User talk:Retallack

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Excuse Me

Please address my concerns as raised on the Talk page immediately. Basket _Feudalist 09:24, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of Interest

Hi, just wanted you to be aware of these policies WP:COI and WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY in regards to Gregory Retallack. Wikipedia's community convention is that articles are to be edited by people with no association to the topic to ensure neutral and reliable information. Perhaps recommend that if there are any changes you'd like to see rather post on the talk page of the article. There's currently some controversy about your edits due to COI. Thanks. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 08:12, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

minor edits only

Thanks Green Cardamon, I appreciate the independent editing of the article which have helped a lot. My edits were only minor (adding and correcting links, making spaces), with the exception of deleting a sentence on reception the theories, which is unnecessary because duplicated in the last section Critical Reception, where the debate is referenced with much more recent citations than the 1990's ones suggested. The debate has moved on since then. Wikipedia editors will prevail --Retallack (talk

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FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 00:55, 4 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Tagging edits as minor

Hi prof.Retallack! Just an heads up: Edits like this, where a non trivial amount of stuff is added/removed/modified, should not be marked as minor. The "minor edit" tag is for really, really small stuff like fixing spelling of a word, punctuation or the like. Also, please do not remove tags without actually fixing the issue of the tag (or giving an explanation). Thanks a lot for your editing and for your scientific work!--cyclopia ^speak! 00:55, 7 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dicroidum article

Hello, thanks for writing this article! I’ve just read it and I’m a bit concerned that it has no citations. That worries me since without proof that this topic is notable, meaning covered enough in journals and published research to get a Wikipedia article on it, the article may get deleted.

Are there any reliable sources on the topic that you can add? If so just edit the article and add citations using the cite tool, or if you have any thoughts or questions just let me know. Blythwood (talk) 23:57, 17 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Dear Wiae, I am trying to sort out a confusing set of redirects. The fossil plants have several taxonomic levels, and also parallel classifications of different organs. Wikipedia is excellent at sorting this out, but merging all into large categories just generates confusion. Alethopteridaceae should include only information on that family, not the whole order. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Retallack (talk • contribs) 01:21, 19 March 2016‎

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Pleuromeia

You've transferred Pleuromeia into the Isoetales without any explanation or source. Every current source I know of places it in its own order Pleuromeiales. So why the change? --EncycloPetey (talk) 04:16, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The source is my own paper of 1997 in J. Paleontology cited in Isoetes page. Many of us see a close relationship between Pleuromeia and the quillworts, and are happy to have them separate families, but not orders. Retallack — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:468:D01:5C:8086:213A:3664:41BD (talk) 15:11, 16 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Then, the Pleuromeia page really needs a paragraph in the taxonomy section explaining this change, and should cite the paper explicitly. --EncycloPetey (talk) 20:26, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

OK: I plan more work on these pages including uploads in the next few weeks. Sorry to be so slow, as I have limited time and experience for this, and really appreciate editorial cleanup by others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:468:D01:5C:59DA:F0AB:6DF3:D8E0 (talk) 15:49, 18 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Glide symmetry

"The opening argument that glide symmetry argues against Glomeromycota is inane, because it also argues against animal, as Dolf Seilacher indicated several decades ago." Hm... Tell it to lancelets that they are not animals, because they have the glide bilateral symmetry. Aleksey (Alnagov (talk) 10:08, 25 November 2018 (UTC))[reply]

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Please take the time to understand a bit more about WP:CATEGORISATION before categorising eg the articles you recently put in Category:Ordovician fossils from Tennessee. For one thing, you should never use categories that don't exist, per WP:REDNOT. And more generally, be wary of WP:OVERCATEGORISATION, in particular when trying to fit the natural world into modern political boundaries. It soon gets very messy for species with a widespread distribution, the folks dealing with extant species tend to prefer by continent or biogeographic zone as they just don't respect political boundaries - and obviously those boundaries are even less meaningful for species that predate Pangaea! There were a few fossils of (state) so somewhat reluctantly I've created Category:Fossils of Tennessee and put your articles in it, and added them to Category:Ordovician plants which is perhaps the more relevant one - in general it's better to classify them as living organisms although obviously trace fossils have to be in fossil categories. Keep up the good work though, it's good that those articles are being created. Cheers. Le Deluge (talk) 14:16, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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possible copyright issue

Not sure if you're still active on here, but just in case: there's some questions about an image you uploaded at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geology. Licks-rocks (talk) 13:56, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

On the other side of things, images you created were uploaded by an editor for Ganarake. The journal where they were published claims copyright, but as the creator of the images you may be able to release a version with a license compatible with Wikipedia. Plantdrew (talk) 22:37, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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