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Nomination of Trevor James Constable for deletion

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Category:Taxa with documented paleopathologies

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Category:Taxa with documented soft tissue fossils

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CfD nomination of Category:Subfields and areas of study related to evolutionary biology

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Proposed deletion of Tilgate Formation

The article Tilgate Formation has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

Tilgate Formation appears in index of 2nd edition dinosauria with reference to page 308, but there is no mention of Tilgate Formation on that page, just Tilgate Forest, so Tilgate Formation is merely a lapsus calami for Tilgate Forest

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Hi, Abyssal. I thought you might want to know about the above PROD, since you created the page. I investigated the claim, and I suspect that instead of a lapsus calami, what actually happened was a spellcheck error in the process of converting the book to an electronic version. Do you have a hard copy of The Dinosauria that you could check? - Gorthian (talk) 05:19, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Just a note to add that what made me suspect a spellcheck error is the phrase "discovered in the strata of Tilgate Forest" on page 737 in the Google Books version. The idea of a stratified forest struck me as most peculiar. - Gorthian (talk) 05:29, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Time Units

The ages in Dinosauria are very general, and a lot of more detailed start work has been done on major formations since the 2nd edition was published. In general though, things like Aptian-Albian are usually used to mean somewhere around the boundary or straddling the boundary, not ranging from early Aptian to late Albian. It can also mean the youngest sediments are Albian and oldest are Aptian, though you wouldn't be able to tell from this when in each stage they are, nor should just Aptian be taken to mean it spanned the entire stage. Listing stage alone is good to get general bearings but is next to useless for comparing formations. Dinoguy2 (talk) 16:23, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

Locations of Mesozoic formations

You've been going great guns on creating Mesozoic-formation stubs (I came here from Khilok Formation), but I have a request. Please put in some information about where each formation is located: a region, a state, a country, anything! It will help de-orphanize some of the articles, and it would help greatly in categorizing. Thanks! - Gorthian (talk) 04:55, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Also, if you could tag the talk page with the WP:GEOLOGY banner, that would help out, too. - Gorthian (talk) 04:57, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Duplicate articles?

Hi, me again. You recently created Luohangdong Formation; but I think it's a misspelling of Luohandong Formation, which you created back in 2009. If I'm right, maybe you could just ask for a speedy delete of the mistaken one. If they really are separate formations, maybe a hatnote or two to disambiguate them? Cheers! - Gorthian (talk) 05:10, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Well, now I found Qiqu Formation and Qigu Formation, and I have the same questions. I don't have the background, or the references, to tease these out. - Gorthian (talk) 05:46, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

June 2014

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Georgia

Did you know there is more than one place in the world called Georgia? Well, now you do. The next time you decide to create 30 or more articles containing identical text blocks, you might want to check first to make sure that the links in them are going to the correct article. Thanks! R'n'B (call me Russ) 21:56, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

brackets

Try not using broken brackets and fix them when bracketbot tells you about them. You currently have 32 broken brackets in your article. I really don't want to waste my time fixing your problems. Bgwhite (talk) 21:41, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Alabama (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

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pagename

Hi Abyssal! I see you have been creating lots of article stubs using {{pagename}}, which puts your articles in the maintenance Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. Could you replace each instance of {{pagename}} with {{subst:PAGENAME}}, so that the wiki will automatically convert the template to the actual page name? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 16:58, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Page is even worse. If there was a Rube Goldberg machine edit award, having {{#if:|{{PAGENAME:}}|{{PAGENAME}}}}[[Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word|PN00{{PAGENAME}}]] for the page's name almost takes the cake.

Here's the edit summary I did on multiple pages in case you didn't see them... Talk about a Rube Goldberg machine edit to just do the page's name. No flags per WP:MOSFLAG. Reference does not mention this formation. Give the exact page, not the home page. Bgwhite (talk) 04:49, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: In my tests, I found that using {{subst:pagename}} (lowercase), I got the mess, whereas {{subst:PAGENAME}} (uppercase) should be fine. Could you please confirm which you used? Thanks! GoingBatty (talk) 22:43, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

GoingBatty, yes, uppercase is answer. Bgwhite (talk) 22:46, 7 July 2014 (UTC)

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Mississippi

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in South Dakota

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Louisiana

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in California

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Iowa

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Kansas

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Missouri

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Arkansas

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Idaho

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Minnesota

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in New Mexico

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Oklahoma

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas

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Platteville Formation

Hello Abyssal. There is an existing article on Platteville Limestone. You may wish to add the content of one article to the other, and convert the one to a redirect. I think that "Platteville Formation" is the more common name, but could be mistaken. Regards, Kablammo (talk) 20:41, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

borked brackets.

Could you check List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Pennsylvania. I think the script went haywire and there are alot of broken brackets. Bgwhite (talk) 22:52, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in El Salvador for deletion

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articles Comment

You have created a lot of articles with nothing in them. Are they going to be fixed or should they all be deleted? NickGibson3900 (Talk - Cont.) 11:35, 12 July 2014 (UTC)

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List of plesiosaur-bearing stratigraphic units

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Campeto Formation

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Lists of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Europe

I was about to Prod the article until I saw your name. You need some text.. big map with nothing else tell me nothing. But the big problem, screen readers (aka blind) have a hard problem "seeing" anything via the map. Might want to change it to a list. Bgwhite (talk) 05:56, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

What kind of text do you think it needs? Surely a clickable map is better than a text list of links to articles, which can be found in the category of the same name anyway. Abyssal (talk) 10:30, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

To begin with, what in the world is a Fossiliferous stratigraphic unit? Without any text to tell what is going on, the map is no better that the template below. Bgwhite (talk) 17:35, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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A Barnstar for You!

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	In recognition of your recent and continuing work on stratigraphic units. RomanSpa (talk) 06:57, 24 July 2014 (UTC)