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DYK for Fish egg fossil
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Reptile egg fossil
The DYK project (nominate) 00:04, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Dinosaur egg
The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Egg paleopathology
The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

DYK for Egg taphonomy
The DYK project (nominate) 00:05, 9 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!
Hello, Abyssal;

Thank you for the barnstar! J. Spencer (talk) 20:16, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Meade Layne


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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
Hi, and thanks for your opinion on a detail of the restoration. The issue for me about that fact is that it is unbalanced - why do we have one minor fact (a colour change) but no major facts (the materials used, the reconstruction approach, main items replaced, ...). I'd prefer simply to do without the minor fact, however 'interesting', but what we should do is put in some of the bigger stuff and consider if the tidbit is worth retaining. It can't stay as it is. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:25, 6 December 2013 (UTC)


 * Further to that, I've checked the citation, and Megatherium is not even mentioned, let alone its colour, so "not in citation given" -- removed as WP:OR. I'll attempt some new text which is actually based on the citation now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:34, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Hi
I deleted most of your subpages using a script. Are you looking to delete all of them eventually? Let me know and I can just do that without waiting for more deletion templates. — Soap — 03:45, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Stegosaur timeline
Hi, I noticed you recently inserted what's apparently to be a timeline of species descriptions to the article Stegosauria. I don't know if timelines such as these are common in dinosaur/paleontology articles (more often one sees geological timelines), but it seems to be a bit out of place and jarring, especially with the extra wide formatting extending past the right margin. It also has no introduction or context, forcing the reader to guess what the graph represents. In my opinion the graph is interesting supplemental information, from a history of paleontology perspective, but doesn't say much about the taxa themselves (their biology, distribution, etc), and would be better placed in a separate article, perhaps in a vertical format such that most browsers and mobile devices can easily view it. If you have added or plan on adding more of these charts to dinosaur articles, you might want to seek consensus on style, formatting, and usage first. --Animalparty-- (talk) 04:02, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

db-user
Please learn to use db-user to get rid of your user pages. It saves us poor, overworked admins a couple of clicks per page. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 18:49, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

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Wikidata
Hi Abyssal! I was wondering if you could help me with a couple of things for Wikidata. I noticed that you edit a lot of fossils and stratigraphic units, and we are currently trying to make that connection over at Wikidata. The advantages of the data is that we can do a lot of checks for errors and can generate infoboxes and lists for fossils and stratigraphic units. This leaves more time to work on the text and other things. Here is an example. You recently worked on Hell Creek Formation. On Wikidata most of the infobox information is already stored: d:Q917642. In the future this infobox will be included in all language Wikis, so one change you make will benefit all languages. One of the fossils from that formation is Pachycephalosaurus, but there is no quick way to find out in which stratigraphic units this dinosaur was found. What do you think makes more sense: Adding the fossils to the stratigraphic units, or the stratigraphic units to the fossils? Or asked differently: would you rather have those statements in d:Q917642 or d:Q14455? Queries for information will work both ways, so it is really more a question of style. Thanks for your help! --Tobias1984 (talk) 13:09, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I honestly don't know whether fossils should be listed under the formation or formation under the fossils since the information doesn't really seem more or less relevant to either concept. Is there anyway to list it under both simultaneously? I know so little about Wikidata that I'm not sure what how to make a helpful suggestion. I am really excited about the concept, though.Abyssal (talk) 18:21, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Forgot to say that I'm watching your page :). The statement (fossil in unit, or, unit in fossil) will be listed in only one item, but in a few months we will be able to generate dynamic lists that show either information (where the fossil is found, or, which fossils does a unit have). We will also be able to generate lists like "Fossils from Utah", or "Pachycephalosauruses found in North America that are on display in the Smithsonian museum". - I will try to discuss the details a little more on Wikidata and will inform the WikiProject Paleontology what we decided. I'm sure it doesn't make that much of a difference, and if we decide to change it, bots can move the information pretty quickly. --Tobias1984 (talk) 21:02, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Amyzon commune listed at Redirects for discussion
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Dinosaur strat lists listed at Redirects for discussion
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Deletion of portal subpages
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Concerns About Your Fossil Timelines
I'd like to call to your attention that some of the data in the timelines you've been putting in are incorrect, either in the form of incorrect taxa, or wrong fossil ranges.--Mr Fink (talk) 16:27, 19 March 2014 (UTC)

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Category:Formations with X dinosaur genera
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Nomination of Table of years in paleontology for deletion
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