Portal talk:Extinction

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WikiProject on Extinction This article is part of WikiProject Extinction, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource on extinct animals, extinct plants and extinction in general. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information.


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[edit] Latest Articles

Don't we need a division with a list of the newest extinction-related articles? --Melly42 09:22, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I think that would be nice! Peter Maas 10:52, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
This would be nice, but hard to do. Because most new articles probably are not noticed in the beginning. Peter Maas 15:56, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
well, in that case we could put all Extinct animals or Extinct plants articles (Holocene extinction related) of this year in this division (in chronological order). --Melly42 22:10, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
I've added two new ones I created in Extinction topics. Peter Maas 12:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

Well I'm a little unsatisfied with the current look of the Categories division. The problem is that we have more than hundred categories about extinct species, dinosaurs, prehistoric life etc. in the Wikipedia. But my idea is to limit this division to only 20 or 25 categories. Do you have some suggestions which categories we should put in this division? --Melly42 15:45, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

That is indeed a problem. We should make a selection. Maybe the 14 subcategories found in, because most of these Extinction subcategories even contain subcategories themselves. Peter Maas 15:55, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
i think we should left out the Dinosaur and Prehistoric extinction categories so that only the Holocene extinction topics will appear here in that portal. For categories like Dinosaurs or Prehistoric life i think it is better to create new portals. --Melly42 16:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Well I disaggree with you on that, as this is an extinction portal, not a Holocene Extinctions portal. I would leave them here as well. Peter Maas 12:16, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Selected biography division

What would you thinking about if we remove this division from the portal? --Melly42 15:43, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

That might be a good thing to do. Because I think it will be hard to fill that division with another article every time. Peter Maas 18:42, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
it is possible to rename this division into New Topics? So we could use this devision in future to make new topic entrees.