email them about this situation, this would clarify a lot of things and see what action can be taken. Burklemore1 (talk)

@Burklemore1 and Kevmin: Agreed; anyone (looking at Kevmin) have time to do this? I don't know the situation well enough to argue for either side of the case. I could ask Phil Ward about it, but that would only be a single editor. jonkerz ♠talk 10:44, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Im curious why the wait on possible changes? As i can tell I think the only palaeomyrmecologist that occasionally contributes to AW is Vincent Perrichot, so with the exception of new taxa, taxonomy changes seem to lag a little, and I have gotten no response from my last email regarding the errors with fossil image display and in the linking between the Sphecomyrmodes/Gerontoformica pages. --Kevmin § 14:39, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @Kevmin and Burklemore1: My initial concern had to do with cherry-picking/OR (see the subfamily list FLC). Keeping the main article where it currently is (Armaniidae) is probably the most correct option (but I'm not sure I'm convinced by the 4-6 Google Scholar comparison), but I also think you can see why I'm reluctant to exclude it altogether from lists otherwise based on AC. Both List of ant subfamilies and List of ant genera explicitly mention the uncertainty of this placement. That said, I'm also ok with treating the taxon more consistently (ie moving the list of Armanii*ae genera from List of ant genera to Armaniidae and explaining the situation in the lead or a footnote in the lists).

I emailed Phil Ward, asking whether AC's placement of Armanii*ae is "correct" or due to not having time to update it, and if the placement on AC is likely to change in the close future.

"I have gotten no response from my last email" that sucks; did you send it to AntCat? Lately I have become very involved as a volunteer developer for AntCat, and improving how user feedback is handled is one of the things I'm currently working on (see [3]). jonkerz ♠talk 22:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

@Kevmin and Burklemore1: Reply from Ward: "whether one treats Armaniinae as a subfamily or family is somewhat arbitrary. This taxon appears to be a stem lineage of ants, and so it is a matter of personal taste. It is not a member of crown Formicidae, but then neither is Sphecomyrminae. I prefer to keep stem lineages in the total clade to which they belong." Which means, I suppose, that the classification is not likely to change on AC in the near future. jonkerz ♠talk 13:47, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Fair enough, and no its not likely to change in the near future from the look of it.--Kevmin § 23:14, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

???

Hey there, Jonkers. I wish to inform you that I am not a troll and would not try to do that at all (unless it was done to Jar Jar Binks). Pardon me for the occasional Yo Mama joke, but I have not done those recently. I am watching your talk page, and YOU were the one who mentioned me. Please inform me on the nature of this supposed incident, OmegaBuddy¹³_{find me here} 15:05, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

It's still trolling no matter how long ago it was. Burklemore1 (talk) 06:01, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Help

Please take a look at the article about Julia Kronlid, any help is appreciated. Regards,--BabbaQ (talk) 23:34, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

@BabbaQ: Looks good! jonkerz ♠talk 07:50, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

If you want to, take a look at Lisa Aschan.--BabbaQ (talk) 15:43, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

DYK for Julia Kronlid

— Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:03, 27 January 2016 (UTC)

TFL notification

Hi, Jon. I'm just posting to let you know that List of ant subfamilies – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for February 26. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 19:24, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

@Giants2008: Really cool, thanks! Due to your friendly greeting I felt compelled to reply so that I don't come off as rude, hehe. Not that it matters or I take offence, but my name is not Jon; "jonkerz" is just a silly nickname, but I suppose Jon is a good nickname for my nickname, so you're not wrong ;) jonkerz ♠talk 13:14, 1 February 2016 (UTC)

My apologies! I just assumed that it was a real name. This is what happens when you assume, I guess. :-( Giants2008 (Talk) 23:08, 2 February 2016 (UTC)

Dinoponera edit

In the Dinoponera article, here in the venom section, you added In gamergates the venom sac is empty. An anon recently changed "gamergates" to "drones" here with the ES: Changed the word 'gamergates' in the section venom for the word drone, as it's the only word that could have made sense given the context. Was it vandalism?. What is the correct word here? Would you please check into this? Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 08:04, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

It appears that the edit was rolled back w/o comment. Seemed rather impolite... Cheers Jim1138 (talk) 17:50, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

@Jim1138: Thanks for letting me know! Just a guess, perhaps the IP thought it was valdalism due to the Gamergate controversy (there are a bunch of crazies on both sides of this controversy, maybe even that's why it became a controversy, heh). The content is straight from the source and User:Kevmin's revert was correct, but I agree that an edit summary wouldn't have hurt. jonkerz ♠talk 19:17, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Meat ant finally done

I'm sure you are well aware of my ambitious project to get meat ant to GA (or possibly FA), but I can now announce the article is done and ready for you to read... well... after it goes through a copyedit. ;) At nearly 9,000 words long with more than 140 references, I hope this articles proves to be a fine source for those who want to know more, because they definitely will know more after my work! I honestly cannot find anymore material to add to the article, so I'm confident it meets the comprehensibility criteria! Burklemore1 (talk) 12:31, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: nice work on meat ant, Sphecomyrma and green-head ant! I found the last one on the Burklemore tracker (aka "Hot articles"), but it only goes back 7 days so I assume that you've improved other articles during my wikibreak. Will read the GANs after replying to all messages on my talk page. jonkerz ♠talk 19:32, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

I had a wikibreak during February, so I was relatively absent from Wikipedia. My last GA articles were from January, but Sphecomyrma is currently nominated. Green-head ant and meat ant will follow too! Furthermore you should check out my little update on my user page, I have made the "big 5" ants. I have made it my yearly project to work on them after I have finished with other ones. Burklemore1 (talk) 03:31, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Excellent choice of articles to improve, and I must admit that I also have a thing for these "mean ants" :) jonkerz ♠talk 09:54, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Oh yes, such articles would draw it a lot of readers so the quality must be high; comprehensiveness, readability and reliability are important. I have decided I will work on the red imported fire ant first, only to fix up the most researched ant in the world! This will be the most second tiresome article I will have worked on when it comes to ants (the list is first), but it's time to work. Its current status is not as bad as I imagine, but far from being an article of good quality. :) Burklemore1 (talk) 02:44, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

BTW, are you able to assess the meat ant and green-head ant articles? I'm not asking for much, but I want to see if they actually fulfill B-class before nomination. Not that it matters, I just don't want conflict of interest playing in. Burklemore1 (talk) 04:30, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @Burklemore1: Assessed as B. I'm fairly generous with quality tagging of ant articles, but B is probably how most editors would rate them.

GA warm-up

Green-head_ant

• "In 1897, Italian entomologist Carlo Emery named the ant Rhytidoponera metallica and designated it as the type species of Chalcoponera, a subgenus of Rhytidoponera in 1911;" until I got to the end of the sentence I thought it was both reclassified and designated as the type species in 1897; move the second year closer to what it refers to

Done.

• "The subspecies R. varians was" -- this is not a subspecies name

Whoops, I forgot to remove "subspecies". Done.

• Link sclerophyll

Done.

• "In areas where the meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus) is dominant, the green-head ant is not affected by the presence of meat ants and are still successful in finding food sources." seems like a non-sequitur -- we haven't been told why there's reason to believe otherwise

I'll look into it.

• "They heavily rely on any food source and the impossibility of successfully defending it" probably add a comma after "source"

Done.

• "They are known to collect non-arillate seeds", hard word; same as aril?

Done (yes it is).

• Change how GACs are reviewed so that editors who may not have time to do a full review can still add comments (similar to FACs). This item is not related to the article...

Meat ant

• "nest building behaviour" shouldn't it be "nest-building behaviour"?

Done.

• "The meat ant was first identified in 1858" I've seen this construct in many articles, but I've always thought that "described" is better wording -- I'm sure that someone had identified this ant as in "whops there's an ant" before 1858

I think I just followed this from someone copyediting the jack jumper ant awhile back. Done.

• "In Mayr's 1862 journal article, the ant was now known as Iridomyrmex purpurea, but renamed it Iridomyrmex purpureus in an 1863 journal article."
  • missing words close to "but renamed it"
  • seems like the first part (before "but renamed it") is unnecessary

Did a rewrite to the sentence, look any better?

Looks good.

• "Iridomyrmex purpureus sanguineus, Iridomyrmex purpureus viridiaeneus and Iridomyrmex detectus castrae were classified", probably shorten "Iridomyrmex" in the last two names

Done.

• "synonymized" is Am. English (hah! gotcha!)

[Freedom intensifies] - Done. ;)

jonkerz ♠talk 19:40, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Project Sphecomyrma freyi?

Upon reading about important and well known ants, the promotion of Nothomyrmecia reflects its significant evolutionary importance, therefore it naturally needs a high quality article. Same goes with the unique Brownimecia, Jack jumper ant and Banded sugar ant; now the Meat ant will soon join these articles and be a good example of what a Wikipedia article should be: a definitive source of information. I still aim for FA with Nothomyrmecia, but ants such as Formica rufa, Lasius niger, Solenopsis invicta and the argentine ant should be looked into. For now this is not about them, but rather about the ant that confirmed a Cretaceous origin of ants: Sphecomyrma freyi. Disappointingly no article for it exists so far so I will take this opportunity to work on it with every known source. It is perhaps the best studied fossil insect as we speak and I believe it deserves a high quality article to reflect its importance among the entomological and myrmecological community. What do you reckon? Burklemore1 (talk) 13:25, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps with the discussion going on, it is best to centralised it under the genus so it's easier to discuss all three at once. Will retain precious time! Burklemore1 (talk) 05:18, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: I'm late to the party and the talk page has disappeared, but for the record: *if* any fossil ant species deserves its own article, it would be Sphecomyrma freyi, but I believe that moving the content to the genus article was the right thing to do even for this well known ant. There is a guideline for this hidden somewhere on a project page, but I never remember where to find it. jonkerz ♠talk 19:34, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

I got straight into action after this so I hope this didn't confuse you. I did move the content after discussing it with Kevmin, he helped out a lot with the concern. Safe to say that this important article is done though! Burklemore1 (talk) 03:23, 29 March 2016 (UTC)

Pseudolasius dodo

Hi, I just noticed there's an ant species called Pseudolasius dodo, and if this is named after the dodo bird, it could be interesting to add that fact under culture significance in that article... So since I know nothing about the naming of this ant, and saw you had edited the genus page, I was thinking you might know what text could be added? Or perhaps Burklemore1? FunkMonk (talk) 18:36, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Hey FunkMonk, the ant was moved to Nylanderia in 2010 and upon looking it up, the ant was described from Mauritius in 1946. Because of that the ant is most definitely named after the dodo. It was described in this article:

• Donisthorpe, H.S.J.K. (1946). "New species of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from the island of Mauritius". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 12 (11): 776–782. doi:10.5281/zenodo.26502. 

A good sentence for it is the ant was named after the dodo because the two taxa come from Mauritius? That could be a reasonable suggestion. I would read the full PDF but antbase isn't loading anything for me. Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 02:02, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks! Seems our articles about those ant genera are therefore outdated? I can read the PDF from that doi you linked. Strange that the article doesn't give the etymology specifically... FunkMonk (talk) 02:06, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Ah nice, I managed to find a PDF from antwiki and the type specimens were collected from Le Pouce mountain, and from what the dodo article says, the only complete specimen of the bird was found there? Burklemore1 (talk) 02:12, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, so since the description isn't clear, I'll just say something like "A species of ant collected from Le Pouce mountian in Mauritius was named Pseudolasius dodo in 1946", and then I guess the link can go to the Nylanderia article? FunkMonk (talk) 02:23, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

That works to avoid any original research (even if it is obvious). Do keep its original name and link to Nylanderia, this is a common practice with many ant names. I should also note that the ant is presumably endangered and there is a reference called "The endangered ants of Mauritius: doomed like the dodo?". There is a PDF for it but again it does not work for me, but if you can go through that it may dig up some stuff. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:29, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @FunkMonk and Burklemore1: Agreed; I've had the same problem with other taxa described in the olden days. I didn't find anything either, likely because it's not written down anywhere because it obviously refers to the bird (as opposed to other "dodos" such as Dodo von Knyphausen [1641–1698], the nobleman in the service of Brandenburg-Prussia).

If you really want a source, submit a question http://www.antweb.org/antblog/ (which I think satisfies WP:RS in this case), but I guess all that they could say is that the species is "most probably" named after the bird, but at least *we* didn't draw that conclusion.

"Seems our articles about those ant genera are therefore outdated?", I've manually updated the Pseudolasius article, but there are without doubt more articles with similar problems. There are probably thousands of AntWeb photos on Commons that are out of date; I've emailed the AntWeb team regarding this issue in the past, but there are some technical issues on AntWeb's side that [ideally] have to be fixed before making a bot run to cleanup all outdated data. jonkerz ♠talk 19:42, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Looks like I ran into the same problem less than an hour after reading this. I'm pretty sure that Froggattella is named after Walter Wilson Froggatt, at least the genus is named after someone, or something. It was first described in Forel, A. 1902j. "Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie". Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10: 405-548. (pg. 459), and despite that my French is.. I do not speak French.. I'm pretty sure that no name is mentioned in the original description. Froggatt is listed as the namesake in this newsletter, but I'm not sure how WP:RS that source is. jonkerz ♠talk 20:40, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the detailed responses. Seems like ant-researchers like to be as succinct as possible... FunkMonk (talk) 07:24, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

Red imported fire ant physiology

Since I have been working on this article, I have realised that the physiology of the ant has been well research and a number of articles discuss it, but I noticed a section you removed was to do with this topic. I only presume the content itself was off-topic or such information is unnecessary? I think the huge load of information discussing how the ant itself functions could make a nice section, but do any guidelines go against this if it's only consistent with other insects, or it not needed? Burklemore1 (talk) 04:23, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Looks like I pulled the trigger too quickly on that one (diff); my concern was that parts of that content were either too general or too specific. Either way, feel free to restore what you think would improve the article, even if that means restoring the whole section. jonkerz ♠talk 13:43, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

The content was a pretty nice addition, I believe I did find some papers discussing the reproductive system and respiratory system? I removed a subsection that was also irrelevant; it was only discussing the social factors of "necrophoric behaviour" of other ants and it didn't seem to have any relation or connection with the red imported fire ant. Anyway, your edits did improve the article anyway so I wouldn't blame you for removing it, I mean why on earth does the article need to discuss the concept of the green-beard gene? Why???? I certainly will not restore that. The article is already looking top notch though, so much detail. Burklemore1 (talk) 13:56, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: The article is so much better now. I removed a bunch of similar sections about the green-beard effect from other articles before removing it from the RIFA article. I get that the "Why????" was rhetorical, but yeah this is what happens when students who are not very familiar with our guidelines -- and who probably care more about their grades than the 'Pedia -- write articles. It's hopefully worth the effort in the long run, despite all the additional cleanup we have to do. jonkerz ♠talk 14:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

I'm pretty happy with how the article is turning out, we can definitely agree that it wasn't in great shape, and for an article like this, I find that unacceptable! No doubt this will take a very long time to work on and finish when you look at how much is known about its behaviour, invasive nature, toxicology, relationship with humans etc etc. It's a long road, but we will get there. It's always possible to get an article from a sorry state to a high quality FA-class article e.g. this. Burklemore1 (talk) 15:22, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Unacceptable indeed! Here's another great example, and this is just too funny. Btw, I hope you don't mind that I'm offering Wikipedia's "Burklemore GA writing service" to the community like I did here. jonkerz ♠talk 15:46, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

The horror! ;) I will start my own GA business where I write articles for half a barnstar... Jokes, but I don't mind at all. I should note that ETF's last edit was in November last year, but hopefully he will come on soon enough. Burklemore1 (talk) 15:59, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

....Or not. That was fast. Burklemore1 (talk) 06:50, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

The internet is blazing fast nowadays, you gotta keep up with the new technology, grampa (also joke) :) jonkerz ♠talk 14:44, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

The wrinkles have emerged now that he responded so quick. ;) Burklemore1 (talk) 12:07, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Homo tsaichangensis

The reference that you are seeking may be found here, circulationsys♠talk https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301215826_Prijegled_osnovnih_taksonomskih_podataka_o_evoluciji_covjeka_Homo_sapiens_Linnaeus_1758_Chordata_Mammalia_Primates_Hominidae — Preceding unsigned comment added by Circulationsys (talk • contribs) 16:20, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

Replied at User_talk:Circulationsys#Homo_tsaichangensis_Reference. jonkerz ♠talk 12:23, 18 April 2016 (UTC)

Message to the ant people regarding open access

In 2013 I added a lot of open access content from various journals, and naively believed that attributing it via inline references in combination with the article history or talk page would suffice. That was (obviously) not the case, so I had to add all those really long attribution templates saying "This article incorporates text from a scholarly publication published under ..." Since then I've reverted many of these edits in articles where there was too little content to warrant a long attribution template, just to get rid of the template, and only added new OA content from journal articles with a reasonable amount of content that's reusable on WP (and to articles already "tainted" with this template). There are still a bunch of these out there, and if you ever see {{OA-attribution}} in the wild and believe the article would be better without the OA content, feel free to boldly remove it (linking this talk page thread should suffice for an edit summary) or let me know so I can do it.

Ping: @Burklemore1 and Kevmin:

TL;TR: OA is great, but long attribution templates are not; feel free to remove any OA content I've added (in particular very short snippets) if you believe it improves the 'Pedia. jonkerz ♠talk 09:29, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Got it, I usually just rewrite information from articles in my own prose anyway.--Kevmin § 15:34, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

I'll snoop around whenever I can, I haven't really seen it much tbh. Burklemore1 (talk) 09:55, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Nothomyrmecia FAC

OoO I complety forgot about this. I stumbled upon an image of the sculpture found in Poochera and I added it in, but completely forgot I wanted to nominate it (mainly because it will be 60 years since Clark died). Do you have any initial comments on the article, and think it could be ready? Burklemore1 (talk) 09:52, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Cool sculpture, it looks very dangerous :) The article is ready for FAC, in fact I could only find a few minor issues related to WP:REPEATLINK. However, I'd probably reverse this sentence from the lead: "A member of the subfamily Myrmeciinae, two workers were presumably collected in 1931 near the Russell Range from Israelite Bay in Western Australia, first described by Australian entomologist John S. Clark in 1934." to read "A member of the subfamily Myrmeciinae, the ants were first described by Australian entomologist John S. Clark in 1934 from two workers presumably collected in 1931 near the Russell Range from Israelite Bay in Western Australia.", or replace the comma after "Western Australia" with an "and". jonkerz ♠talk 12:27, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, I have incorporated it in. :) Sorry for the late response, been super busy with other articles and such. I will do a few more fixes and tweaks on the article and nominate it afterwards. If there are a few instances of repeated links, feel free to leave them in the FAC. Burklemore1 (talk) 05:09, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

It's happening! I have done additional improvements to the article and now it is an FA candidate. Feel free to post any comments there. Burklemore1 (talk) 10:53, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Tentative support - no real issues, will spot-check more references later. I'll be back, got to run! jonkerz ♠talk 15:55, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for the support! Take all the time you need with this one. Burklemore1 (talk) 16:06, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Oh, and by the way... I don't mean to briefly change subjects, but are antbase.org pdf links working for you? I always get connection time outs. Burklemore1 (talk) 16:08, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: Not working, neither is the antbase.org root page. I've never really used AB, and their servers being down all the time doesn't make that easier. jonkerz ♠talk 23:54, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Well I hope they can fix the problems, a large number of sources I have cited have antbase links. Burklemore1 (talk) 04:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Discussion: ant colony

Been thinking of improving this article, but may need some input. My only concern is what I should or should not add; I reckon different varieties of nests should be discussed here if the article is mainly discussing them, as well as its evolutionary history and colonial life. Colonial life would include colony founding, early stages, general behaviour and structure, discussion of myrmecophiles and demise. Perhaps "ant nests and humans" should be another section maybe? Discussing its importance in culture, science, "ant hill art", possibly literature and potential annoyance because of colonies nesting in buildings or in inappropriate spots. Any suggestions? Burklemore1 (talk) 10:57, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

@Burklemore1: That would be a great addition because after the next update of WP:ANTS/PP Ant colony will be listed as the fourth most popular ant page, and almost all B+ ant articles are on taxa. From the top of my mind: varieties and variation (eg size variation as in colony population and physical size of the nest, supercolonies, army ants). Castes and task allocation (but I assume you already include this in general behavior and structure). Describing the difference between colonies and nests early on seems sensible, not in a specific section for this only or something obvious like "The difference between...", but just somewhere appropriate and then repeat that in the lead, because the two are very related and we're likely going to have a single page (Ant colony) for both of them for many years to come. I'd focus less on human aspects, mostly because I wouldn't know what to put there, but economic impact (from nest building) would be interesting.

Very cool video: link; I'm sure you've already seen it, but there's no harm in watching it again ;) jonkerz ♠talk 23:41, 4 May 2016 (UTC)

It'd be difficult owing to how much is available, and how much you need to add in to fulfill comprehensibility. Varieties have been an important factor in my mind, where we describe what you thought of, and nests such as mounds, arboreal, nomadic and temporary nests made out of workers (army ants of course) and semi-aquatic (Polyrhachis sokolova colonies are found in mangrove swamps, even when rivers fill up, David Attenborough covered this) could be described. Re supercolonies: I found an excellent article discussing the evolution of supercolonies, would make a nice addition. For humans, this assumption is based on what I learned from termite mounds. They are, in some regions, a cultural significance. It would be nice if such facts can be attributed to ant colonies. I think I've seen the video before, it just shows you should never underestimate small organisms. ;) Burklemore1 (talk) 06:19, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Precious

ants, ants and ants!

Thank you for your stunning contributions to Wikipedia's coverage on ants. This may have come late, but has only become better deserved, for you are an awesome Wikipedian!

Sainsf <^>_{Feel at home} 05:52, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

Thanks a lot Sainsf! I appreciate your kind words and the pretty sapphire (it looks expensive). jonkerz ♠talk 15:56, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

That sapphire is nothing before your priceless contributions. Keep going! Sainsf <^>_{Feel at home} 03:14, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Notes and references

Have you read WP:FNNR and WP:CITEVAR ? Wayne Jayes (talk) 05:36, 2 August 2016 (UTC)

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