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good-morning Since: Nov, 2021
2022-08-12 10:59:22

bump

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good-morning Since: Nov, 2021
2022-08-18 13:20:53

If you disagree about a new page I can also move the description of the sandbox to the mammal-like reptiles folder in the original page as an addendum.

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CytoZytokine Since: Jun, 2022
2022-08-18 13:25:44

Morning (that was awkward to say), most of us here are not even knowledgeable on paleontology, let alone certified paleontologists. I'm sorry to say but, you're on your own with those Useful Notes pages because there's not much we can do to help you.

laserviking42 Since: Oct, 2015
2022-08-18 13:26:57

We're not wikipedia, I would question the need to have so many different Useful Notes pages tbh.

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good-morning Since: Nov, 2021
2022-08-18 13:43:27

^^ 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.

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Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2022-08-18 14:13:27

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.)

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good-morning Since: Nov, 2021
2022-08-18 15:01:13

Thanks 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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Tabs MOD Since: Jan, 2001
2022-08-18 15:12:52

I think nobody can say whether we "should" or not, but you could. Other Extinct Creatures also isn't very long, so it'd fit there without running into character limit problems.

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