User:Snoteleks

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This user has been on Wikipedia for 4 years, 4 months and 10 days.

This user participates in
WikiProject Protista.

This user participates in
WikiProject Fungi.

This user is a member of the
taxobox task force

This user uses Biodiversity Heritage Library to do research for Wikipedia.

 0.0018% This user has created 130 of the 7,101,388 articles on the English language Wikipedia.

This user is interested in Phylogeny.

This user is Spanish.

This user is a biologist.

This user is an advocate of open research and open access.

This user is interested in invertebrates of all kinds.

This user is interested in astronomy.

This user enjoys cooking.

This user is interested in maps.

This user enjoys photography.

Biologist and MSc in Biodiversity from Madrid, Spain; currently in Canada working on my PhD on protists. Seeking to expand the public availability of scientific knowledge. Founder of WikiProject Protista (all are welcome!). My main interests revolve around the evolution and biodiversity of protists and other organisms.

Ongoing projects

• Improving articles on the deep evolution of eukaryotes, e.g., Diaphoretickes (since 9 June)
• Developing Draft:Glossary of protistology (since 11 May)
• Improving Algae (since 13 May)
• Improving Protist up to GA standards (since a year ago)
• Maintaining Protist classification (since 2022)

Articles

A list of all the articles I've either created or overhauled (i.e. given major improvements to, to the point where the majority of text/edits are mine), in order of article quality.

Good Articles

• Cafileria
• Chrompodellid
• Diaphoretickes
• Holozoa
• Hyalospheniidae
• Katablepharid
• Nucleariid
• Ochrophyte
• Parvilucifera
• Rapaza
• Syssomonas
• Telonemia
• Urceolus
• Vampyrellida

B-Class Articles

• Orciraptor
• Protist

C-class Articles

• Actinosphaerium
• Amastigomonas
• Anisonemia
• Apusomonad
• Barthelona
• Bigyra
• Cercozoa
• Certesella
• Chlorophyta
• Cryptocalicium
• Commation
• Cortical alveolum
• Cutosea
• Dictyochales
• Dictyotales
• Eumycetozoa
• Evosea
• Glissomonadida
• Heinrichs Skuja
• Heliorapha
• Helkesida
• Imasa
• Jarrellia
• Kaonashia
• Katabia
• Limnofila
• Malawimonad
• Maldanidae
• Mayorella
• Moyeria
• Nebela
• Ochromonadales
• Olisthodiscus
• Orbiniida
• Padaungiella
• Parviluciferaceae
• Pediglissa
• Pedinellales
• Peranemid
• Perkinsea
• Phaeodarea
• Phycophthorum
• Plasmodiophore
• Pleistoannelida
• Ploeotia
• Protist
• Rhizoplast
• Sarcomonadea
• Skoliomonas
• Spirocuta
• Stygiellidae
• Supergroup (biology)
• Synchroma
• Thecamonadinae
• Thecofilosea
• Trichosphaerium
• Urceolus alenizini
• Urceolus cornutus
• Urceolus cyclostomus
• Viridiraptoridae

Start-class Articles

• Actinophrys
• Alabasta
• Anania (foraminifera)
• Arachnomyces bostrychodes
• Arachnomyces flavidulus
• Astracantha (protist)
• Aurigamonas
• Calcarisporiellales
• Chelonemonas
• Chlorophyta
• Chloropicaceae
• Chromosome scaffold
• Commation cryoporinum
• Commation eposianum
• Corycidia
• Cryptodifflugia
• Cryptodifflugia leachi
• Cryptodifflugiidae
• Cryptofilida
• Deuteropoda
• Dictyocha
• Divimonas
• Dracoamoeba
• Endosphaera
• Entosiphon
• Errantia
• Erugomicula
• Euglenophyceae
• Euglyphia (protist)
• Eurotiomycetes
• Eutreptiaceae
• Gyrista
• Hazardia (microsporidian)
• Leucodictyida
• Leptomyxa
• Linea
• Luapeleamoeba
• Luapeleamoeba hula
• Mantamonas
• Mantamonas sphyraenae
• Massisteria marina
• Mayorella marianaensis
• Meisterfeldia
• Mesofila
• Microheliella
• Minimassisteria
• Miracula
• Naegleria lustrarea
• Neometanema
• Opalinata
• Orcadia riedeli
• Pansomonad
• Planocarina
• Platysulcus
• Pleurosigma
• Pleurosigma pacificum
• Podomonas
• Porosia
• Prantlitina
• Protacanthamoeba
• Protodriliformia
• Pteridomonas
• Raphidophyte
• Rhopalophora clavispora
• Saccharomycomorpha
• Sappinia dangeardi
• Sedentaria
• Tetrahelia
• Tetramyxa parasitica
• Thecamoeba homeri
• Tunicaraptor
• Urospora (alveolate)
• Vacuolamoeba
• Ventrata
• Ventrifilosa
• Viridiraptor
• Wobblata
• Xenodevriesia

Stub-class Articles

• Ameson
• Arachnomyces
• Chloroparvula
• Chloropicon
• Cladochytriales
• Cryptaulaxella
• Endohelea
• Gefionella
• Granofilosea
• Hiya (plant)
• Iridia
• lamina irreperta
• Lana (genus)
• Lumbriclymeninae
• Maldanomorpha
• Mantamonas plastica
• Mantamonas vickermani
• Massisteria
• Massisteriidae
• Meteora sporadica
• Nanofila
• Nothia (foraminifera)
• Notoproctus
• Opalomonadea
• Opalozoa
• Orcadia (fungus)
• Paracercomonadidae
• Phagomyxid
• Picophagus
• Proleptomonas
• Pseudocucurbitella
• Raphidomonadea
• Raphopoda
• Rhodine
• Rhodininae
• Saccarena
• Saccorhiza (foraminifera)
• Sainouridae
• Synura
• Terebelliformia
• Tetramyxa
• Uniciliatida
• Xenus lithophylli

List-class Articles

• Protist classification
• Taxonomy of the Gastropoda (Bouchet et al., 2017)

Templates

• Template:Protist fossil record
• Template:Discoba
• Template:Metamonada

Kind support from wonderful people

		Microbiology barnstar
		For your absolutely amazing work at WikiProject Protista. I'm normally hanging around WikiProject Insects and WP:GA, and came across your work browsing the backlong. For an editor who's only been around for two years or so, you're work is amazing quality. Keep it up!!! 🏵️Etrius (Us) 03:29, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

		The Tree of Life Barnstar
		For your first GA review, and another successful promotion with Parvilucifera, congratulations! Thank you for your continued hard work in improving the quality of diverse organisms on Wikipedia. Fritzmann (message me) 19:29, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Gallery

Sometimes I draw images for Wikipedia, such as the following:

• 
  Ochrophyte cell
• 
  Chlorophyte cell
• 
  Protists in the soil food web
• 
  Map of the WP:TOL projects
• 
  Infographic on the occurrence of unicellularity and multicellularity across life
• 
  Occurrence of plastid endosymbiosis across eukaryotes. Pictures are free images by Keeling & Eglit (2023)

Useful resources

• Tool that gives automatic citation templates just with the DOI or URL (shoutout to @Plantdrew, I discovered this in their profile)
• Synonyms of the most frequent concepts used in taxonomic articles, to avoid repetition when writing:
  • group (noun, as in group of taxa): collection, assemblage, category, assortment...
  • has (verb, as in has cellular structures): contains, exhibits, presents, displays, possesses, carries...
  • is composed of (verb, for clade composition): comprises, includes, groups, contains, encompasses...
  • evolved (verb, to mention adaptations and synapomorphies): obtained, gained, acquired, inherited (HGT), achieved...
  • considered (verb, to reflect scientific consensus): regarded as, known to be, treated as...

Favourite images

• 
  Vaprio d'Adda, Bernardo Bellotto 1744

Rabbit holes

This is a collection of curious Wikipedia rabbit holes I've found myself reading through.

• User:JzG/charlatans → Wikipedia:Lunatic charlatans → Wikipedia:Complete bollocks → User:Geogre — A user that stopped editing ages ago, before I was old enough to be self-aware. They have since allowed their userpage to be a gallery of poems by people who either appreciate or criticize them. Even disregarding those, it's simply an interesting reading experience into a world before the Wikipedia that I know and love today, full of early internet philosophy and English eccentricity. This person was referenced by others in essays and was clearly somewhat of a niche wiki-celebrity. (16 August 2025)