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Interested in mysterious creatures like Bigfoot, Yeti, and Chupacabra? WikiProject Cryptozoology is getting revamped and needs more editors to help!
The Guild of Copy Editors' July Backlog Elimination Drive is halfway through the month, although there are still plenty of articles needing copyediting from 2008. Start working towards your barnstar today!

Submit your project's news and announcements for next week's WikiProject Report at the Signpost's

WikiProject Desk

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This week, we checked out

Belguaboy, and The High Fin Sperm Whale

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“

On a side note, I was actually invited to join the project by a now indefinitely blocked sockpuppet.

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— Brambleclawx, outtakes from the interview

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Belugaboy

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The scope of WikiProject Animals is extremely large, and we've heard that covering a large range of articles is difficult for projects. We asked the project how they focus on improving so many articles.

whales

and all that good stuff."

Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) (young) in South Georgia

When looking at the tree of projects

WP:BIRDS

requires articles discussing species using the common name to be titled in capital case; there was recently a discussion to apply this to other projects, but if I remember correctly the discussion ended without a consensus being achieved." Belugaboy notes that "our parent project, Tree of Life, is not in control of us. It is just a big group of projects. And we're one of them."

The project has had a difficult time finding new members. "Having a lack of members means, frankly, that little gets done in the project. Collaboration is impossible without editors to collaborate with. New members can help by simply creating and improving articles within the project's scope—for those who are not prolific article writers, there are other tasks that need completion too. Taxoboxes need to be created and formatted for all articles on taxa, spelling needs to be checked, and general copy-editing needs to be done on many pages," stated Intelligentsium. Belugaboy added, "It's something every project goes through at some point. For example, our subproject, WP:MAMMAL, only has a few members, averaging one new member a month. Ours is about one new member every other week give or take a few. I just go with the flow and hope for the best, and if possible, use banners."

Belugaboy concludes the interview, saying "Come on and join our project, our daughter projects, or our parent project WikiProject Tree of Life for a great time!" Thanks go to all the participants in this interview.

Next week, we'll boldly go where few editors have gone before. Until then, scan for lifeforms in

WikiProject Desk

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I'm not sure I like this format as much as the previous. Could there be some kind of compromise between the two? I know Q&A isn't inspiring, but neither is "... stated [someone]", "[someone] responded". I don't know what you could do though; maybe bolden the names and remove the above, or have a mix of block text and another format? MasterOfHisOwnDomain (talk)

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