User talk:Dinote

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Many times I change to articles I need help with. Like this page now. Daycamper4444 20:53, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Note on recent categories

Hello, Dinote;

Thank you for your work, but it is generally not thought to be necessary to make categories for subjects with only a few articles: see here for example. Also, fabrosaurs have been abandoned by practically everybody except a researcher or two in China, as Fabrosauridae is paraphyletic and poorly defined. J. Spencer 20:01, 4 August 2007 (UTC) --Dinosaurs & birds

13:46, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Piksi

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[edit] Those old birds!

Hi, thanks for your effort! Two points of note: 1) you might want to consult Fossil birds for the placement of taxa (for example Torotix - we'd be glad if it were a flamingo; at present we can only say it was an aquatic bird and it was not a duck or grebe or Hesperornithes or Ichthyornithes. 2) Rather than writing, "it lived ... mya" use "it lived during <era, such as "the Late Cretaceous"> (... mya)". For example, Torotix is based on a single partial humerus which can be quite confidently assigned to the Late Maastrichtian - and that's not even in the range you gave. From my experience, the average prehistoric bird species existed for perhaps 2 million years at most.
Thus, by using the more indirect way to put the date, you'll avoid those mistakes. Also thanks for using the "Cretaceous birds" (etc) categories! I'll add taxoboxes and stuff, and it helps me find the articles. Dysmorodrepanis 19:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ornithischian categories for deletion

Hello, Dinote;

I've decided to put Category:Fabrosaurs and Category:Heterodontosaurs up for deletion. The discussions are at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_August_19#Category:Heterodontosaurs and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_August_19#Category:Fabrosaurs. Please feel free to comment. I think that the heterodontosaur category in particular has its uses, but it's very small and has little growth potential. Have a good day! J. Spencer 19:28, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Piksi barbarulna

Check it out. I have read the papers, and I don't think there is much more that could be said about it. Dysmorodrepanis 21:43, 21 August 2007 (UTC) Template:Dinote1

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Dinote

Template:Dinote has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. ÐeadΣyeДrrow (Talk|Contribs) 14:25, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

The outcome was "move to userspace", meaning the names of the template have been moved to user subpages of yours (For example, Template:Dinote dinosaurs was moved to User:Dinote/dinosaurs). If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. — Malcolm (talk) 00:44, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template speedy deletion

A tag has been placed on Template:Lead toys, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done for the following reason:

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For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. HokieRNB 18:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your usepage

You recently placed the finger on your userpage. I've removed it because it's rather inappropriate. We are here to build an encyclopedia, not to insult each other. Have a nice day, Maxim(talk) (contributions) 21:21, 21 October 2007 (UTC)