User talk:Steveoc 86

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Hello, Steveoc 86, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Hey!
I'm studying for a computer graphics/animation degree myself, Steveoc (Maya, Bryce, PhotoShop, etc). Since you have an interest in dinosaurs, and the dinosaur images on your userpage look great, please consider adding more. Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs could use more dedicated artists. Best wishes, Firsfron of Ronchester 18:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
Welcome to WikiProject Dinosaurs, Steveoc! Firsfron of Ronchester 17:16, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Thank you

Hi Steveoc,

Thank you very much for toning down your comments here. It is greatly appreciated. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 09:34, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] daspletosaurus image

Hi Steveoc - I've put your daspletosaurus image into the taxobox of that article. Then I noticed that the species name "Torusus" was capitalized, when it should be lowercase. Also, some people object to signatures in images, or other watermarks. Personally, I don't mind them at all, when they are discrete as yours in that image is, but there is a slim chance it comes up as an issue if that article is nominated for featured status. Debivort 05:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Prosaurolophus

The eyeball itself is larger than the sclerotic ring, which rings the pupil/iris; otherwise, I don't know too much about the eye, but as long as the seeing part is within the bounds of the ring, you're good. The ear fits between the quadrate and the exoccipital process, about where you have it. There's a reconstruction in Lull and Wright '42 of the ear of Anatosaurus, which I can send you. The tabs on the back would be artistic license at this point; you could certainly include them if you want, but their presence is unknown at this time in Prosaurolophus. Those dinosaurs for which we have such structures, Gryposaurus, Brachylophosaurus, and ?Edmontosaurus, don't have them preserved in the neck region for whatever reason.

Incidentally, while looking this up, I noticed that Lull and Wright claimed that Brown had restored the muzzle too long. I personally can't see much of a difference, but I can send you a couple of other reconstructions for comparison if you like. Send me an email, so I can get your address, and I'll send you the ear scan and some other stuff. J. Spencer 17:05, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome! J. Spencer 18:50, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Giganotosaurus Size

Sorry but Giganotosaurus was 13 metres at average and the largest one found was 13.7 but i didnt want to edit that far and at most it was 14.5 metres because of some new estimates i found. BamboozlingBert I found the new estimates in a article when they discovered the 18 metre Spinosaurus fossils and were seeing the sizes of the largest theropods and comparing them. Also the largest Giganotosaurus found was 13.7 metres so it doesn't matter if the articles sourced or not, although i won't change the article information as its sourced but maybe you should, also whats wrong about telling people viewing the article why its teeth are desighned knife-like due to sauropod prey and although you probably won't if you do re-edit it back to 13.7 metres state that Goganotosauru was almost 2 metres larger than any KNOWN Tyrannosaurus.

Resonces here, User talk:Bamboozlingbert21 Steveoc 86 (talk) 01:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Tyrannosaurus Size

Also can you please edit the Tyrannosaurus size as they are potraying it at over 13 metres when it only reached 12 so if it was 13 metres and giganotosaurus was almost 2 metres longer than that makes giganotosaurus almost 15 metres. BamboozlingBert

Resonces here, User talk:Bamboozlingbert21 Steveoc 86 (talk) 01:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Parasaurolophus

You're welcome - I was just surprised to find it (and that someone had translated the entire article so quickly). It's very good! J. Spencer 20:44, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Sure, I don't see anything off about it. I'll put it in the taxobox. J. Spencer 02:30, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deinoychus Picture

You should really put your deinonychus picture on the deinoychus article as the ones currently on there are to bird like and show it as having wings and feathers covering it claws ad hands and they don't look very realistic like that. BamboozlingBert

Like you said deinonychus doesn't have any smoking gun evidence that it did and if it did have feathered hands, face, neck and feet then surely that would cause a problem with feeding like todays birds as vultures don't have feathers on their feet,face and neck so rotting meat doesn't get caught in them so surely deinoychus sould be the same. Also take a look and if you diagree with it and agree with me (for once) edit the feathered dinosaurs page as it classes Triceratops, Tyrannosaurus and Styracosaurus as feathered.!?

Thanks for telling me i checked it again so they must of realised their mistake and edited it.

[edit] Edmontosaurus speed

I belive its speed cold be 25 mph as that is th top speed of tyrannosaurus and evidence on edmontosaurus bones show bite marks of tyrannosaurus that have healed, if they healed it shows edmontosaurus escaped and lived long enough to heal and with few defenive features it hd to of pulled ff and ran away and i only could have done that by using the same speed or a higher speed than tyrannosaurus but the second one is impossible of an animal that size (about it running over 25mph). BamboozlingBert

Resonce here, User talk:Bamboozlingbert21 Steveoc 86 (talk) 01:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Anatotitan

I kinda suspected that A. longiceps was the specimen they had in mind. It's an ignored species now, although it predates almost all of the Edmonto-Anato-Anatotitan species. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a better 12 m Anatotitan specimen, but nobody seems interested in measuring duckbills. We've been using the ISBN-10 for the most part, I think. There are Complete Dinosaur refs in other articles you can borrow and just rewrite, too (Iguanodon comes to mind.)J. Spencer 00:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Spinosaurus Head Image

Hi, I have reverted back to your version of Image:Spinosaurus skull Reconstruction Steveoc.jpg and brightened up the vertebrae image. When dealing with scans of black and white material, I have a habit of trying to maximize the dynamic range of the image to make details more discernible. Since the level of gamma correction varies widely, this could in part be a monitor issue, as some displays don't benefit from this presentation and render everything in a bland, dark tone. The modifications uploaded yesterday weren't created with the benefit of a calibrated monitor or anything, they were the result of an aesthetic decision. Thanks for the feedback, ˉˉanetode╦╩ 19:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Serioulsy Stop what ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bamboozlingbert21 (talk • contribs) 15:10, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rinconsaurus

Hey Steve,

I just saw you signed up for Rinconsaurus. Thanks for volunteering; I look forward to seeing the results. :) Firsfron of Ronchester 11:22, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of a Turkish Woman

Hi, this is a plea for you to support the nomination of my photo as a featured picture at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of a Turkish Woman! If you could I would be very grateful, Kitkatcrazy 16:56, 29 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Giganotosaurus

Okay I get where your going but is the Giganotosaurus really only 43.3 feet long? If thats true, then it is only 3 inches longer than a T-rex! I always though they grew to at least 45 feet long. Is this really true because Giganotosaurus is one of my favorate dinosaurus. Johnny542 16:36, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


Reverting vandalism does not violate the 3RR. Mcelite's edits to Giganotosaurus however did not appear to be petty vandalism. I issued a 3RR warning for that reason. If Mcelite is simply vandalizing or spamming Wikipedia, I suggest reporting him/her to WP:AIV. But for now, he/she seems to have stopped editing. ~EnviroboyTalkContribs - 00:29, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
Responce here to an edit war warning (that been removed by) User talk:Enviroboy#Warning Steveoc 86 (talk) 01:21, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey its me again, Johnny542. I was just wondering, are bulls for animals the larger males of the animal species or is it sometimes the other way around. If you ever saw King Kong, you migh understand like a bull V-rex is larger than a female but in real life, they say that a female T-rex is larger than a bull T-rex. I am so confused. Johnny542 (talk) 20:50, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh okay. Johnny542 (talk) 21:44, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Oh yeah, have you seen King Kong, good movie and game. Johnny542 (talk) 22:26, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

So you are a big dino fan huh. Do you know that new Turok game, it is pretty cool. Johnny542 (talk) 22:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Hey Steve, have you ever seen I Love New York 2, funny-ass show. Also are you going to see Jurassic Park 4 when it comes out in 2008? So what are you doing these past days? Johnny542 16:19, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Allosaurus size comparison.svg

Thanks for creating this great diagram! I guess you know Allosaurus just got featured recently, and your image really helps give context to the article. All the best! – Quadell (talk) (random) 14:47, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alioramus images

Hey Steve, great work on that Massospondylus skull diagram! I was wondering if you could create a similar diagram for Alioramus. No labels or anything, just the skull would be great! Here's a picture if you're interested. The top one is a modern reconstruction from The Dinosauria II and would be the best model. The bottom one is from the original 1976 description and is outdated... the only reason I included it is because it shows a little more detail on the crests.

I was also wondering if there was anyway you could do a scale diagram like the one you did for Bruthayakosaurus or however it's spelled, with the bones printed over the silhouette. In this case all that are known is the skull and the metatarsals of one foot! The body would be like a slender tyrannosaurid, probably similar to this one of Gorgosaurus. It would be about 6 meters long.

I would really appreciate either or both of these images if you have the time and inclination. Thanks! Sheep81 (talk) 07:35, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Image of partial metatarsals: [1] Sheep81 (talk) 12:26, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dunkleosteus

Hi Steve. I liked too much your skull diagram of Massospondylus, that I thought it would be a great idea if you do one of Dunkleosteus, cause I'm working on the article in spanish wikipedia and it need some useful images. If you want to collaborate, I recommend you the skeletal from this paper as base. Thanks. --Dropzink (talk) 07:32, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

Also... don't forget in naming the parts (according to the paper) and put shadows on them, in few words.. like Massospondylus, not Alioramus heheXD Dropzink (talk) 07:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
Wow, it's amazing! Better leave the names in english, I know this stupendous diagram will be used here too. Anyway, it need some changes. Problems I found is that the gnathal plates ("teeth") you marked as dentition, but is not really a dentition, the name on the paper was "Bladed dentition". Also you make a mistake marking the lower gap as Pharymx, cause is Pharynx. And in Quadrato mandibular articulation, it would be better if you put a slash between "Quadrato" and "mandibular" (Quadrato-mandibular). Thanks. Dropzink (talk) 18:46, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
The problem is that the diagram is still indicating the plates are teeth... but probably I confused you with my big explanation. Only mark them as "Bladed dentition". Dropzink (talk) 22:36, 4 March 2008 (UTC) P.D.: Try that the names don't touch with the marking lines.
Perfect!:D Thanks a lot! Cheers. Dropzink (talk) 23:38, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


[edit] NEWS FLASH

The spider has been found, on this video (see the coments, ignore the video), someone mentioned it was found —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mr. Loner (talk • contribs) 13:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] Protection

Ooops, cheers for that! Both were declined for semi-protection anyway, but a certain Mr. Loner has been blocked for a week... So hopefully the Paleozoic spider front should be quiet for a while! Mark t young (talk) 18:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)