Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Contest/Spooky Species Contest

Welcome to the first annual Spooky Species contest!

Contest structure

The Spooky Species contest will run from Sept 24-Oct 31, with the winner announced in the first week of November! I'm starting it with a week left in September to give articles time to work through the DYK process and appear on the main page (if they aren't reserved for the special occasions hooks for Halloween).

Improving article class will be rewarded with points, with bigger improvements and higher classes rewarded more points. I have gone through nearly all the species in the table and updated their classes if necessary, so the starting class listed should hopefully be accurate. You can update classes of articles you improve, but please do so honestly.

Participants will get an extra 3 points for each DYK that appears on the main page (for new and expanded articles or recent GAs)
You will also get 3 points for reviewing someone else's spooky species GA
There will also be a bonus system for page views
If you collaborate with another editor for an article, you can each claim points

Points table
		Ending class
		Start /List	C/ CL	B/ BL	GA	FA/ FL
Beginning class	None/Stub	+1	+3	+6	+11	+26
	Start/List		+2	+5	+10	+25
	C/CL			+3	+8	+23
	B/BL				+5	+20
	GA					+15

Page view bonus
30 day views	Bonus points
>500	1.1x
>1000	1.2x
>2000	1.3x
>3000	1.4x
>4000	1.5x
>5000	1.6x

So if I improve zombie worm from C to GA, my base points would be 8. With the 1.3x multiplier for page views, I would have 10.4 points. If it appeared on the main page as a DYK, I would have 13.4 points for this article in total.

Contestants

If you would like to participate, please copy the blank table below into a new subsection of this section with your username as the title.

Article name	Beginning class	Ending class	Page view bonus	DYK bonus	Total

Enwebb

Article name	Beginning class	Ending class	Page view bonus	DYK bonus	Total
Halloween darter	Stub	GA	0	3	14
Coffin Cave mold beetle	Stub	C	0	3	6
Singapore graveyard flower	Stub	start	1.2x		1.2
Devils Hole pupfish	C	B	1.3x		3.9
Deathwatch beetle	NA	GA	NA	NA	3
Total					28.1

Nessie

Article name	Beginning class	Ending class	Page view bonus	DYK bonus	Total
Longan witches broom-associated virus🍈🧙‍♀️🧹🦠	redlink	c?	TBD	TBD	TBD
Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example
Example	Example	Example	Example	Example	Example

Cwmhiraeth

Article name	Beginning class	Ending class	Page view bonus	DYK bonus	Total
Death's-head hawkmoth	Start	C	1.6x	-	3.2
Hildegarde's tomb bat	Stub	Start	0	3	4
Naked-rumped tomb bat	Stub	C	0	3	5
Deathwatch beetle	Start	GA	1.5x	-	15
Poison devil's-pepper	Stub	Start	1.2x	-	1.2
Halloween darter	Stub	GA	0	3	14

I have left Enwebb to decide what, if anything, I deserve for the Halloween darter, as I started expanding it before the contest began, and my participation after that was minimal, but it did appear on DYK at Halloween because I nominated it. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:56, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I'd say we were collaborators. Fine by me to say it went from stub to GA. Enwebb (talk) 17:14, 2 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

starsandwhales

Article name	Beginning class	Ending class	Page view bonus	DYK bonus	Total
Boophis popi 👻	redlink	C	x1.6	+3	7.8

Prizes

Definitely some kind of awesome Halloween barnstar, TBD!

Species list

taxon	order	kingdom	class	30 day views
Phantom shiner	Cypriniformes	Animalia	Start	276
Phantom blindcat	Siluriformes	Animalia	Stub	32
Phantom cardinalfish	Kurtiformes	Animalia	Stub	8
Natal ghost frog	Anura	Animalia	Stub	35
Hewitt's ghost frog	Anura	Animalia	Stub	24
Eastern ghost frog	Anura	Animalia	Stub	43
Purcell's ghost frog	Anura	Animalia	Stub	17
Royal ghost frog	Anura	Animalia	Start	30
Rose's ghost frog	Anura	Animalia	Start	115
Skeleton frog (80 spp.)	Anura	Animalia	C	279
Northern ghost bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	307
Greater ghost bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	Stub	57
Isabelle's ghost bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	Stub	56
Lesser ghost bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	56
Ghost-faced bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	537
Antillean ghost-faced bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	130
Giant ghost-faced bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	37
Ghost bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	B	1218
Hildegarde's tomb bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	Stub	24
Ghost knifefish (89 spp.)	Gymnotiformes	Animalia	Start	422
Ghost nudibranch	Nudibranchia	Animalia	Start	19
Ghost yellow	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Stub	30
Ghost moth	Lepidoptera	Animalia	B	604
Ghost crab (22 spp.)	Decapoda	Animalia	C	6,254
American ghost orchid	Asparagales	Plantae	C	3,343
European ghost orchid	Asparagales	Plantae	Start	368
Blanchard's ghost	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Stub	13
Ghost pipefish (6 spp.)	Syngnathiformes	Animalia	Start	201
Pale ghost shark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Start	122
Whitespot ghost shark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	C	30
Black ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	C	109
Bight ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Stub	21
Marbled ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Stub	4
Galápagos ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	B	16
Eastern Pacific black ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Stub	43
Dark ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Stub	51
Ogilby's ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Stub	35
Ghost shiner	Cypriniformes	Animalia	C	40
Javan ghost shrew	Eulipotyphla	Animalia	Stub	9
Panama ghost catshark	Carcharhiniformes	Animalia	Stub	53
Ghost catshark	Carcharhiniformes	Animalia	Start	92
White ghost catshark	Carcharhiniformes	Animalia	Stub	77
Australian ghostshark	Chimaeriformes	Animalia	Start	3,092
Thorny devil	Squamata	Animalia	C	6,208
Devil rays (8 spp. w/ "devil" in common name)	Myliobatiformes	Animalia	variable	3,344
Beelzebufo	Anura	Animalia	Start	3,372
Devil's coach horse beetle	Coleoptera	Animalia	C	12,655
Devil's tree	Gentianales	Plantae	C	5,440
Devil's walking stick	Apiales	Plantae	C	2,204
Black seadevil	Lophiiformes	Animalia	C	1,733
Southern seadevil	Lophiiformes	Animalia	Stub	33
Stargazing seadevil	Lophiiformes	Animalia	Stub	36
Triplewart seadevil	Lophiiformes	Animalia	C	516
Satanic leaf-tailed gecko	Squamata	Animalia	C	4,784
Daemonosaurus	Saurischia	Animalia	B	946
Diabloceratops	Ornithischia	Animalia	C	1,386
Zuul	Ornithischia	Animalia	B	2,133
Sauroniops	Saurischia	Animalia	Start	481
Satan	Siluriformes	Animalia	Start	514
Demon-duck of doom	Gastornithiformes	Animalia	Stub	1,452
Hellbender	Urodela	Animalia	B	11,482
Diabolotherium	Pilosa	Animalia	Stub	150
Demon African mole-rat	Rodentia	Animalia	Stub	94
Beelzebub's tube-nosed bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	348
Shortnose demon catshark	Carcharhiniformes	Animalia	Stub	46
Satanic nightjar	Caprimulgiformes	Animalia	Stub	181
Goblin spiders (2500 spp.)	Araneae	Animalia	variable	434
Ogre-faced spiders (51 spp.)	Araneae	Animalia	variable	689
Goblin flea	Siphonaptera	Animalia	Start	22
Ogre catfish	Siluriformes	Animalia	Start	607
Zombie worm	Sabellida	Animalia	C	2,380
Leucochloridium (turns snails into zombies; 8 spp.)	Diplostomida	Animalia	Variable	8,250
Ophiocordyceps (turns ants into zombies; 140 spp.)	Hypocreales	Fungi	Variable	1,483
Cordyceps (zombifies humans in a fiction novel; 400 spp.)	Hypocreales	Fungi	Variable	26,831
Vampire bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	B	17,611
Hairy-legged vampire bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	1,516
White-winged vampire bat	Chiroptera	Animalia	B	1,619
Vampire ground finch	Passeriformes	Animalia	Start	1,075
Vampire moths (18 spp.)	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Variable	1,750
Vampire squid	Vampyromorphida	Animalia	C	9,817
Vampire tree frog	Anura	Animalia	C	109
Pteropus vampyrus	Chiroptera	Animalia	B	6,599
Lygniodes vampyrus	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Stub	7
Draculoides bramstokeri	Schizomida	Animalia	Stub	92
Dracula fish	Cypriniformes	Animalia	Start	166
Dracula vampira	Asparagales	Plantae	Start	161
Stonogobiops dracula	Gobiiformes	Animalia	Stub	21
Desmodus draculae	Chiroptera	Animalia	C	2,087
American witch hazel	Saxifragales	Plantae	C	3,296
Black witch	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Start	4,816
Chinese witch hazel	Saxifragales	Plantae	Start	727
Fall Witch-grass	Poales	Plantae	Stub	82
Lilac witches'-broom	Acholeplasmatales	Bacteria	C	92
Longan witches broom-associated virus	Riboviria incertae sedis	Virus	nonexistent
white witch moth	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Start	3,512
Witch (lefteye flounder)	Pleuronectiformes	Animalia	Stub	67
Witch (righteye flounder)	Pleuronectiformes	Animalia	B	874
Witch-elm	Rosales	Plantae	C	3,758
Witch Hazel Dagger Moth	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Stub	13
Witch-hobble	Dipsacales	Plantae	Stub	623
Witch's moneybags	Saxifragales	Plantae	Stub	1,432
Witches broom disease	Agaricales	Fungi	C	266
corpse lily	Malpighiales	Plantae	C	10,712
Skeleton tarantula	Araneae	Animalia	C	689
skull spider	Araneae	Animalia	Start	9,677
Deathwatch beetle	Coleoptera	Animalia	Start	4,298
death adders (9 spp.)	Squamata	Animalia	Variable	2,765
Death-banded snake-eel	Anguilliformes	Animalia	Stub	15
East Asian brown deathcap	Agaricales	Fungi	Start	147
Death's-head hawkmoth	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Start	10,592
dead man's rope	Laminariales	Chromista	Start	160
Red dead man's fingers	Alcyonacea	Animalia	Start	46
Coffin Cave mold beetle	Coleoptera	Animalia	Stub	34
Blood-eared parakeet	Psittaciformes	Animalia	Stub	55
Blood-colored woodpecker	Piciformes	Animalia	Start	42
Bloody Bay poison frog	Anura	Animalia	Stub	49
bloody butcher	Liliales	Plantae	Stub	90
bloody frogfish	Lophiiformes	Animalia	Start	10
Halloween darter	Perciformes	Animalia	Stub	18
Xylaria polymorpha (Dead man's fingers)	Xylariales	Fungi	Start	2,217
Alcyonium digitatum (Dead man's fingers)	Alcyonacea	Animalia	Start	554
Codium fragile (Dead man's fingers)	Bryopsidales	Algae	C	974
Decaisnea (Dead man's fingers)	Ranunculales	Plantae	Start	684
Bathyphysa conifera (flying spaghetti monster)	Siphonophorae	Animalia	C	393
Tullimonstrum (Tully monster)	Incertae sedis	Animalia	C	1711
Lucifer sheartail	Apodiformes	Animalia	Start	176
Lucifer titi	Primates	Animalia	Stub	187
Poecilanthrax lucifer	Diptera	Animalia	Stub	28
Pseudagrion lucifer	Odonata	Animalia	Stub	4
Paraxerus lucifer	Rodentia	Animalia	Stub	57
Hyposmocoma lucifer	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Stub	4
Cychropsis lucifer	Coleoptera	Animalia	Stub	5
Lucigadus lucifer	Gadiformes	Animalia	Stub	8
Devil's club	Apiales	Plantae	C	3,157
Devil's snare	Solanales	Plantae	C	76,780
Devil's tongue	Alismatales	Plantae	C	31,571
Devils Hole pupfish	Cyprinodontiformes	Animalia	C	2,178
Devil's beggartick	Asterales	Plantae	Start	1,520
Devil's horsewhip	Caryophyllales	Plantae	Start	5,949
Devil's bush	Apiales	Plantae	C	3,664
Devil’s-bit Scabious	Dipsacales	Plantae	Start	1,310
Devil's Hair	Ranunculales	Plantae	Stub	2,138
Devil's eyelashes	Zygophyllales	Plantae	C	17,615
Purple-flowered devil's-claw	Lamiales	Plantae	C	761
Poison devil's pepper	Gentianales	Plantae	Stub	1,037
Grand Devil's-Claws	Caryophyllales	Plantae	Start	426
Devil's paint-brush	Asterales	Plantae	Start	1,085
Devil's hand tree	Malvales	Plantae	Start	406
Devils River minnow	Cypriniformes	Animalia	C	42
Devil's-bit conch	Lepidoptera	Animalia	Stub	6
Devil's spineflower	Caryophyllales	Plantae	Start	39
Eastern blue devil	incertae sedis (fish)	Animalia	Start	88
Alison’s blue devil	incertae sedis (fish)	Animalia	Stub	7
Blue damselfish	incertae sedis (fish)	Animalia	Stub	222
Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus (and genus, family, order...)	Vampirovibrionales	bacteria	C	224
Crypt-keeper wasp	Hymenoptera	Animalia	Start	925
Green terror	Cichliformes	Animalia	Start	2,345
Terror skink	Squamata	Animalia	Start	377
Singapore graveyard flower	Gentianales	Plantae	Stub	1,655
Proboscidea althaeifolia (yellow-flowered devil's claw)	Lamiales	Plantae	Stub	100
Proboscidea parviflora (red devil's-claw)	Lamiales	Plantae	Stub	243
Proboscidea sabulosa (dune devil's claw)	Lamiales	Plantae	Stub	46
Hell Hollow slender salamander	Caudata	Animalia	Stub	24
Ganonema dracula^[1]	Trichoptera	Animalia	red	n/a
Halloween moon crab	Decapoda	Animalia	Start	1421
Halloween hermit crab	Decapoda	Animalia	C	297
Goblin shark	Lamniformes	Animalia	FA	15613
Mitsukurinidae (goblin sharks)	Lamniformes	Animalia	Stub	16
Skeletonema and many species	Thalassiosirales	Algae	start	637
Gothic (moth)	Lepidoptera	Animalia	start
Elysia frankenstein	Sacoglossa	Animalia	red	n/a

This list is not exhaustive for spooky species on Wikipedia—you can add articles to the table!

References

^ Malicky, Hans (1994). "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis asiatischer Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera). (Artikel über thailändische Köcherfliegen Nr. 13)" [A contribution to the knowledge of Asian Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera). (Article about Thai caddis fly No. 13)] (PDF). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen (in German). 46 (69): 62–79. ISSN 0375-5223. OCLC 635723128.

[Malicky-1] Malicky, Hans (1994). "Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis asiatischer Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera). (Artikel über thailändische Köcherfliegen Nr. 13)" [A contribution to the knowledge of Asian Calamoceratidae (Trichoptera). (Article about Thai caddis fly No. 13)] (PDF). Zeitschrift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen (in German). 46 (69): 62–79. ISSN 0375-5223. OCLC 635723128.

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