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New sources for FAR

As part of the FAR process, I ticked this as "satisfactory", but wanted to note some recent sources that should probably be incorporated into the article, as follows. FunkMonk (talk) 18:51, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cerroni & Novas, 2020: The skull of Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte 1985 revisited: insights from craniofacial bones, palate and lower jaw

Cerronia & Paulina-Carabajal, 2019: Novel information on the endocranial morphology of the abelisaurid theropod Carnotaurus sastrei

Delcourt, 2018: Ceratosaur palaeobiology: new insights on evolution and ecology of the southern rulers

Also, should we consider structuring the sections as in more recent dinosaur FACs, with history first and paleoenvironemnt last? FunkMonk (talk) 22:11, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, some interesting stuff in those! I try to incorporate what I can without loosing overall balance. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 09:43, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The fake teeth are a bummer though. I think our skeletal reconstruction needs an update here. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 14:19, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, that was unexpected! Doesn't that also mean our photos of mounted skeletons are wrong? Or maybe it isn't too visible there? FunkMonk (talk) 14:27, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

They are most probably wrong, yeah. But there is nothing we can do about that I think. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 14:55, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Images

There is some MOS:SANDWICHing of images that should be addressed, perhaps by removing a few images. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:57, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Also, there's one citation needed in the function of the horns section. Needs a little tune-up, but a FAR here is not gonna be useful. Hog Farm _Bacon 05:53, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Jens Lallensack: for the issues above. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:06, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see sandwitching on my screen, but I made one diagram smaller where images are most crowded. There is no citation needed; that single sentence without a citation is just editorial, a summary of what follows in the three paragraphs to come; it is just providing structure to the article and guides the reader. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 19:28, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see sandwiching either, but one way images can be "combined" rather than removed can be seen at Podokesaurus, which wouldn't have room for half of the images if I hadn't used the double image template a bunch of places. FunkMonk (talk) 20:40, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]