User talk:Katherine.handley

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:30, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Philoponella oweni

Lots of interesting information you added to Philoponella oweni! I've copy-edited it for conformity to the Manual of Style, etc. Some general points:

• First level headings, i.e. ones with a single "=" are not used in text.
• The English Wikipedia is quite firm in de-capitalizing article titles, section headings, etc. Use "sentence case" not "title case".
• The second part of a binomial is never capitalized now. So it's Philoponella oweni not Philoponella Oweni.
• When you abbreviate to P. oweni, it's conventional to input this as P. oweni. The non-breaking space prevents line wrapping between the "P." and the "oweni" (which would make the "." look like the end of a sentence). The same applies between a value and its unit, e.g. input 2.5 cm.

Don't worry about the formatting though – someone will eventually fix it. Content is what matters!

A missing section in Philoponella oweni is "Taxonomy". At least say who first described the species and when and under what name, and then who transferred it and when to its current genus (and ideally why).

Happy editing! Peter coxhead (talk) 20:59, 18 November 2020 (UTC)