Talk:Cultural depictions of dinosaurs

First sentence
The first sentence reads, "By human standards, dinosaurs were creatures of fantastic appearance and often enormous size." There are a large number of dinosaurs that weren't large by human standards, this should be clarified.--Blackmagicfish 05:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Clarified. How about that? Dåvid Fuchs ( talk / frog blast the vent core! ) 15:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Dinosaur renaissance
Why does Dinosaur renaissance redirect here? -- it was shift in scientific thought as much as popular culture, and the article doesn't even cover it. John.Conway 12:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Caves and Volcanoes
I'm curious how an association came to exist between dinosaurs, caves, and volcanoes in trite cinema. I suppose that The Lost World and Brute Force had something to do with this, but does it go back even further? I understand that early (though forced) confusions in the timeline would put cavemen and dinosaurs at each other's throats, but how did volcanoes sneak in? 204.186.60.80 17:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd have to check the exact artist, but it was an influential muralist of the mid 20th century who really cemented the "volcano=dinosaur times" association. J. Spencer 20:39, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
 * It was Rudolph Zallinger, from the post-WWII era, with his fondness for cinder cone volcanoes. J. Spencer 04:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

Little Children
Shouldn't there be something in the article about how virtually every little kid is obssessed with dinosaurs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.238.142.89 (talk) 02:11, 5 August 2009 (UTC)

There already is, see the "Appeal" subsection at the bottom of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.36.130.109 (talk) 23:31, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

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Misconceptions
I think it's not quite fair to list, for example, dinosaurs as 'monsters who do nothing but fight each other' as a misconception when nobody has any idea what dinosaur behavior is/was. A lot of animals spend all their time fighting... Tasmanian devils, for one. It's certainly a cliché, but hardly a mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 16:54, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

GA?
You know, I think this could be a good article. Any thoughts? J. Spencer (talk) 00:49, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * The references need some reformatting, and there are some statements that need clarification, but I think we could nominate this in a few days when we do some tidying up. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 03:36, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. where does it need to be adjusted? J. Spencer (talk) 16:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * All the references need to use the appropriate Citation template. There's only a handful that don't, but it needs to be done before it can get nominated. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 02:45, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I fixed the web references. There are a few places where I had referenced an article or page in a book, and the book had already received a full citation treatment, so I only used part of the information instead of repeating everything again.  This was to keep page size down.  Would you prefer if I expanded those too? J. Spencer (talk) 01:03, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:CITET templates are expressly not required. From CITET: "The use of Citation templates is not required by WP:CITE and is neither encouraged nor discouraged by any other Wikipedia citation guidelines. They may be used at the discretion of individual editors, subject to agreement with the other editors on the article." Firsfron of Ronchester  13:56, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I dunno, the last GA nomination I worked on, the citations turned out to be the deal clincher. Better to have it done now than later when there's only a one week review. -- Nick Penguin ( contribs ) 11:46, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
 * If people are failing GANs because of the use or non-use of optional templates, that's something that should be brought up at WT:GAN. Firsfron of Ronchester  14:22, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Your mother was a dinosaur!
Shouldn't mockings of relatives bieng dinosaurs be listed? Somewhere? 24.56.20.41 (talk) 22:52, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
Shouldn't the kids television show Power Rangers be qualified under '1980s to the present', as the original series used dinosaurs as their source for 'zords'?

--74.72.86.55 (talk) 21:31, 30 September 2009 (UTC)p4poetic--74.72.86.55 (talk) 21:31, 30 September 2009 (UTC)


 * The article deals with the subject in a broad way, not as a list. Is there some particular aspect that makes the Power Rangers dinosaurs stand out above the crowd of dinosaurs in kids' entertainment? J. Spencer (talk) 23:17, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Dinosaurs in Fiction
How about spawning a separate article to cover this topic. There are many works of fiction on dinosaurs (movies, novels, etc), and it would be a good idea to cover it separately. 94.6.243.138 (talk) 23:08, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

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