User talk:Dracontes

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68.81.231.127 03:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ampelosaurus

Good work on Ampelosaurus. Aggressive editing indeed, but you seem to have arrived at a good result. Have you checked out the dinosaur wikiproject? Link on my user page if you're interested. Soo 17:49, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, I do hope so. The aggressiveness of the editing may be explained by my m.o.: I prepare my article stubs at home by pouring over the pertinent scientific articles and then single out the main points. That's why my contributions tend to be very formulaic. So when I found you've beaten me to it I may've gotten a bit aggravated since I had prepared the article before Christmas.

Actually if you look closely at the participant list, you'll notice I've already added myself to it besides adding a host of new genera to the missing list. Good enough? Dracontes 18:09, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Good enough :). You can just indicate on here if you want to reserve a page, so we don't clash. That's probably the easiest way to avoid stepping on each others toes. By the way, it's easier if you reply on my talk page rather than your own, as then I get told about it. Ta! Soo 20:52, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

I guess stubborness comes with the package as I'd rather keep a discussion in one place ;-) Anyway, I'll go over my files and make a list of the genera for which I have the original description papers, though I'll only reserve those that I've prepared a stub for. But don't worry too much about stepping on each others' toes. That, I think, is run-of-the-mill here. Dracontes 09:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

You guys have both been doing great work. Is there a page like the one for missing dinosaurs that's just a list of all genera (maybe a "completed" page)? Also, many of the new pages have been using class Archosauria. Check out List of dinosaur classifications for the current standardized ranking system. There's still some discussion on my talk page over whether to use Reptilia or Sauropsida, but Archosauria has been pretty much ruled out.Dinoguy2 21:43, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Thanks on my part, Matt :-) You can find that list at List of dinosaurs. I've taken the stance of minding reviews once the missing list at least has been cleared, so I'm just copy/pasting the taxoboxes I find for relatives of the genera I create stubs for and leaving it at that. Dracontes 09:59, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

The taxobox disclaimer

Before anyone starts fretting about it let me just state that it's an attempt at humour pilfered from Dinoguy2 and completed using Mikko Haaramo's Phylogeny archive and Wikipedia's pertinent entries. Hopefully it will make people think before going gung-ho over ranking every taxon. As the extension of the taxobox will certainly develop in me a feeling of chagrin it will be one more reason for me to fill up the contributions section. Dracontes 12:51, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Artwork

I checked out your artwork on the Dinosauricon and may I say, it's really excellent. One thing taht Wikipedia lacks as a whole (and especially on the dinosaur articles) is pictures, as they are so hard to obtain under a free license. Have you considered releasing some of your articles under the GFDL or similar? That way we could put them on Wikipedia Commons and significantly enhance the dinosaur articles on several different-language Wikipedias all at once. That would be really awesome, so it would be great if you would contemplate it. Soo 17:29, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Fantastic! Can't wait to see what you come up with. Soo 16:41, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

update for you

I ran across your user page while cleaning up links following a merger/re-write.

• body cavity
  • was coelom, pseudocoel, accoelomate (and a bunch of variations of those words)

I just wanted to let you know, because I'm wary of editing people's user pages. --TheLimbicOne(talk) 04:01, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

My Attempt:

Since Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs is becoming a bit dormant of late, I've decided to get it reactivated. I've started putting the following templates all over the show, & I'd appreciate if someone would try putting them on too. Remember, they only go on Dinosaur orientated artcle's TALK pages. Not the articles themselves.

So, finally, while I work on the project with a designer, in order to get more people, thus more pages, I would appreciate if you didn't move or shift (or stuff up for that matter) any of the work I'll be doing, like adding templates, protocols to the project page, etc etc. I'm hoping to get it up to the standard of The military history project. So, tell your friends to join up, or spam unknowing people & continue to do great articles. I no time, we'll have an awesome, professional project page! Spawn Man 03:50, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

New improvement

As per step three (on the dinosaur project talk page), I promised to ask a general consensus about any new improvements made. So, I'd like everyone to give comments on the new talk page banner:

What does everyone think of it? It's meant to be placed on the talk page of dinosaur related articles, so everytime you edit an article, placing this there would make our job easier. So a few questions I'd like everyone to answer:

1)Does everyone like the picture? 2)Is the wording adequate? 3)Any other queries/problems?

I'll let you know when a new improvement arises... Spawn Man 00:07, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

New improvement 2

As per step three (on the dinosaur project talk page), I promised to ask a general consensus about any new improvements made. So, I'd like everyone to give comments on the new talk page banner:

What does everyone think of it? It's meant to be placed on the user talk page or user page of members of the Dinosaur wikiproject, so placing this there would make our job easier. So a few questions I'd like everyone to answer:

1)Does everyone like the picture? 2)Is the wording adequate? 3)Any other queries/problems?

I'll let you know when a new improvement arises... Spawn Man 00:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC).

New improvement 3

As per step three, I'm informing you that... A new userbox has been created!! Please give comments and feedback (not including the picture, which may be due to change).

This user participates in
WikiProject Dinosaurs.

I will inform on arrival of more improvements. Spawn Man 19:28, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

New Task bar

I've successfully created an open list of tasks on the Wikipedia: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 23:36, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Dinosaurs

Hi Dracontes!

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, Lourinhasaurus, Lucianosaurus, Lukousaurus, and Lycorhinus.

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 06:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

No harm at all! ;-) I had time to kill and I went to my web references and just typed away. Dracontes 17:00, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Trigonosaurus

This has been listed on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Trigonosaurus. Please go and vote for it to be kept. I'm sure it's a real dinosaur, for the reasons I've explained there. Do you know more about it such as whether it's a sauropod or theropod? The Dutch WP says sauropod, but the new article here says theropod. Thanks. RupertMillard (Talk) 16:24, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Mekosuchinae

I'm not bothered. I certainly understand the value of being precise with proper designations. I made a small modification so that the alternate is there for people whose eyes glaze over when scientific names are mentioned (even mine do on occasions). Sabine's Sunbird talk 03:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Wiki:pt

Olá Dracontes, Eu reparei que está contribuir em artigos relacionados com a lusofonia e gostaria de convidá-lo para participar na Wikipédia em português, actualmente temos mais de 135 mil artigos. Sua ajuda será muito bem vinda. Se por acaso tiver algum problema ou dúvida deixe uma mensagem na minha página de discussão. Continue com esse bom trabalho, Rei-artur 22:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Nice catch

Nice to see you're keeping tabs on new dinosaurs, Dracontes! Some of the recent additions aren't even in Google, yet, so it's likely, as we already saw with Trigonosaurus and others (such as on the list of dinosaurs), that they may get deleted by folks who are searching google. I've got to say I'm impressed, though, that you're quicker than the google-bots! Keep up the great work! :) --Firsfron 20:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Unlike those bots, I know where and what to look for :-D Besides I don't want Dinoguy2 to get all the credit :-P Dracontes 08:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

DinoProject proposals

Hello Dracontes,

I was just wondering if you had been by the Project talk page lately and seen some of the proposals I threw out there at the bottom of the page. I would love to get your comments as a long-time member (longer than me) before anything happens.

1) New Project page... most of the text is the same or similar, but I think it looks a little snazzier and better organized. Feel free to comment on everything from color scheme to its existence in the first place! Link: User:Sheep81/WPDinopage

2) Featured Dinosaur Initiative... there have been several attempts to get something going in order to regularly get dino articles featured. This is the latest iteration of that. Again, feel free to make any comments you like. This plan does not necessarily have to come to fruition. Link: User:Sheep81/FeaturedDinoInitiative

Thanks for your consideration! Sheep81 23:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Dinosaur short articles

Saw your update on the short articles page. HUGE thanks! :) --Firsfron of Ronchester 15:42, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Dinosaur text sources

Hello, I was just looking over Suuwassea, and noticed that the text had an unusual, somewhat bookish style. Did you write it yourself, or did you import it from some other source? If the latter, could you identify the source? Thanks. --Improv 17:44, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

"Mekosuchin"

Actually the vernacular name of any family level taxon is not regulated by the ICZN and as such there is no official way of changing the name ending. Any vernacular name ending -IN could refer to a subfamily, tribe or subtribe though in many papers people use it as denoting a tribe, but it is also used as denoting a subfamily. One of the interesting matters in this problem is no-one has (to my knowledge) proposed a vernacular name for a subtribe. The website you refered to in your post has no "legal" status on this matter i'm afraid, and although it would help to harmonise the community into using a common vernacularisation, until the ICZN in the fifth addition formalises this the problem will persist. Mark t young 16:58, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Richard Arkwright

Dear Dracontes

What does you addition Hr gav mean on the Richard Arkwright page?

Yours Faithfully Martin Cordon Martin Cordon 17:49, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Dear Dracontes

I apologise for my misunderstanding. Removing the offending item was my intent. Thank you for That.

Yours Faithfully Martin Cordon Martin Cordon 11:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Stegosaurus

Hi Dracontes!

I'm planning to send Stegosaurus to Featured Article candidacy. The article failed its first nomination, but user:Casliber and I have been hard at work fixing stuff. As you're listed as a member of Wikipedia: WikiProject Dinosaurs, I figured I'd drop you a line and see if there was anything you thought should be added/removed/cited on the article before it is sent to FAC. We definitely want it to pass! :)

(Feel free to make any edits on the article itself, comment on the talk page, or leave a note on my talk page). Thanks for your time, Firsfron of Ronchester 19:28, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Auroraceratops

Oops - my bad. Thx for clearing that up. What about if we change it to say "...two pairs of fangs with superficial ridges." so it's clearer for lay people? Also, are they really "fangs" (large pointed teeth) or just teeth? Thanks. Secret Squïrrel, approx 10:45, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Delichon

I saw your changes to this article, which I have no problem with. I just wondered about the list of species in the taxobox where you have changed the <br> format I normally use to a bullet list. Is this an MOS thing, or just personal preference? jimfbleak 11:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

This is the culprit: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Dinosaurs#Taxobox_question scroll down a bit for a new take at using the Taxobox template. Besides it wont become confusing if someone decides to find the citation for each of the species, which I probably will given time ;-) Dracontes 12:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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hi

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Thanks for the author catch on Diceratus

Thanks for the fix! I must have merged him with Oliver Rauhut in my mind. J. Spencer (talk) 14:01, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

List of characters in Magic: The Gathering: Y

Do you want List of characters in Magic: The Gathering: Y restored? I hold no ill will. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 19:31, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

OK. All yours. Cheers! Wassupwestcoast (talk) 16:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Re: add ing images of list of plesiosaurs

Looking back at the list, i agree with what you've said. some of the images ( such as Pliosaurus) are in desperate need of re-sizing. i'll also start looking at moving/getting-rid-of some images to make things line up again.Ryan shell (talk) 19:54, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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Beast Quest

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List formatting

Huh? Abyssal (talk) 15:52, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Oh, you mean where a lot of the information isn't filled in? I stopped manually adding information because I was collaborating with another user on a possible bot that would do it automatically. Abyssal (talk) 15:56, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

The table proposal was rejected from the dinosaur list because it was too long and the major changes would cause it to lose its featured status, none of which apply to the shorter non-featured lists. So, I'd just keep going with the table version since no one has voiced any complaints about those specific articles. Abyssal (talk) 21:05, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

It seems wanting to undo the table was your intention from the beginning. I wish you had been more forthright. If you had an argument against that style, you should have just said so. Anyway, you don't have my blessing for erasing the tables, but if you really want to I'm not going to push the issue. Do as you see fit. Abyssal (talk) 03:21, 8 May 2012 (UTC)

Talk:Academic Journals Database

Thank you for the additional information on Academic Journals Database. These are all in foreign languages I can only speak English and Arabic. Is there a way that you can source these into the actual article? Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Morning277 (talk) 18:31, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Sikhism

Some nice work on that. Thanks for your input. I'm trying to make it sound more legible and less of a "fundementalists guide" to abstract concepts. Keep it up. Thanks SH 11:09, 30 November 2013 (UTC)