User:AxonsArachnida

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This user likes spiders.

This user collects insects.

This user is interested in
Entomology

This user is a member of Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Insects.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Beetles.

ORCİD

This user has the ORCID identifier
0000-0001-9988-5985

This user is the main author of
17 Good Articles

This user helped promote
3 featured articles on Wikipedia.

This user is proud knowing that they are one in 78,802.

Introduction

Hello, I'm Shaun Thompson, also known as AxonsArachnida. I am a New Zealand based entomologist/arachnologist. I am still somewhat new to Wikipedia/Wikidata but I am learning fast. I am employed by Te Papa as detailed in my Conflict of Interest below. Although I am associated with Te Papa, my wiki related activities are not part of my professional work there and are entirely a hobby.

My overarching goal

My aim is to turn Wikipedia into a extremely detailed and reliable source of information on New Zealand's wildlife. Much of what is known is hidden within academia and is difficult to access for the lay person. This information should be made easy to access and understand.

Reviewing

If asked, I'm usually happy to review species articles for Good/Featured status if time is permitting. I'm also happy to make suggestions for species articles in general.

To do

Get Huhu beetle up to Good Article, then Featured Article status.
Get Megadromus capito up to Good Article status.
Get New Zealand bat fly up to Good Article status.
Get Nysius huttoni up to Good Article status.
Create article for Rowan Emberson
Get Austrovenus stutchburyi up to Good Article, then Featured Article status.
Get Harmonia antipodum up to Good Article status.

Articles I've worked on that have passed FA/GA/DYK

New Zealand invertebrates 100 Good Articles project

I aim to make 100 "Good Article" pages about species of New Zealand invertebrates. My progress is listed below.

Ten Coleoptera Good Articles:
- Zecicindela feredayi
- Neocicindela tuberculata
- Mecodema howittii
- Megadromus guerinii
- Zorion opacum

50% completed (estimate)

Ten Diptera Good Articles:

30% completed (estimate)

Ten Hymenoptera Good Articles:
- Prolasius advenus

10% completed (estimate)

Ten Hemiptera Good Articles:
- Oncacontias

10% completed (estimate)

Ten small order insect/lepidoptera Good Articles:
- Epiphryne verriculata

10% completed (estimate)

Ten Araneae Good Articles:
- Trite auricoma
- Desis marina

20% completed (estimate)

Ten miscellaneous terrestrial Arthropod Good Articles:
- Cormocephalus rubriceps

10% completed (estimate)

Ten Mollusc Good Articles:
- Robsonella huttoni

10% completed (estimate)

Ten miscellaneous marine Arthropod Good Articles:
- Alicella gigantea
- Upogebia hirtifrons

20% completed (estimate)

Ten miscellaneous marine invertebrate Good Articles:

0% completed (estimate)

Overall completion:

17% completed (estimate)

My statistics

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More information Awards from fellow users ...

Awards from fellow users

		The Auckland Museum Wiki-Award
		Congratulations Shaun! You've received the The Auckland Museum Wiki-Award as a thank you for creating the article on Subantarctia turbotti. Great job! --Prosperosity (talk) 09:27, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Thank you for creating clean articles about spiders. Cheers! Dcotos (talk) 07:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Congratulations AxonsArachnida, you are awarded a **Triple Crown** for your impressive work on the article Alicella. Damien Linnane (talk) 03:14, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

AxonsArachnida, I hereby award you the **Imperial Triple Crown Jewels** for you ongoing efforts to improve Wikipedia. Your hard work is appreciated. Damien Linnane (talk) 11:32, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

		The Featured Article Medal
		By the authority vested in me by myself it gives me great pleasure to present you with this special, very exclusive award created just for we few, we happy few, this band of brothers, who have shed sweat, tears and probably blood, in order to be able to proudly claim "I too have taken an article to Featured status". Gog the Mild (talk) 12:23, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

animals of New Zealand

Thank you for quality articles about amphipoda such as Alicella, spiders such as Trite auricoma, for Opifex fuscus, Megadromus guerinii and Cormocephalus rubriceps, for "This information should be made easy to access and understand." - Shaun, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

You are recipient no. 3007 of Precious, a prize of QAI. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:25, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Conflict of Interest

Shaun Thompson

PhD Student/Collections Technician
Te Papa

Contact me

shaun.thompson@tepapa.govt.nz

About me

I am a paid employee of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa), an autonomous Crown entity of New Zealand that provides a forum in which the nation may present, explore, and preserve both the heritage of its cultures and knowledge of the natural environment in order to better understand and treasure the past, enrich the present, and meet the challenges of the future. We are working to make our holdings, publications, and other resources more accessible to the public by engaging directly with the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons.

Conflict of interest statement

When I am editing the Wikimedia Foundation projects Wikipedia, Wikidata or contributing to Wikimedia Commons as part of my official professional duties, I always strive to strictly abide by the accepted practices on conflicts of interest, neutrality, and notability of that particular project. Because Te Papa's educational mission is in line with Wikipedia's mission to disseminate knowledge freely, I will not make edits that I do not believe are in accordance with that Wikimedia Foundation projects practices and procedures. Therefore, I will not make substantive edits to articles related to Te Papa as an agency (e.g. Te Papa), or its personnel. Instead, my edits and contributions will be to contribute subject matter expertise, for example to improve articles about Te Papa holdings or subjects relating to New Zealand (e.g. Phar Lap, New Zealand art).

You can find out more about this project at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa WikiProject. Te Papa’s work on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons is being governed by internal guidelines, which we have published on-wiki in our WikiProject page. If you believe I have made an error or violated Wikipedia’s norms, please do not hesitate to contact me. My email is also listed on this page in case I am not regularly checking my talk page.

Contact me

About me

Conflict of interest statement

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