User:PaleoGeekSquared

Hi! My name is Alexander Vieira, otherwise known as PaleoGeek, though sometimes (like on Wikipedia) I go by my other pseudonym PaleoGeekSquared. I'm a Venezuelan illustrator and animator based in Cardiff, Wales. My work primarily focuses on nature illustration, palaeoart, and scientific journalism of palaeontology. I joined Wikipedia's palaeontology and dinosaur WikiProjects to collaborate towards improving articles on prehistoric animals (such as non-avian dinosaurs), and thus help promote a more modern understanding of ancient life to the general public. My experience on the site has been incredibly enriching and educational. I'm quite proud of the contributions I've been able to make, and I encourage others to do the same.

Are you a palaeontology nerd, dinosaur lover, or biology student fascinated with the science of extinct organisms? If you can relate to any of these niches, and share my love for learning and teaching at the same time, then I highly recommend learning to edit Wikipedia and joining the WikiProject Dinosaurs and/or WikiProject Palaeontology communities. You could expand articles on poorly-covered prehistoric taxa; submit your own artwork to the dinosaur or palaeoart review pages; and review palaeo articles for good or featured candidacy or help promote them to said status yourself. Wikipedia is for everybody and anybody to edit after all! And in the golden age of fossil finds and scientific communication of palaeontology we're now in, there's never been a better time to be a Wikipedia editor.

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Current Projects
As of now, my primary focus on Wikipedia is improving and expanding articles related to the  Spinosauridae , a unique and beautifully diverse family of theropod dinosaurs that evolved to become hyper-specialised for semiaquatic lifestyles. My fascination with them stems from a number of reasons, such as their mysterious evolutionary history and exciting yet also troubled history of discovery, as well as their incredibly well-adapted biology for aquatic, yet also generalist niches. This underrated and poorly understood animal group truly deserves more attention in my opinion, and I am here to help that happen.


 * Goal itinerary:
 * Help get all spinosaurid articles to Good Article Status
 * Help get most spinosaurid articles to Featured Article Status
 * Help make Spinosauridae a Good or Featured Topic
 * Progress:
 * Spinosauridae Symbol_b_class.svg
 * Camarillasaurus Symbol_start_class.svg
 * Iberospinus Symbol_start_class.svg
 * Baryonychinae
 * Baryonyx Cscr-featured.png
 * Suchosaurus Symbol_start_class.svg
 * Ceratosuchopsini
 * Ceratosuchops Symbol_start_class.svg
 * Cristatusaurus Symbol_support_vote.svg
 * Riparovenator Symbol_start_class.svg
 * Suchomimus Symbol c class.svg (CURRENT FOCUS)
 * Spinosaurinae
 * Ichthyovenator Cscr-featured.png
 * Irritator Cscr-featured.png
 * Siamosaurus Cscr-featured.png
 * Vallibonavenatrix Symbol c class.svg
 * Spinosaurini
 * Oxalaia Cscr-featured.png
 * Sigilmassasaurus Symbol c class.svg
 * Spinosaurus Symbol_support_vote.svg

Sometimes I work on and create articles for the Simple English Wikipedia, you can check out My User Page there as well.

Articles I want to get to Good or Featured status sometime in the future:

Dinosaurs:
 * Torvosaurus
 * Dracoraptor
 * Pantydraco
 * Leaellynasaura
 * Demoiselle Crane
 * Araripe Manakin

Other animals:
 * Mawsonia
 * Onchopristis
 * Siberian Husky

Geology:
 * Alcântara Formation

People:
 * Alexander Kellner
 * Varavudh Suteethorn
 * Nigel Marven
 * Oesch's die Dritten

Images created
(My to do list)