User talk:Abyssal/Archive 7

Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation‎

Apologies for reverting your initial edit there. - The Bushranger (talk) 08:18, 23 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back

Cheers for the warm return! I've now finally got a chance to spend some time on wiki, so I thought I'd return. The thalattosuchians are biting quite well thanks! Got a couple of ZJLS papers out, which is always nice! Best, Mark t young (talk) 13:17, 3 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Lists

Hi Abyssal. I have dramatically changed your article "List of prehistoric chitons", changing the format of the list from a table to a simple list of items.

I did that because all the columns in the table were empty of information (except the name of the chiton).

Wikipedia is not a place for incomplete articles so, if you are writing an article and you want to save it in the Wikipedia server, please create that in a workpage, a subpage or practice your assays in the sandbox. Release the articles only if you think the article will appear as complete for a Wikipedia user or, at least, even if you want to add more information, leave the article without blank spaces or fields to fill, and continue your work in the spaces designed for that, mentioned before.

Thank you for your work.

Best. Flakinho (talk) 01:12, 8 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Abundance

Thanks! I'd support changing abundance to material, or maybe something like number of specimens (less technical?). I agree there are relatively few papers listing relative abundance and therefore it will always be incomplete, and likely go out of date quickly. MMartyniuk (talk) 04:54, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A bit, at least in reference to fossil specimens it's not a term you usually see in popular literature. But I wouldn't have a problem with it either way. MMartyniuk (talk) 07:28, 4 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The graph project

Hi there - Sorry to bother you...I noticed that you used to be interested in the Wikireason project. I wanted to introduce you to a similar project, thegraph.org, which was presented at a number of Wikipedia-related conferences this year (it was launched by a bunch of Wikipedians late last year). Maybe this will interest you... --Vptes (talk) 19:22, 6 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks!

Thanks for the Barnstar! My first outside acknowledgment of my contributions to Wiki will not be forgotten!Qfl247 (talk) 19:37, 20 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of List of people said to be angels

The article List of people said to be angels has been proposed for deletion because under Wikipedia policy, all biographies of living persons created after March 18, 2010, must have at least one source that directly supports material in the article.

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Articles for deletion nomination of List of people said to be angels

I have nominated List of people said to be angels, an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of people said to be angels. Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

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just so you know, rather than deleting this article, I've userfied it at User:Abyssal/Angel In the current shape it could have been deleted, but I think you could salvage it... but make sure you have specific references and name it something along the lines of List of Angels according to the UAS or something. That should overcome most of the objections to the vagueness and inclusion criteria.---Balloonman ^{NO! I'm Spartacus!} 06:35, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Angel article

I think you could make something quite decent out of this, so don't give up hope yet :) The suggestion at AFD about adding information about LDS views on who is an angel was interesting, that's an alternative to making it specific to one church. Best of wishes with it! TheGrappler (talk) 10:59, 15 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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Micro-Yix

Interesting! Just M. gui or M. zhaoianus too? This looks persistent in the "early days" of Microraptor. It's on DinoData, for example, but the listed cite only says it was found near Yixian city, and doesn't list the formation. I remember doing a drawing of Yixian critters around 2003 that included Micro. I guess the fact that feathered dino != Yixian only entered the mass consciousness fairly recently ;) MMartyniuk (talk) 02:22, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, and while I'm at it, does he list any M. gui specimens from Jiufotang, or is the whole shebang labelled Yixian? I'm wondering if this is actually referring to some of the undescribed Yixian microraptorians, which could really be anything. MMartyniuk (talk) 02:29, 30 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Scale chart

Hey Abyssal, what do you like better about the old one? Always room for improvement. MMartyniuk (talk) 01:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Do you really like them all packed together? I figured this way it was easier to see more of the individual dinosaurs. As for the pose looking unnatural, I'm not sure why... maybe it's really jarring to see a giant theropod not running at full tilt? MMartyniuk (talk) 02:46, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Endocranium, endocast

Hi! Thanks for your addition to the endocranium article! I'm just wondering if your contribution should have it's own article rather than being part of the endocranium article? The majority of links to the article is actually redirects via "endocast" and "cranial endocast". I haven't come across "endocranium" being used as as synonym for "endocast". If you have a reference, could you ad it? Petter Bøckman (talk) 12:52, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See if you like the new endocast article. I have redirected the link pages. Petter Bøckman (talk) 21:22, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Tooth

Could you give the link? Tbhotch^Talk ^C. 23:11, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Really, becuase i see no Supports oppose neutral votes for NEITHER user, including you. Tbhotch^Talk ^C. 23:16, 2 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Astronomical bodies in pseudoscience and the paranormal

I thought you should know that User talk:Twinsday tagged this page for deletion. Please note that I didn't tag it, but I thought that this list was very interesting and hope that it can be saved. I then noticed that you weren’t notified in order to address the issues User talk:Twinsday listed for deletion.--ARTEST4ECHO ^talk 16:21, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The article Astronomical bodies in pseudoscience and the paranormal has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

not notable subject, depends mostly on one source, synthesis

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Astronomical bodies in..

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Ceratopsian hands

I'm basing the idea on Fujiwara, S.-I. (2009), A Reevaluation of the manus structure in Triceratops (Ceratopsia: Ceratopsidae). and Senter, P. (2007), Analysis of forelimb function in basal ceratopsians and some discussion on the Psittacosaurus page, but if I've misunderstood the situation please do notify me. Albertonykus (talk) 08:28, 24 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Cryptozoology

Hi! The above article needs some work; we are trying to increase its quality to raise awareness of the topic in wikipedia. If you can help that would be great!--Gniniv (talk) 06:08, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Gorgonocephalus

The article Gorgonocephalus has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

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Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing {{dated prod}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Mokele (talk) 18:42, 2 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ornithomimosaur scale

Very tempting... but the question is, to Deinocheirus or not to Deinocheirus? MMartyniuk (talk) 03:44, 14 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alert!

Congratulations! Abyssal (talk) 15:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A bit late (haven't been checking messages on wikipedia for a while), but thanks. NobuTamura (talk) 15:35, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar!

Hey Abyssal, thank you for the Barnstar! :) It's greatly appreciated! Steveoc 86 (talk) 23:34, 27 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks...You are the first but to be fair I don't do that much around here these days. Steveoc 86 (talk) 21:49, 28 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sure! I'll put it at {{oobox}}. Got a couple questions for you--

The basal root taxon for {{automatic taxobox}} is Life; the one for {{ichnobox}} is Ichnos. Should the one for {{oobox}} be Eggshells, or is there a better word? Edit: Veterovata, perhaps?

*Do you have some sample classifications I can test this with? Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:17, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Found some samples. Never mind that question. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 19:43, 31 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Restore

Done, but with all due respect, it was nothing but a taxobox. Asking "please" in the future would be of tremendous help as well. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:23, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, gotcha. Sorry for the inconvenience. It was bot-tagged for being too short and I simply deleted it based on the lack of content. Should have checked your edit history first. --PMDrive1061 (talk) 17:30, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No prob. :) Signing off for now. Take care and thanks for setting me straight.

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It should be working now. You had linked the Dendroolithidae to the wrong parent. I've corrected that and normalized a few other things, such as making the taxa extinct, adding the oomagnorder, and cleaning up the format of {{Taxonomy/Dinosauroid-Spherulitic}}. Also-- was {{Taxonomy/Spherulitic}} created in error? Let me know if you have other issues! Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 20:27, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Try adding the |display parents=2 parameter. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 21:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I was actually using the {{para}} template to display the code you needed to add to the oobox. So, assuming you don't have any other parameters in the oobox, it will look like this:

{{oobox
|display parents = 2
}}

Hope that helps. There are lots of other parameters that can be added to it, such as |authority= and |fossil range=. I've also added {{underconstruction}} for you to that page so that it doesn't get deleted again prematurely. Also-- if you'd like to test an ichnobox in a sandbox, you'd add the |taxon= parameter-- like so:

{{oobox
|taxon = Dendroolithus
}}

You can use as many parameters as you need to, just like in the taxobox. The automated taxonomy generation just makes it much more compact and updates the taxonomies across all articles at the same time. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 22:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops! Glad you spoke up again; I'd made the changes to {{Oobox}} but I'd used "Preview Changes" and forgot to save them. It should be working now. Thanks for your persistance! You've helped debug a template! Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 23:36, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, thanks for the barnstar! I hope you continue using the automatic taxobox family templates

I'm sure eventually you'll master the art, too. Bob the Wikipedian ^{(talk • contribs)} 00:59, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]