Talk:2018 in paleontology

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Section sizes

Section size for 2018 in paleontology (41 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	411	411
Flora	10	6,620
Plants	43	43
Fungi	6,567	6,567
Cnidarians	16	22,513
Research	2,230	2,230
New taxa	20,267	20,267
Arthropods	84	84
Bryozoans	17	2,163
New taxa	2,146	2,146
Brachiopods	19	51,356
Research	2,593	2,593
New taxa	48,744	48,744
Molluscs	47	47
Echinoderms	59	59
Conodonts	15	28,382
Research	7,789	7,789
New taxa	20,578	20,578
Fish	44	44
Amphibians	56	56
Reptiles	83	83
Synapsids	15	28,572
Non-mammalian synapsids	31	28,505
Research	21,241	21,241
New taxa	7,233	7,233
Mammals	52	52
Other animals	19	84,866
Research	39,093	39,093
New taxa	45,754	45,754
Foraminifera	18	33,602
Research	3,418	3,418
New taxa	30,166	30,166
Other organisms	21	35,801
Research	18,811	18,811
New taxa	16,969	16,969
History of life in general	65,912	67,977
Trace fossils	2,065	2,065
Other research	57,253	103,636
Paleoceanography	23,638	23,638
Paleoclimatology	22,745	22,745
References	161	161
Total	466,433	466,433

Page size

This page is currently 503,243 bytes long; that's far too big. I see that some kingdoms already have their own articles; which others can be split off? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:48, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Improved navigation to sub-articles

At the moment, we have quite a few headings with nothing but links to sections which have been split off to their own articles. Is there some way we could consolidate these into an easily navigated section listing the relevant sub-articles? Turnagra (talk) 05:14, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Too many sections? Too much in general paleontology?

Since it's clear this article should be further split, I am appealing to contributors with relevant knowledge in order to assist further splitting the article.

1. Can any of these sections be merged?

2. Can information in the general paleontology and other organisms sections be moved into other (or new) sections?

The largest section which can be split out is only 30,000 bytes, so it would be helpful to make these sections larger before splitting. Onetwothreeip (talk) 08:29, 23 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Macrochelys, is it possible to move any content from the miscellaneous sections into other or new sections? Onetwothreeip (talk) 22:31, 8 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

These sections include paleontology-related research that isn't (or at least isn't solely) about one group of organisms, so I don't think moving them to other sections (which are about specific groups of organisms) would be the best solution. I'll check these sections and try to think of a way to at least subdivide them.--Macrochelys (talk) 09:02, 9 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]