Editing Template:Automatic taxobox/doc (section)

==Exceptional cases==
{{see also|Wikipedia:Automated taxobox system/advanced taxonomy}}

The great majority of taxa can be handled <em>fully automatically</em> by one of the [[Wikipedia:Automated taxobox system/which|automated taxoboxes]] once the necessary [[Wikipedia:Automated taxobox system/taxonomy templates|taxonomy templates]] at the rank of genus and above have been created. The automation includes italicizing the names of appropriate ranks. However, there are some exceptional cases where manual formatting of taxon names is needed; for example, the automatic formatting does not work correctly when uncertain names are indicated by surrounding them by double quotes, or for [[candidatus]] names in the [[International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes]].

For these exceptional cases, it is possible to supply the full wikitext of genus and species names.
*{{para|taxon}} now specifies the lowest ranked taxon that will be handled automatically via a taxonomy template
*if this taxon is not a genus, {{para|genus_text}} supplies the full wikitext of the genus name, complete with all required formatting including bold text if it is the lowest ranked name in the taxobox.  If not the lowest rank, a link should be included for navigation.
*{{para|species_text}} supplies the full wikitext of the abbreviated species name, complete with all required formatting, including bold text if it is the lowest ranked name in the taxobox; the species name should be complete with an <em>abbreviated</em> genus name (e.g. <code>{{nowrap|<nowiki>'''"''C.''" ''poecilonotus'''''</nowiki>}}</code> to produce {{nowrap|'''"''C.''" ''poecilonotus'''''}})
*{{para|binomial_text}} supplies the full wikitext of the binomial name (the text that appears in the binomial box of a species taxobox), again complete with all the required formatting; however binomials are automatically made bold, so this element is not needed

If the article has the unusually formatted scientific name as its title, it will also be necessary to use <code><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE:...}}</nowiki></code> to format the article title and {{para|name}} to supply the formatted heading for the taxobox.

===Examples===
{{Automatic taxobox
|name = ''Quassia'' sp. 'Mount Nardi'
|taxon = Quassia
|species_text = {{nowrap|'''''Q.'' sp. 'Mount Nardi''''}}
|binomial_text = ''Quassia'' sp. 'Mount Nardi'
}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Quassia'' sp. 'Mount Nardi'}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|name = ''Quassia'' sp. 'Mount Nardi'
|taxon = Quassia
|species_text = {{nowrap|'''''Q.'' sp. 'Mount Nardi''''}}
|binomial_text = ''Quassia'' sp. 'Mount Nardi'
}}</syntaxhighlight>
*The taxonomic hierarchy from the genus ''Quassia'' upwards is obtained from taxonomy templates, starting with [[Template:Taxonomy/Quassia]]. Clicking on the red pencil icon takes you to this template.
*The wikitext for the species row and the binomial box are used exactly as supplied. (The {{tlx|nowrap}} in the species text ensures that parts of the name don't wrap onto the next line, and wouldn't be needed if an image made the taxobox wider.) 
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = "''Colostethus''" ''poecilonotus''
| taxon = Dendrobatidae
| genus_text = "''[[Colostethus]]''"
| species_text =  '''"''C.''"&nbsp;''poecilonotus'''''
| binomial_text =  "''Colostethus''" ''poecilonotus''
| authority = [[Juan A. Rivero|Rivero]], 1991
}}
<syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext">{{DISPLAYTITLE:"''Colostethus''" ''poecilonotus''}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = "''Colostethus''" ''poecilonotus''
| taxon = Dendrobatidae
| genus_text = "''[[Colostethus]]''"
| species_text =  '''"''C.''"&amp;nbsp;''poecilonotus'''''
| binomial_text =  "''Colostethus''" ''poecilonotus''
| authority = [[Juan A. Rivero|Rivero]], 1991
}}</syntaxhighlight>
*The taxonomic hierarchy from the family Dendrobatidae upwards is obtained from taxonomy templates, starting with [[Template:Taxonomy/Dendrobatidae]]. Clicking on the red pencil icon takes you to this template. No taxonomy template is used for the genus.
*The wikitext for the genus and species rows, plus the binomial box, are used exactly as supplied. (The <code>&amp;nbsp;</code> in the species wikitext prevents the two parts of the name appearing on separate lines; it's not always necessary.)
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