The automated taxobox system is used to automatically generate the classification (taxonomic hierarchy) in a taxobox. It is designed to require the absolute minimum user input and research, and so provide higher-quality classification.

If you have a general question about any part of the system, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Automated taxobox system. Issues with particular automated taxobox templates, such as {{Speciesbox}} or {{Automatic taxobox}} can be raised at their talk pages (e.g. Template talk:Speciesbox or Template talk:Automatic taxobox).

• Introduction
• Why use the system?
• Making it work
• More technical details
• Map of all called templates

Taxonomy templates

• Introduction to taxonomy templates
• Advanced features of taxonomy templates

Taxobox templates

• Which should be used?
• Changing the taxa displayed
• Convert a taxobox to an automated taxobox
• Glossary of automated taxobox parameters
• Automatic taxobox – mainly for genera and higher taxa
• Speciesbox – for a species
• Subspeciesbox – for an animal subspecies
• Infraspeciesbox – for a plant subspecies or variety
• Hybridbox – for an animal hybrid within a genus
• Ichnobox – for a trace fossil
• Oobox – for a fossil egg
• Virusbox – for viruses and non-cellular life
• Paraphyletic group – for concepts that do not correspond to a monophyletic clade
• Population taxobox - for notable populations of subspecies of animals

Category used for all taxobox templates:

• Category:Taxobox templates (79)

Category used for all taxonomy templates:

• Category:Taxonomy templates (112,557)

Tracking/error categories:

• Category:Automatic taxobox cleanup (0)
• Category:Taxoboxes with the error color (0)
• Category:Taxoboxes with no color (1) – not necessarily an error
• Category:Taxoboxes with the incertae sedis color (55) – not necessarily an error
• Category:Taxonomy templates using unrecognized rank parameters (0)
• Category:Taxonomy templates showing anomalous ranks (0)
• Category:Taxonomy templates using always_display (893) – not usually an error, but should be special cases
• Category:Unnecessary taxonomy templates (0) – usually species templates redundant to the genus template
  • For potential members see Category:Taxonomy templates for species (8))

Hidden categories added by Taxobox/core:

• Category:Articles using diversity taxobox (1,802)
• Category:Articles with 'species' microformats (465,804)