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June 27, 2007 Featured portal candidate Promoted

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Looks great! :) Firsfron of Ronchester 07:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! :) -- Spawn Man 06:56, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
Wow. I am impressed.cheers, Casliber | talk | contribs 08:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Is the "Featured dinosaurs" section restricted to featured articles that are just about the real dinosaurs, or any featured article that is dinosaur related. More specifically, Jurassic Park (film) was recently awarded featured article status, and I wasn't sure if that should be moved to the "Featured dinosaur articles" section or not, because it isn't a "dinosaur article" so much as it's a article about a film that has dinosaurs in it.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 00:07, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

Good question. I'd ask Spawn Man about it. J. Spencer 16:08, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
Great question - Although the Jurassic Park article has recently been featured, I'd prefer this portal to reamin about the scientific aspect of dinosaurs, not the popular culture side. If in the future, we get some more Featured dinos, I'd probably allow the article to come through, but at the moment it would stick out like a sore thumb as we only have a few featured dinosaur articles & adding a pop culture article like that would detract from the real reason of the portal. So for, I'd suggest the article stay off, but in the future we'll definitely put it in. Cheers, Spawn Man 02:40, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Works for me, I was only curious. Thanks.  BIGNOLE  (Contact me) 02:43, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Excellent -- Spawn Man 02:48, 28 May 2007 (UTC) :)

[edit] Promoted

Due to overwhelming consensus, Portal:Dinosaurs is now a featured portal. All comments have been addressed, and it is clear that the portal meets the featured portal criteria. I personally would like to see one or two more sections... Up to you guys. Good work! Aquarius • talk 05:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much Aquarius!!! I can't wait to tell the project. Cheers, Spawn Man 02:06, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dracorex DYK

Is it possible to change/remove a DYK from circulation? Even a quick reading of the Dracorex article shows that whoever wrote "Dracorex hogwartsia was a dinosaur named for its resemblance to the Hungarian Horntail" misinterpreted something. In the quoted interview, it's clear that Rowling herself suggested it looks like that particular dragon, and it was not Bakker's intent to name it after the Horntail... Dinoguy2 03:53, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

As long as you replace it with another one and keep the DYK's in the same alphabetical order and formatting. Cheers, Spawn Man 02:51, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ichabodcraniosaurus

Can anybody provide reliable sources for Ichabodcraniosaurus? The third link is dead, and the other two go to a mailing list. Corvus cornixtalk 21:28, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to copy this over to WP:DINO, and the specific article, for visibility. As far as I know it was a "gag" name, but it was probably covered in one of Mark Norell's books. The third link is for a French website that has since moved, so I don't know how much help it would be on the English WP. It's usually used as a cite for a name in the brief window between it becoming known and showing up in English sources, as the webmaster gets ahold of names faster than almost anyone else. J. Spencer (talk) 01:02, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recent fossil pictures without an accompanying article

I recently visited the Beijing Museum of Natural History and I managed to take a number of pics of some "dinosaurs" and some of other interesting fossils (proto avians, fish, alligators, etc), many of which are unique to China. I have added some of the pics I took to articles that already existed, but I have found that there are a number of shots of fossil creatures for which there is no pre-existing article. Anybody here interested in putting together an article for the following orphaned pics?

  • Fossilized eggs of Elongatoolithus elongatus [1]
  • Partial skull/jaw of Eoalligator huiningensis [2]
  • Reversed-impression footprints (ichnites) of Jialingpus yuechiensis [3]
  • Specimen of Turfanosuchus dabanensis [4]
  • Specimen of Dalinghesaurus longidigitus [5]
  • Specimen of Hoopterus gracilis [6]
  • Specimen (skull close-up) of Parakannemeyeria youngi [7]
  • Specimen of Laxaspis qujingensis [8]
  • Head of a specimen of Nochelaspis maeandrine [9]
  • Specimen of Paralycoptera wui [10]
  • Specimen of Peipiaosteus pani [11]

I like taking pictures of them, but I can't claim to be an expert, hence this message to the group. I hope someone sees this as a challenge.

Cheers! Captmondo (talk) 00:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)