The automated taxobox system is used to automatically generate the classification (taxonomic hierarchy) in a taxobox. It is designed to require the absolute minimum user input and research, and so provide higher-quality classification.
If you have a general question about any part of the system, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Automated taxobox system. Issues with particular automated taxobox templates, such as {{Speciesbox}} or {{Automatic taxobox}} can be raised at their talk pages (e.g. Template talk:Speciesbox or Template talk:Automatic taxobox).
| Automatic taxobox | |
|---|---|
 Don't worry, I don't bite | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Phylum: | Chordata (?) |
| Class: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Exemplus |
| Species | |
Taxonomy templates
Taxobox templates
- Which should be used?
- Changing the taxa displayed
- Convert a taxobox to an automated taxobox
- Glossary of automated taxobox parameters
- Automatic taxobox – mainly for genera and higher taxa
- Speciesbox – for a species
- Subspeciesbox – for an animal subspecies
- Infraspeciesbox – for a plant subspecies or variety
- Hybridbox – for an animal hybrid within a genus
- Ichnobox – for a trace fossil
- Oobox – for a fossil egg
- Virusbox – for viruses and non-cellular life
- Paraphyletic group – for concepts that do not correspond to a monophyletic clade
- Population taxobox - for notable populations of subspecies of animals
Tracking/maintenance categories
editCategory used for all taxobox templates:
Category used for all taxonomy templates:
- Category:Taxonomy templates (118,760)
Tracking/error categories:
- Category:Automatic taxobox cleanup (4)
- Category:Taxoboxes with the error color (0)
- Category:Taxoboxes with no color (5) – not necessarily an error
- Category:Taxoboxes with the incertae sedis color (53) – not necessarily an error
- Category:Taxonomy templates using unrecognized rank parameters (0)
- Category:Taxonomy templates showing anomalous ranks (0)
- Category:Taxonomy templates using always_display (524) – not usually an error, but should be special cases
- Category:Unnecessary taxonomy templates (0) – usually species templates redundant to the genus template
- For potential members see Category:Taxonomy templates for species (9))
Hidden categories added by Taxobox/core: