Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Vespidae

Social wasps

Social wasps are important and increasingly well studied. We are starting this project and hope to have the Vespidae scientific community dig in and help!Agelaia (talk) 22:33, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

List of wasp articles for work

Here is a list of wasps our systematics guru, Jim Carpenter, wants to see done and why:

• Agelaia vicina (what's not to like about nests with a million or more wasps?)
• Apoica flavissima (looks spectacular on the nest)
• Asteloeca ujelhyii (strange-looking wasps and nests)
• Brachygastra scutellaris (nests are beautifully "painted")
• Chartergus globiventris (lovely small nests - Richards was dead wrong about species of this genus)
• Epipona quadrituberculata (horns on the petiole)
• Leipomeles dorsata (both wasps and nests are beautiful)
• Metapolybia bromelicola (for nesting in a bromeliad)
• Mischocyttarus punctatus (weird nests)
• Nectarinella championi (ant guards a palisade of paper posts with droplets on top)
• Polistes crinitus (maybe the most attractively marked Polistes; name based on a mistake)
• Polybia rejecta (takes the cake for sheer attitude)
• Protopolybia chartergoides (nest envelopes are like clear wax paper)
• Protopolybia scutellaris (just for the sake of the petiole winglets)

Agelaia (talk) 11:59, 25 August 2014 (UTC) Agelaia (talk) 11:39, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

@Agelaia:, a little bit of wikitext converts this into a status report of whats created or not till date! :) AshLin (talk) 05:23, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal

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Potential copyright problems with Wasp images

Hello waspies! I'm not involved with the class or this project, but I've been reviewing a lot of new Vespid articles, and some of the images seem to be of questionable fair-use status: images scanned from books that do not explicitly allow commercial-reuse of images may be problematic- and anything licensed "CC-BY-NC" (nc=non-commercial) can generally not be uploaded to WikiCommons, since media on commons can be re-used by anyone, for any use, including commercial. For example, Female_P._nigricans_serrei or P_alternata_female. both have questionable licenses. See Commons:Licensing for more details. There are a number of sources for CC licensed images, including all content published by ZooKeys and the PLOS series of journals, and some of the images published by Zootaxa. Cheers! --Animalparty-- (talk) 19:27, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Request made for statistics pertaining to WikiProject Vespidae

I have placed a request here for summary table statistics for WikiProject Vespidae. FYI, AshLin (talk) 08:21, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

The instructions were here. By group action, we're done & we now have statistics! Yippee! AshLin (talk) 05:15, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Polistes crinitus

Hi! I am Gug01. I am not part of the WikiProject yet but am thinking to join, in part to create articles of all Polistes species. I request that the article Polistes crinitus is cleanup up. I already fixed part of the taxobox (Hexapoda isn't a class and you guys forgot to add Insecta), but please fix the whole thing. Also, what is this talk about a "species group"? Please reply on my talk page if possible. (If not, please reply here.)Gug01 (talk) 20:26, 15 January 2015 (UTC) Gug 01

Proposed merge with WikiProject Insects/Hymenoptera task force

I've created a main page for the Hymenoptera task force since this group and WikiProject Apidae seemed inactive. I believe it would be beneficial to have all Hymenoptera in one place, as a task force rather than its own WikiProject due to the relatively small number of editors. If there are any objections, please state them below. M. A. Broussard (talk) 08:15, 3 April 2016 (UTC)

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