User talk:Atheistbabe

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Hi, A-babe, it's nice to see someone new adding content! Listen, I saw where you've been filling in that table on the prehistoric animals that lived during whatever age of the Cretaceous that was, but I feel like I should warn you that those half-filled tables are probably going to end up deleted. I say this with some embarrassment as I'm the guy who started them! It's really cool that you're helping out with them, but the idea of listing and describing every kind of animal that lived at every stage in the rock record is really impractical and has not been supported by other editors. Those tables have lain mostly incomplete with no meaningful contributions for 5-6 years and it doesn't look like even with your help that they'll become useful.

Don't worry, I'm not going to delete those edits of yours now, I think you deserve to have your contributions seen for a while, but they will probably end up deleted eventually so I'd advise making different kinds of contributions that have better staying power. One kind of contribution like that is to write a short article for Wikipedia's DYK program. Y'know, those articles linked in the little factoids on the main page. There's a high reward-to-effort ratio there. A half page article on any halfway interesting subject can net 3,000-5,000 views easy when it makes it to the main page. Well, nice talking to you! Happy editing! Abyssal (talk) 13:23, 28 June 2013 (UTC)