User talk:Anky-man

Welcome!

Hello, Anky-man, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Antorbital fenestrae in Stegosaurids[edit]

Hi Anky-man!

Thank you for your several contributions to Wikipedia's dinosaur articles. You've recently edited Stegosaurus to say that Stegosaurus had a small antorbital fenestra, the hole between the nose and eye. I'm not finding anything which verifies this: one of my books specifically states they didn't have antorbital fenestrae, and Palaeos.com's Stegosauridae page shows many skulls, all without antorbital fenestrations. I've reverted for now, but am certainly willing to look at evidence which supports the idea. I'm also cross-posting this to the Stegosaurus talk page with th hopes that this matter can be cleared up. Best wishes and happy editing, Firsfron of Ronchester 16:59, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I replied and gave the references, although I mistakenly put these under a separate section under Discussion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Anky-man (talk • contribs) 19:22, 11 April 2007 (UTC).[reply]

Great! Thank you for responding so quickly. I've left further comments on the article's talk page, asking if this is limited to S. stenops or has been found in other Stegosaurus species. Maybe it's best to keep this discussion in one place, and it's better to have this on the article talk page, where everyone can discuss this, but I did want to thank you for the correction with reference. Your username is Anky-man, which I'm assuming is in reference to Ankylosaurids; it's nice to see someone with an interest and excellent knowledge of Thyreophorans contributing to Wikipedia. :) Don't worry about editing mistakes (like putting talk page comments in a new section); any talk page comment can easily be fixed. Also, on a completely unrelated note, you can sign your talk page messages by typing four tildes (~~~~). Best, Firsfron of Ronchester 20:33, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for moving my previous contribution to the antorbital discussion section. I am still learning the tricks of this place. Would you also move my other two comments on Stegosaurus names to their appropriate sections? Thanks, Anky-man 21:22, 11 April 2007 (UTC)Anky-man

I moved the middle comment, but user:Casliber had already responded to your last comment on the page, so I didn't refactor that one, as I didn't want to confuse anyone by moving multiple comments. Don't worry about mistakes, though: just keep doing what you're doing! And feel free to ask me (or anyone else) for help. It takes a while to get the hang of editing, but you'll get it. Best wishes, Firsfron of Ronchester 03:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Forgot to mention: I've reverted my revertion of your edit: your contribution is back in place. Firsfron of Ronchester 03:25, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Anky-man 03:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)Anky-man

Wow, So many new cool additions to Stegosaurus! Very cool. Firsfron of Ronchester 16:20, 18 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Cool! Love the images of the formations. Cool. Did want one of Morrison Formation for Stegosaurus article many moons ago. Would be good to get in Allosaurus one too.cheers, Casliber | talk | contribs 01:31, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Dinosaur Park Formation[edit]

There seems to be a mistake, as Dropzink added the image, whereas I added the sprawling floral and faunal lists, but if the image is wrong, it should definitely be removed. Thanks for catching that! J. Spencer 02:46, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the problematic image. J. Spencer 02:50, 8 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Como Bluff[edit]

Hi. I have noticed that you have edited dinosaur pages related to Wyoming in the past, so I'm appealing to your expertise. A recent edit to Como Bluff added the Dakota Formation to the list of formations found there. I followed up by wiki linking to the Dakota Formation page, but on that page I noticed that in Wyoming, the Dakota Formation is now called the Cloverly Formation. I'm nowhere near an expert, so I put a call out for expertise on the Talk:Como Bluff page, but I also thought I would see if you had a few minutes to check out the page and correct it if necessary. Thanks. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 03:00, 31 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I appreciate your expertise. CosmicPenguin (Talk) 18:11, 6 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Camptosaurus skull[edit]

Hello, Anky-man, and thank you for the upload! J. Spencer (talk) 04:08, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Laramie Formation Cite errors[edit]

You did alot to the Laramie Formation article in its early days. Thanks for that!:D Unfortunately, as I went about redoing the article's citation style to use Wikipedia's fancier citation format, I noticed that the article actually references some sources that were never added to the article's reference section. This includes "Cope 1874," "Carpenter 1979" and possibly "Carpenter and Young 2003," there's already a 2002 paper by those cited, so either the 2002 or 2003 may be a typo. If you could cite those sources or whatever, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all your help <3 Abyssal (talk) 13:11, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for catching the missing references. Those have been added. You are mistaken about the "preferred" method for citing sources, you simply prefer one method over the other acceptable one that I used. Second, you really dumbed down the species list by removing the higher categories and made it less valuable for people wanting to cut and paste the lists to their term papers, etc. THAT is very unfortunate for Wikipedia.Anky-man 13:33, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

Ankster, C'mon![edit]

You, um, undid quite a bit of work on the Laramie Formation page. How come? Abyssal (talk) 22:29, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why did I undo what you did? I gave my reason before, which you apparently did not read. Here it is again verbatim: "Abyssal, I appreciate the time you have taken to "tweak" the taxa lists for the various geological formations. However, in doing so you really dumbed down the lists by removing the higher categories. This, and your restructuring the data into simplistic tables, has made the lists less valuable for people wanting to cut and paste the lists to their term papers, scientific papers, etc. Also, although it is nice that your support the inclusion of art to the paleo articles, they mislead Wiki readers into thinking more is known about what an animal looks like than is often the case. That plays into the hands of Wikipedia critics who say the information in the articles is misleading, wrong, simplistic, etc. If you really feel a need to use a generic illustration, then place it in the article about a taxon and link from the list rather than placing the art on the specimen list. Furthermore, your restructuring of the lists to added columns(such as "Description")often duplicates in a very substandard way the information found in separate articles. So what is the point? Anky-man 13:48, 4 September 2008 (UTC)"

I have stopped contributing to Wiki since your dumbing down the articles makes my time wasted, and frankly I have a more important things to do.

Hogback_DinoRidge.JPG‎[edit]

Hi, thanks for contributing. I was wondering, if you're in the area, and if it's not a big bother, if you can post a bigger picture of Hogback_DinoRidge? The picture is so beautiful, only it's very small. Thanks and please forgive me if what I'm asking is too much. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rosswood40 (talk • contribs) 21:48, 23 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding licensing of an image you uploaded.[edit]

Hey, Anky-man. I'm interested in using File:Cope Quarry.jpg in the Edward Drinker Cope article. However there are some issues with its info template. Basically for it to be public domain it needs to have been published before 1923, or we need to know the author has been dead 70+years. Otherwise, if the image hasn't been published the sale of the image could constitute publishing. Either way if we want to use the image we need a bit more info and I was hoping you could address that. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs^(talk) 13:12, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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