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Quick note
Thanks for your contributions. An important note: NEVER link to PDFs of journal articles hosted on Discord, like the one I removed here. This is against Wikipedia policy (WP:COPYLINK) because it opens us up to legal problems. Thanks! Ovinus (talk) 20:06, 19 September 2022 (UTC)

Images of Valentine type location?
Hi,

I have many images of the "Valentine" outcrop in Rush County, Kansas, but for this page I would prefer to use an image from the type location; anywhere around the Railway Quarries, Cherry County, Nebraska, should do.

You wouldn't happen to have any such image?

IveGoneAway (talk) 16:27, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Sorry I don't really have any images, all images I add to a page when I edit it simply is picked out from Wikimedia so if there aren't any there then I can't provide one either. Olmagon (talk) 16:33, 24 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I was just taking a chance you were a local. IveGoneAway (talk) 17:00, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

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Wikipedia and copyright
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Your draft article, Draft:Eromangateuthis


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Copying licensed material requires attribution
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I honestly don't entirely understand what that means. I can tell it's something about copyright but not exactly what it is I did wrong. I mean I cited the source and reworded everything I could so it wouldn't be a direct copy. Olmagon (talk) 00:33, 10 February 2023 (UTC)


 * There was actually enough overlap that a bot reported it as a potential copyright violation. The source document is released under a CC-by 4.0 license, which means it's okay to copy, but you have to provide attribution. I added a template to indicate that the content was in part copied from that source and to show that it's compatibly licensed.  — Diannaa (talk) 01:12, 10 February 2023 (UTC)

Paraná Formation
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 * Yeah I just went to eat lunch, I plan to continue working on it in a while. Olmagon (talk) 12:27, 21 May 2023 (UTC)

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Haifanggou/Jiulongshan Formation
Hi, thanks for you work on improving paleobiota lists. I recently noticed your work on the Haifanggou Formation article. this checklist from 2021 suggests that at least 760 insects have been described from the formation. Paleoentomology is a notoriously difficult journal to actually get access to, so if you wanted the paper it would probably be best to email the authors to ask for it. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:42, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The book Rhythms of Insect Evolution: Evidence from the Jurassic and Cretaceous in Northern China Also provides a comprehensive listing of insects from the formation up until 2019, and is readily accessible via the Wikipedia library. Hemiauchenia (talk) 00:45, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

Edit to Template:Taxonomy/Ornithurae/skip
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DYK for Asiavorator
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DYK for Teratoscincus roborowskii
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DYK for Triassosculda
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Cladogram repetition
Did you know you can put the cladogram into a template, then put the template on the various pages. Then you'd only have to change the cladogram once and it would be effectively changed on all of the pages at once. Just a thought... - UtherSRG (talk) 18:42, 31 January 2024 (UTC)


 * I actually didn't know that, useful thought though. Olmagon (talk) 18:43, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

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