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)	293	293
Flora	10	6,590
Plants	43	43
Fungi	6,537	6,537
Cnidarians	16	22,270
Research	2,230	2,230
New taxa	20,024	20,024
Arthropods	84	84
Bryozoans	17	2,166
New taxa	2,149	2,149
Brachiopods	19	28,875
Research	2,593	2,593
New taxa	26,263	26,263
Molluscs	47	47
Echinoderms	59	59
Conodonts	15	27,710
Research	7,789	7,789
New taxa	19,906	19,906
Fish	44	44
Amphibians	56	56
Reptiles	83	83
Synapsids	15	28,315
Non-mammalian synapsids	31	28,248
Research	21,139	21,139
New taxa	7,078	7,078
Mammals	52	52
Other animals	19	83,608
Research	38,504	38,504
New taxa	45,085	45,085
Foraminifera	18	32,126
Research	3,418	3,418
New taxa	28,690	28,690
Other organisms	21	35,194
Research	18,238	18,238
New taxa	16,935	16,935
History of life in general	65,793	67,858
Trace fossils	2,065	2,065
Other research	57,053	103,465
Paleoceanography	23,638	23,638
Paleoclimatology	22,774	22,774
References	161	161
Total	439,004	439,004

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Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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 edit

Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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? edit

Latest comment: 3 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion

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

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