User talk:Killdevil

Hello, folks. Not much here at the moment.

Killdevil 15:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

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I have noticed the great contribution you've been making to the Dinosaur article! Well done! But on a down side, there is something I was meaning to talk to you about. The dinosaur article is a featured article, & we want it to be kept spotless. However, the introduction of external links in the text is not of featured article quality. We would like everyone on the Dinosaur article to put all external links as footnotes. To see how to do this, see my extra long post on this page; User_talk:WAS_4.250. Follow one of my links towards the bottom which will show how to do this. It's quite easy & people will marvel at the amount of knowledge you have at doing footnotes. Plus it will keep the article tidy & formal. Further more, as you'll probably see by looking at Was's talk page, I get pretty crazy & mad when someone stuffs up the dinosaur article, which I've spent a long time working on. Thanks for listening.... Spawn Man 01:36, 9 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Well done for at least giving the footnote thing a go. I didn't get it the first thousand times I tried it. Well done! I just tydied it up for you so it was perfect. Thanks, If everyone did that, there would be a lot more time to relax.... Spawn Man 01:54, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Dinosaur
Thank you, I finished up tonight. I was bold see the talk page. I also added some links to the See also I would appreciate if they stay. Hopefully that will defuse any religious issues. -- SusanLarson (User Talk, New talk, Contribs) 07:32, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

TGV
I know my wording about the 1.5 kV lines around Paris was a bit jumbled; what I'm trying to say is that it's the lines electrified at 1.5 kV which are common around Paris, rather than lignes classiques, which are all over the country (I'm pretty sure). Willkm 00:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, good wording. I've removed the middle bit because I think it's clearer without it. Willkm 00:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

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WikiProject Dinosaurs
Hi, I got the Dinosaur article to the main page, & as a result, watch who edits it closely. Seeing you have a keen interest in dinosaurs, due to your extensive edits to the dinosaur article, I'd like to suggest that you join WikiProject Dinosaurs, as we have few members & even fewer specialists. We'd love for you to join. If you decide to do so, enter your name on our participants list & slap one of those dinosaur user boxes on your user page. Thanks, Spawn Man 06:58, 4 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Welcome to the project, glad to have you on board.... I'm the main co-ordinator, so contact me (or someone else....but mainly me.... muahahaaaaaaaa!) if you have any questions. Right now we're trying to write a stub for every single damn dinosaur, even if it's a crappy stub. Thanks, Spawn Man 02:18, 9 March 2006 (UTC).

New Task bar
I've successfully created an open list of tasks on the WikiProject Dinosaurs main page for those who would actually like to know what to do with their time on the project. Add tasks as you wish, no too long though! Add your name to tasks you wish to be part of & that's as complicated as it gets... Thanks, Spawn Man 23:29, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to the WP Dinos project
Hi Killdevil, Thanks for recently joining the WP Dinosaur project. As you have already commented, it's a huge project. I know you want to start with 20 most popular new dinosaur pages... The problem is that there are 1,086 dinosaurs listed on the list of dinosaurs page, but only a few of the most popular (T-Rex, etc) have actually been created. I've been occupied the past few days creating stub articles for hundreds of dinosaurs, but they *all* need expanding. A few volunteers have been able to add a couple of additional pages, but there are still 500 or more dead/red links. ANYwhere you start will be a big help. You could even add the {WikiProject Dinosaurs} tag to the talk pages of every created article (I've only done that to the dinosaurs under letter A; B-Z are still missing it), or expand on existing articles (like adding references, fleshing out the paragraphs (or in many cases, solitary sentences), adding the taxobox that needs to be added to almost every page, or work on the redirects. All of the dinosaurs pages, excluding two or three, need to have the main article under the genus, not the species. Or you could help categorize. Currently, many articles are still missing the categories that we determined would be needed for every dino article: when (T/J/K) it lived, and what (eg, Theropod) it was. I've only finished letter A, and the rest of the alphabet is left. That's just a brief list of the things that we've been trying to work on. Your additions, whatever you decide to do, will be a huge help. Thanks again,--Firsfron 02:54, 10 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for being thoughrough Firsfron, I welcomed him above... I've created a list of 20 dinosaurs, as you'll see on the project page. I've added a comment there & on the project page. These should be the project's main concern & should not be removed until the get featured (as I state on the note). I've actually completed putting the {WikiProject Dinosaurs} tag on the letters :x, z, u, w, v, y, & q. I also started on the main dinosaurs & on a. Firsfron is right in saying that all articles should be equal in our efforts, but you are right in a way too. How is the project to be taken seriously if the top twenty dinosaurs aren't even up to featured status? Spawn Man 09:36, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

Longest Dinosaur was Seismosaurus
Hello,

Please look into the facts before recorrecting what others have done. Supersaurus, which quite possibly might simply be a very long Diplodocus, is not the longest dinosaur on record. That record goes to Seismosaurus: www.dinosauricon.com, www.dinodata.net

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WikiProject Dinosaurs
Hi Killdevil!

There's currently less than 100 dinosaurs left on the Missing dinosaur page. We've come a long way! I was thinking that since there's just under 100 dinosaurs left, and since there are 25 of us signed on for the project, if we each wrote about four articles, we'd be done! Well, not "done", obviously, as many of the articles are in need of expansion. But then we could focus on expansion and other things.

You could take, say, Pekinosaurus, Pellegrinisaurus, Penelopognathus, and Phuwiangosaurus.

It's just an idea, of course, and you're of course not obligated and can do whatever you like; I just figured I'd mention the idea, and see if you were interested. No harm, right?

Take care, --Firsfron 06:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC) :)

Dinosaur edit
It's just a regular (albeit scholarly) compound noun, like "blueberry". --MarkSweep (call me collect) 07:04, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

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Hi! I'm just reminding everyone about my quiz section, the Hardest Questions In The World Section. Although many players are already taking part, the more people playing, the more exciting it becomes. Drop by the following link to play... See this link to take part in the competition! Thanks, Spawn Man 01:46, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Dino's epistemlogy
Hi! Just to explain my position. For instance, you surely will say smth like "I believe in the Bible", since "believe" is the right word here, in such a context. But, would you say "I believe in the Pithagora's theorem"?. I don't think so. You would say smth like "The Pithagora's theorem is right, on the basis of the given proofs".

Now, i do not insist that my change was the best possible one, but writing "Scientist believe that..." is simply not an honest way to present the scientists view. Of course, and you're right: we are not arguing here that such "scientific thruth" will never change, and maybe that one day the science will meet the religious positions. But simply a science position is not an argument of "believing". Ciao, and forgive my poor english. --Picone 15:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi Killdevil! thanks a lot for "your solution" to this small point: indeed, I think that now the point is made very clear for the reader. talk to you next time, --Picone 21:58, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

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Re-recording Dinosaur article
Hi Killdevil!

Thanks for suggesting a new recording. I've just been thinking about returning to some of those recordings I did last year. Now I have a little more time, I'll get onto it. Best Mrdallaway 09:02, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah right. 18 months later ... Just been looking at the new improved dino article. Now I'm getting tempted, inexplicably. I only have brief interludes of time for recording, but I'll get started right away. It's mainly the pronunciation checking that takes the time. I'll keep ya posted. Have an excellent day. Mrdallaway (talk) 13:38, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

'Dinosaur' article
I think we've got somewhere near it now - do you? Well done and cheers - Ballista 22:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Talk page spamming for AfD
Your talk page spamming the AfD for the dinosaur article is inappropriate. Please stop now.--Kchase T 04:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I wasn't aware that leaving messages on talk pages re: an AfD wasn't allowable. Could you clarify what, if any, activities ARE appropriate in support of a particular position on an AFD? I mostly stick to article edits, and must confess that I'm not especially aware of the nuances of this sort of Wikipedia politicking. Thanks, Killdevil 04:09, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I hate it when anyone says "just trust me", but unfortunately I can't find something more explicit than what's at Spam. In any case, lots of talk page messages to attempt to get people to "vote" one way or another distorts the normal Wikipedia process of gaining consensus, which isn't a process of campaigning and voting, but of those who notice a discussion (perhaps by the AFD notice on the page) going to take part in it. I'll see if I can find a more satisfying process or policy page. In any event, I'm not angry. I understand you weren't aware of the process. I just wanted to get you to stop, and you've done that. Thanks. As you've now noticed my talk page message, you can just reply here.--Kchase T 04:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I have to step out for a minute. I'll get back to you later with more details. Thanks, again.--Kchase T 04:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, the best guide I can find is at Deletion_policy. That's more about meatpuppets (people who register an account just to "vote" to keep or delete an article they read about on a website somewhere else. Anyway, now you'll know for next time.--Kchase T 05:12, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. Cheers, Killdevil 05:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Cheers.--Kchase T 05:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Religious perspectives on dinosaurs
What a fascinating page - content need a lot of work though. Hope to add material soon. SmithBlue 15:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I notice that apparently misplaced effort on other articles as well - Serbophobia is the best example. Spose it is so much more excitingfighting for something without even having to actually do any editing at all. i'm also thinking that a single religions views are going to change over time. SmithBlue 23:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi Killdevil - your creation Religious perspectives on dinosaurs-(Rpod)is slowly growing. There is one editor who feels that "Religious perspectives on dinosaurs" do not exist as "most Christian believe in Science and Evolution". I have tried discussing the posssibility of documenting the beliefs of people but do not seem able to get through. If you feel some curiosity about whats happening over there at Rpod please drop in - and maybe your Dinosaur background might impress the editor mentioned above enough for them to listen to you. He today mentioned a RfD (request for deletion) - if that happened you know where all the religious people are going to end up, dont you.(Please read this as humour, not a threat from me - I will do all I can to keep Rpod going)

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 * I'm not really sure what you're referring to in the message you left on my talk page. I'm not new to Wikipedia -- I've been a constructive editor and community member here since sometime in 2005, and I don't run around deleting things willy-nilly... Can you clarify? Killdevil 01:55, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Double-checking to make sure I'm not in error. Yep here it is - you deleted all of the documentation from this template. &mdash;  SMcCandlish &#91;talk&#93; &#91;contrib&#93; ツ 07:36, 12 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Oh, ok. You're right.  That template was added to article talk on the Dinosaur page, which I help maintain.  I was archiving discussions on that talk page, and I suppose I must have clicked through to the template page somehow. Killdevil 00:45, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Dinosaur
Hello Killdevil,

The difference between "one group" and "one significant" is subtle I admit but it saying "significant" implies nothing about "insignificant" groups. Did some of those survive? Obviously not.

I'll admit my palaeontological background is a PhD ammonites not dinosaurs, but if a single lineage of ammonite survived, I would write "Only a single group (or clade) of ammonites survived the K/T boundary" or works to that effect. Saying "significant" is non-scientific: how do you measure it? Hominidae are insignificant in terms of taxonomic diversity, but significant in other ways. What makes Aves more significant than any other dinosaur clades?

I'm sure style comes into use of colon versus semi-colon. My feeling is that the one fragment in the sentence in question follows directly from the other, rather than resides as a follow-up point.

Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 16:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Your edit looks fine to me. Thanks! Neale Neale Monks 22:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

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