User talk:Dinosven

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Chris Troutman ( talk ) 20:48, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

A page you started (Arminisaurus) has been reviewed!
Thanks for creating Arminisaurus, Dinosven!

Wikipedia editor Nick Moyes just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:

"Nice article. I've tweaked the lead, removing details of the holotype which are given later, and changing pliosaurid plesiosaurian to pliosaurid plesiosar, which I think helps non-technical users better grasp what it is."

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Nick Moyes (talk) 01:24, 28 October 2017 (UTC)

Pleiosaurs
Hi there, just notified me that you've been working on expanding plesiosaur articles, so I'd like to inform you that I and some other users are currently working on Elasmosaurus, with the hope of eventually getting it to WP:Featured Article status, and you're of course welcome to join in any capacity if you're interested. I've been working on the description section, but as you can see, the history and classification sections are sorely lacking... Also, I assume you had something to do with Sachs 2005 and 2013, so you might have a special interest in the article... FunkMonk (talk) 22:03, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi . Thanks for getting in touch and for inviting me to join the team. I'm happy that you and others are working on the Elasmosaurus article and indeed I published on that taxon previously. As I'm constantly involved in various projects I cannot spend as much time to do modifications on Wikipedia as I'd like to do, so I can probably not participate as a writer. That having said I'd be happy to help you out if there are any questions related to Elasmosaurus or other plesiosaurs. Greetings Sven.--Dinosven (talk) 19:51, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks, and totally understandable! In fact, I only realised after I wrote here that you were the author of the description I had been citing all along, hehe... And since the description of course only describes what is known of the animal, I was thinking whether you know a source that would give a general description of what elasmosaurs looked like (shape of the head, long neck, four flippers), since I'm not sure the average reader would get much understanding of this by reading a detailed anatomical description... FunkMonk (talk) 20:10, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi again . I think our paper in Fossil Focus could be helpful (https://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2015/fossil-focus-elasmosaurs/). If you need any of my other publications on elasmosaurs (a list is given on my website https://sites.google.com/view/sachs-pal), please send me an email. All the best, Sven--Dinosven (talk) 20:25, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's exactly what I was thinking of! Thanks, I'll certainly use that as reference, and I'll know where to ask for advice. FunkMonk (talk) 20:29, 30 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi again, Sven, the article is now nearing completion, but there is still some info about Elasmosaurus I can't find. Do you know of any reliable weight estimations? Also, estimations for the length of the neck, or alternate estimations of the entire length to the one already in the article? Thanks. FunkMonk (talk) 07:19, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi . Sorry for my late reply, but it last weeks have been very busy and no time for Wikipedia. I'm not aware of any weight estimations and the neck versus body length should be given in Everhart's book Oceans of Kansas. BTW, I just recently published a paper on fragmentary elasmosaurid material from northern Germany that may derive from Elasmosaurus as well. At least I discuss this option. The title is: "Reste eines Elasmosauriers aus der Oberkreide von Schleswig-Holstein in der Sammlung des Naturkunde-Museums Bielefeld" and you can download a pdf here: https://sites.google.com/view/sachs-pal/publications--Dinosven (talk) 16:06, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No problem, I'll ping and, who may also want to see that information! FunkMonk (talk) 17:37, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh, that's really interesting. Lythronaxargestes (talk &#124; contribs) 17:57, 5 December 2017 (UTC)