Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sea Monsters

Name of project
You might want to provide a link to WikiProject Cryptozoology, for those people who come here expecting it to be about sea serpents or mermaids. Totnesmartin 20:38, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

News Letter
March 7 2007

Sea Monsters is formed. However due to a lack of members, it may close in the near future. We need more members!

March 8 2007

Sea Monsters now has enough members to continue.

Mosasaur Genera List WIP
User:Dracontes/Working_With

I could say more but the convoluted taxonomic history is to leave one speachless Dracontes 17:48, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Project scope
Hey Dinobird, Shouldn't this project be named "Prehistoric aquatic animals" instead ? I guess the name was inspired from the BBC "Sea Monsters" documentary by Tim Haines, but really it also evokes things such as the Kraken and the Loch Ness Monster, and also today's real monsters such as the Giant squid, the White Shark or theAnglerfish. Also, all prehistoric aquatic animals were not "monsters" (Ophthalmosaurus and Archelon were kind of cute). I guess, you do not want to restrict yourself to the creatures seen in the BBC documentary. But overall, good thinking, it's nice to have a project to deal with what is not covered by the WP Dinosaurs and Pterosaurs, i.e. plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, nothosaurs, prehistoric fish, Sea crocs, prehistoric cetaceans and so on... Good luck with the project! ArthurWeasley 18:13, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I made a template..
How's this? Feel free to play with it. cheers, Casliber | talk  |  contribs 10:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Animals project proposal
I think it's both a pity and somewhat illogical that we have no animal WikiProject despite the fact that there are over 20 projects that are basically its daughters. There are also other projects that could emerge from it in the future, such as one on animal behavior. The project would provide a central place for people from all animal projects to talk, a central set of guidelines for articles on animals and zoology, and an assessment system for articles related to animals. If you are interested in creating such a project please visit Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life to discuss. Richard001 08:46, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

The following projects would come under the parentage of this project:


 * WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
 * WikiProject Dinosaurs
 * WikiProject Pterosaurs
 * WikiProject Sea Monsters
 * WikiProject Arthropods
 * WikiProject Lepidoptera
 * WikiProject Phasmatodea
 * WikiProject Spiders
 * WikiProject Birds
 * WikiProject Cephalopods
 * WikiProject Fishes
 * WikiProject Aquarium Fishes
 * WikiProject Sharks
 * WikiProject Gastropods
 * WikiProject Mammals
 * WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials
 * WikiProject Cetaceans
 * WikiProject Primates
 * WikiProject Cats
 * WikiProject Dogs
 * WikiProject dog breeds
 * WikiProject horse breeds
 * WikiProject Animal rights

Proposed change to Naming conventions (fauna)
There is a current proposal to change an animal-related naming convention, which directly effects the the Manual of Style guideline, and the naming conventions policy. If you are interested, your input would be appreciated.  Justin  chat 06:32, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Mosasaurus Conybeare in Parkinson, 1822
Not sure if this project is still alive anymore... but someone might want to take a look at this rather randomly titled article that should have been redirected to mosasaurus a long time ago. Kare Kare (talk) 02:30, 6 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree the article should be either deleted or redirected to Mosasaurus. Mark t young (talk) 23:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * As there hasn't been any discussion on this article, I've merged the information into the Mosasaurus article, and set up a redirect. Mark t young (talk) 08:05, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

Can anyone help with thalattosaurs?
(This was originally posted to the Talk of WikiProject Dinosaurs: it may be of interest to you guys.) --

Since they aren't really dinosaurs, I'm not sure if I should ask here or at Amphibians and Reptiles. Currently we have a stub article of about six sentences at Thalattosauridae, a single sentence at Nectosaurus, and nothing at all on Thalattosaurus. I've started a Thalattosaurus article here; can anyone contribute? - Posted by Vultur 4 February 2008. - Sig added by Writtenonsand (talk) 05:24, 5 February 2008 (UTC) -- Re-posted by Writtenonsand (talk) 05:32, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Palaeontology
Hi everyone,

A new WikiProject, Palaeontology has been set up, and aims to be the umbrella project uniting Dinos, pterosaurs and monsters from the deep, alongside all the other palaeo article out there that aren't under a strict wikiproject. It was only set up today, so support, opinions and/or criticism is needed. I have come around to this idea, as there are a large number of articles out there in dire need of work, and this would be an excellent way to bring in some collaborative editing. Cheers guys and dolls, Mark t young (talk) 15:33, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Redirects on "G. species" disambiguation pages
Please see this discussion so that we can come to a conclusion about redirects used on "G. species" disambiguation pages.

Thank you, Neelix (talk) 22:39, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

Nenew
How would people like to reactivate the group, maybe a collaboration on Icthiosaus would be good. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 10:40, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Ichtyosaurs & Mosasaurs
I improved these lists.

Please change the name of this project
The name is informal and rather silly sounding. A formal scientific name is needed. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:07, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Not really much point in a name change as the project itself is rather extinct anymore, and covered quite well by WP:Paleontology.-- Kev min  § 13:14, 5 April 2012 (UTC)