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Today I created a social media account for sharing this WikiProject's news, if anyone is interested the link is @WikiProtista. I plan on sharing mainly two things: 1) newly created articles, with at least a brief mention, and 2) newly GA-nominated articles, with a more elaborate thread. All suggestions are welcome! I also made a custom icon which I will soon upload to Wikimedia. — Snoteleks (talk) 21:25, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We officially have a new icon for the project! Courtesy of me through paint.NET and openly available illustrations by Keeling & Eglit. — Snoteleks (talk) 19:20, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many articles only use a single source—often WoRMS. I started tagging them with {{one source}}. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 12:07, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If I have the Petscan search set up properly, there are currently 113 articles tagged with {{one source}} under Category:Protist taxa.  —  Jts1882 | talk  14:15, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Your effort is much appreciated. — Snoteleks (talk) 22:32, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are often more specific disambiguation possibilities than just saying "(protist)". E. g. Yogsothoth belongs to the centrohelids (I do not know whether one shall even retain the disambiguation here, for there is nothing else called Yogsothoth (without anything separating Yog and Sothoth)). Shall one keep the "(protist)" disambiguations as is, or shall we use clades (where possible), e. g. renaming "Yogsothoth (protist)" to "Yogsothoth (centrohelid)"? Alfa-ketosav (talk) 21:07, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(protist) is more readily recognizable than any term for subgroups of protists, and keeping disambiguators used in article titles standardized is more difficult if there is a proliferation of different terms. Plantdrew (talk) 21:12, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(protist) leads to less confusion, as it is a less specific term than any clade. I think it should be an established rule, unless there's more than one protist with the same name, in which case we can suggest (protozoa) and (alga) if it fits, or (clade) and (clade) if it doesn't. — Snoteleks (talk) 21:37, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]