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I'm reverting you here for removing a reliable source and replacing it with one that doesn't meet our criteria at WP:RS and WP:VERIFY. Jenny Hill is not a source we should be using. Dougweller (talk) 17:17, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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Dilophosaurus
Hello, Evangelos;

Thank you for stopping by! I will take a close look at Dilophosaurus over the weekend. Incidentally, User:Dinoguy2 (aka MMartyniuk) is the resident theropod expert, but I will certainly do what I can! J. Spencer (talk) 01:39, 14 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I've made one pass, and I'll make a second pass tomorrow. I've mostly consolidated statements and added formatting, so far. J. Spencer (talk) 01:41, 17 March 2013 (UTC)


 * I have noticed that occasionally the added material might be a bit too close to the text of the original sources, so you might want to watch out for that. J. Spencer (talk) 03:46, 18 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Good catch. I will be more careful with paraphrasing from these sources.  Thank you.Evangelos Giakoumatos (talk) 03:58, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Seasonal suicide
Hi, just saw you discussion on Doc James page about the misconception of suicide increasing in winter. Coincidentally I just heard or read a report about how Greenland has one of the highest suicide rates. I assumed they would be higher in winter because of the practically continuous darkness. The article mentioned that suicides were highest in summer. My guess is that in the winter if someone is depressed they simply sleep or go into vegetative state and have less willpower to take the action of suicide. In the summer with hotter weather and constant light it is harder to escape the demons in one's mind and harder to sleep so already being agitated and away, it is a much smaller step to just put an end to it all. Another example of what I thought was common knowledge was backwards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sthubbar (talk • contribs) 00:25, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Sthubbar, I have seen the same misconception repeated in movies and in the media. It follows that people that are estranged from their families experience the loss more vividly during holidays.  I work with persons diagnosed with mental illness and some of the more brutal suicides I have seen over the years were close to the holidays and often involved rejection by parents and children, which served as an antecedent to the suicide.  Despite this, the data is clear, even when examining smaller sample sets, that majority of suicides (i.e. suicide attempts that are fatal) do not occur during the winter holiday season and actually peak during spring and early summer.  Thank you for your feedback.  Your comments about winter and depression, hotter weather, and insomnia certainly make sense to me and are shared by other mental health professionals.Evangelos Giakoumatos (talk) 14:08, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Dino star

 * You're making good progress on the dinosaurs, I think it won't be long before you could nominate one of the longer articles for "Good Article". In that case, just remember that the intro should be a summary of the entire article, the intros are on the short side at present. FunkMonk (talk) 15:54, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

dinosaur diagnosis
Hey Evangelos Giakoumatos, thank you for all your good work! I wonder if we should add complete diagnoses to every dinosaur article. When I write dinosaur articles, I only choose two or three examples for autapomorphies, and explain them, so that people can understand. There are several points: First, we write an encyclopedia. We invest much energy in the readability and comprehensibility of dinosaur articles while presenting a broad covering of important information. These diagnoses don't fit into the articles that contain only the very necessary technical terms. You need to be a paleontologist to fully understand what the single autapomorphies mean, and you have to be an expert of that certain group to find it interesting. Second, autapomorphies are very unstable. After a few years, much of the dedicated autapomorphies will have been described in other, related taxa, making them synapomorphies of much more inclusive groups. Autapomorphies age very fast. That is the reason why we have so many Nomina dubia. In your diagnoses sections, you list every autapomorphy that has been noted by distinct paleontologists (e.g., Herrerasaurus). Actually, most of these former autapomorphies are not autapomorphies of that taxon any longer, but synapomorphies of Herrerasauridae or something else. Third, autapomorphies are very interpretive. If two different paleontologists work on the same material, you will get three different diagnoses.

There are problems related to this kind of diagnoses sections. Even the Paleobiology Database, which contains much information about single genera, does not contain diagnoses. I would prefer to keep the articles as short, as pregnant, as comprehensive, and as readable as possible. What do you think? Sorry for this long text, but this is something I want to talk about. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 08:19, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, lets discuss. I will send you an e-mail Jens.

Griebeler et al.
Hi,

thanks for adding the new study. However, in the case of Plateosaurus, your edit misrepresented the full study by selecting only one out of many cases, a case that was NOT specifically selected by the authors as "best case". You should have either added the full range, or the two best cases. As is, your edit cannot be retained. If I find time I will add it back in, and amend it so it does full justice to the data my colleagues found.

Now I need to check the other articles, too. HMallison (talk) 09:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Hi,


 * I mean that the table in G. et al. presents TWO most likely cases for Plateosaurus. These bracket a range. Citing only ONE but not saying that it is only one out of a bracketed range is what I didn't like. What you should do is give the full range of results, or you can use the text. That is, after all, what G. et al. decided to make of their data. :D All the rest of your edit was fine!
 * by the way, in the Plateosaurus article please note that the references are listed in the references section, i.e. the text is entered not in the main text. I can do that for you :) HMallison (talk) 01:54, 17 July 2013 (UTC)

Cryolophosaurus
Hi Evangelos. I couldn't help but notice that a little while ago you expanded the Paleoecology section in Cryolophosaurus. Do you happen to have the refs for the second section still, specifically the sentence about petrified wood? If you do could you please inform me or add it? Many thanks. Iainstein (talk) 14:48, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

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