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^^ I understand, I just noticed that there are so many Prehistoric Life pages that I figured making another one wouldn't be very worrisome. My question was more of a matter of the necessity of making other page than anything related to paleontology in general, I'm sorry if the query disrupted the forum. In fact, is there an official policy over when to make new pages? I know there is one for Work Pages Are a Free Launch, but what about non-work pages? I imagine there is something preventing people from creating how many pages they want.
Edited by good-morning oh hey how are you doing?If I understand correctly, I'm picturing a common ancestor of mammals and reptiles that branches, and we have mammal pages and reptile pages, and you want to move a mammalian section off a page in the reptile branch into a new page on the mammal branch?
If it being on the reptile page is not in line with scientific consensus, feel free to move it off. Useful Notes pages are free launches. If you read the opening of Useful Notes and you think it fits, go ahead. (I know there's definitely an audience for prehistoric life, but that's the extent.)
Edited by TabsThanks so much for the answer! Yes, as far as I know the scientific consensus seems to be that the ancestors of mammals and reptiles aren't in the same group anymore, and since the page is informational (though the text does point it out), I was wondering if we should make a page to move the content for; we could also move it to the page Prehistoric Life - Other Extinct Creatures for simplicity's sake.
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An idea for a small move that I thought it was worth asking for feedback: I noticed in the paleontology fact checking/discussion thread that, in the useful notes page Prehistoric Life - Non-Dinosaurian Reptiles, the group of mammal-like reptiles (the same group of the sail-backed Dimetrodon) was together with reptiles, despite the fact that they aren't considered to be so anymore in the cladistic sense, as the page itself notices. It also talks about the small mammals of the age of the dinosaurs, meaning it included non-reptiles anyway. But since taking it out would be extremely pedantic, as the term was widely used for a long time, I thought that it would be a good idea to move the section to its own page about the ancestors of the mammals and their relatives in general, since it seems to have enough content compared to other small Prehistoric Life pages like Prehistoric Life - Primitive Ornithischians and Prehistoric Life – Hadrosaur Predecessors.
I made the sandbox Prehistoric Life Mammal Predecessors and wrote a description, what did you think? Would this help to organize it or is it pedantically unnecessary? I plan to put a link directing to that in the "mammal-like reptiles" section of the non-dinosaurian reptiles page in case it is moved.
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