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Thanks for the note, Sphen. Welcome to WikiProject dinosaurs; as you can see, there's a ton to be done, so it's very cool you've joined our happy little group. Best wishes and happy editing~ :) Firsfron of Ronchester 05:55, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

AfD nomination of The Speculative Dinosaur Project

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Hi

I haven't seen you around before, so I just thought I'd say hi! I like the username. :) Abyssal (talk) 22:56, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

This is so, so late, but thanks. :) Sphenacodon (talk) 19:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

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Peryton

This edit came up on STiki diff. Just wondering why? As you have some experience as an editor, I am assuming you had a reason. Some explanation in the edit summary would be helpful, or a comment on the talk page. A section blank with tends to come up on the antivandalism software and an edit summary helps those looking at it. - - MrBill3 (talk) 03:48, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

I thought I had left an explanation? Sorry if I was unclear. I've been pruning back a lot of "pop-culture references" from Wikipedia, as most of them tend to boil down to "there was a creature in this RPG I played that looks a lot like this one!" To prevent Wikipedia from becoming a long list of useless fancruft, those are best removed (the Peryton case is especially bad because, despite being a Borges creation, it's being retroactively applied to *every* winged deer ever done in art). One case where I felt an example should have stayed was for the catoblepas, where I retained a comic which literally has catoblepas in the title. Hope that helps! Speaking of pointless entries, Wikipedia should really get rid of all the Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual sections (entry for Catoblepas and for Catoblepas (Dungeons and Dragons)? Seriously?), but I'll get around to deleting them when I have the time. Sphenacodon (talk) 19:32, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Avgodectes

The article Avgodectes has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

This taxon was not validly named in a scientfic publication and was coined by a well known crank, thereby failing WP:SPECIESOUTCOMES.

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Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Hemiauchenia (talk) 21:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)