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Spiral burrows edit

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Fossil categories edit

Hi, I see you've been editing a lot of images of fossils lately, so I was wondering whether you have found this[1] annoying? You can just comment here, that page is pretty dead. FunkMonk (talk) 22:47, 13 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Hi, thanks for your great work changing the categories of fossils. Regards, --PePeEfe (talk) 11:57, 15 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Category:Tyrannosaurus_life_history edit

 

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Tangopaso (talk) 15:37, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Reply

Category:Ornithischia edit

Hello Abyssal,
Excellent job you are doing on dinausaures.
But having Category:Ornithischia, Category:Saurischia only under Category:Dinosauria by classification is not standard.
Taxon categories are always under taxon categories and Category:Ornithischia should be direclty under Category:Dinosauria.
Best Regards Liné1 (talk) 06:54, 6 November 2015 (UTC)Reply

By the way, I created Genera of Dinosauria that will fill itself automatically when {{Taxonavigation}} is added to a genus cateory or gallery.
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Gretarsson (talk) 19:48, 22 December 2015 (UTC)Reply

Great job! edit

Just a drive by to say "Thank You!!" I apologize for my ignorance regarding categories, and am very appreciative of your diligence in seeing that images and videos are properly categorized. Atsme 📞 20:19, 23 March 2016 (UTC)Reply

Would you please stop categorizing objects without knowing what you are actually doing?! edit

You have been adding the categories Middle Triassic Reptilia, Late Triassic Reptilia, and Lopingian Reptilia to the category Procolophon. This genus, however, is restricted to the Early Triassic! So would you please inform yourself about the object that you are about to categorize before eventually categorizing it? Thanks! --Gretarsson (talk) 02:02, 22 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

skulls and skeletzons categories edit

Please categorice the categories correctly. A category like Category:Carcharodontosauridae skulls should be in, Category:Carcharodontosauridae bones if it exists, if not in Category:Carcharodontosauridae anatomy and if this doesn't exist, it should be in Category:Carcharodontosauridae, if this category doesn't exist, you should not make up Category:Carcharodontosauridae skulls. And it is not useful to make up one category for only one subcategory. --Kersti (talk) 17:13, 6 March 2017 (UTC)Reply

Rugops specimen category edit

Hi, given that only one specimen of Rugops is known (the jaw fragment in the category is of an unnamed genus, and probably doesn't belong there), isn't it a bit premature/redundant to make a specimen category? The point of these categories is to make images easier to find, but now we have to navigate through no less than four categories (several which are empty) to find photos of this skull (Rugops> Rugops fossils> Rugops skulls> Rugops (specimen MNN IGU1)). That's extremely excessive... In this case, having a Rugops and one Rugops fossils cateogory is way more than enough, especially with this few images and specimens. FunkMonk (talk) 08:26, 4 April 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Identification of an assumed prehistoric tooth edit

I have recently relocated to North Carolina, near Wilmington. I found a tooth on a beach a few months ago of which I can only find 1 similar reference. I have poured over countless photos but am hesitant to believe that I have properly identified the tooth. Where can I have the tooth properly identified? Drthomas14 (talk) 23:25, 31 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Drthomas14: Have you tried contacting the Cape Fear Museum? It's right in your neighborhood and while I don't think it specializes in natural history they may be able to help or direct you to someone who can. The fossil identification board r/fossilid on reddit may also be able to help. You could also try contacting local amateur groups like the North Carolina Fossil Club or check for less formal online groups on your preferred social media networks. Abyssal (talk) 00:55, 1 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

What are you doing? edit

Please stop categorizing quite inclusive categories under very special categories. You can't place the categories Planolites, Rusophycus, and Cruziana, which currently AFAIK do not contain a single specimen photograph from California, in the category Paleozoic fossils of California! Only photographs of Paleozoic fossils of California should go into such a category, not whole categories of cosmopolitan genera! --Gretarsson (talk) 11:00, 29 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

@Gretarsson: I'm categorizing based on types of fossils found in those areas. We do have more specific subcategories for individual specimens found in those areas, eg Category:Fossils of California are the kinds of fossils one can find in California and Category:Fossils from California are individual specimens that were collected there. Abyssal (talk) 13:33, 29 September 2017 (UTC)Reply
No. A fossil is not the same as a fossil (i.e. extinct) taxon. The word ‘fossil’ mainly is used as short form of ‘fossil specimen’ (e.g. “I am collecting fossils” means “I am collecting fossil specimens.” No one would ever assume that this sentence is said in order to express that someone is collecting fossil taxa. Actually no one would ever say “I am collecting fossil taxa,” because a taxon is an abstract concept which cannot be collected at all). Also it seems problematic to establish categories that have a quite different purpose whereas their names differ by one single small word (‘of’ vs. ‘from’). This difference is too subtle for non-native speakers, and I can imagine that even for a native speaker it is not intuitively clear that ‘Fossils of California’ acutually refers to fossil taxa of Californa. So you should at least change the name of that category to a less misleading one. Nevertheless I would consider such a category use- and senseless, because no one needs photographs of “fossil taxa of California” that do not show fossil specimens found in California. --Gretarsson (talk) 18:01, 1 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
@Gretarsson: I think a subcategory of Category:Prehistoric life of California that contains media of the fossils of those taxa is both sensible and useful. Specimens of a species found in California will be nearly identical to specimens of that species found elsewhere. Since the Wikimedia Commons may not have media of specimens obtained throughout the entirety of the range of that species, having a category for the types of fossils found in a given area will potentially allow readers access to better quality images than they would if there were only a category for specimens actually from California. However, you did make a good point about the name of the category being inadequate and I'm open to changing it. What would you prefer the new name to be? Abyssal (talk) 03:14, 2 October 2017 (UTC)Reply
“Specimens of a species found in California will be nearly identical to specimens of that species found elsewhere.” They can differ in lithology (composition of the matrix) because elsewhere they may occur in types of rocks that doesn’t occur in California. Second: Your subcategories are all on a generic level, so it is very likely that they often may include specimens of species, that doesn’t occur in California at all.
And no, a parent category Prehistoric life in Califoria is surely not self-explaining in that its subcategories are generated in order to accommodate taxa and not specimens. Therefore I recommend again that the categories for fossil taxa should renamed, so that their purpose becomes clear to the user. --Gretarsson (talk) 13:45, 2 October 2017 (UTC)Reply

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Jochen Burghardt (talk) 11:12, 14 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

Museum collections edit

I'm not sure I see the point of putting images of individual artifacts in Category:Museum collections from Washington (state). It doesn't seem to be the way analogous categories are used. - Jmabel ! talk 00:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Not every institution has enough artifacts from certain locations to justify their own subcategory, so some individual items will naturally end up in a location's main collection category. Abyssal (talk) 00:30, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
But it's pointless. An individual artifact is not a museum collection, so this doesn't add anything useful. - Jmabel ! talk 15:17, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: Maybe we should rename the categories. Do you have a better idea for an "objects in museums collected from [location]" category tree? Abyssal (talk) 15:21, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
I'm starting my workday right now, no time to think about it, but I will try later. I think, though, that "collections" is actually most useful when objects are within some particular collection within a museum, e.g. to distinguish for the Maryhill Museum of Art its collection of chess sets vs. its collection of Rodin sculptures. - Jmabel ! talk 15:31, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
The problem I see with just something like Category:Objects in museum collections in Washington (state) is that it would also include every object that is in a category for a specific collection.
I think what is called for, if anything, is more of a maintenance category, something like Category:Objects in museum collections in Washington (state) not yet categorized by collection.
Conversely, I think it would be perfectly appropriate to set up a "collections" category for a particular museum if we have even three such photos. - Jmabel ! talk 22:14, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: This category is for objects collected in Washington, not necessarily housed there. That's this category. Abyssal (talk) 22:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
Aha! Then the current name is entirely misleading.
Then "objects in museums collected from [location]" makes much more sense. Not sure if "collected from" is really right, though. Maybe "objects from [location] in museum collections"? Also, is "collections" really germane here? Would this include or exclude an object on loan from a private collector and displayed in a temporary exhibit? - Jmabel ! talk 22:58, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Jmabel: OK. I'll redirect and rename them as I go along. Abyssal (talk) 23:22, 28 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

Bird subcategories edit

Hi Abyssal - a few odds & ends on making new bird subcategories - first, please remember to copy in the taxonav into the new subcategory for subcategories of photos of wild birds (not needed for illustrations, museum specimens, captive or feral subcats); this is so that automated image harvesters (e.g. Encyclopedia of Life can find the images. Second, please check the nomenclature is up to date before making new subcats (e.g. Anas discors is now Spatula discors; all the extra new subcategories makes renaming them far more tedious). Third, for Old World taxa, please remember the appropriate regional spelling is "behaviour" (not "behavior"). Finally, I don't think "(distant)" is a good idea, as it is far too subjective (and in most cases wasn't anywhere near necessary either with well under 200 files in the relevant parent categories). Only create new subcategories when the parent category is "full" (>200 files) or very nearly full. Thanks! - MPF (talk) 21:28, 23 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

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Category:Titanophasma edit

Hi, just to let you know, I've discovered that most of Category:Titanophasma's contents are in fact a set of unrelated cropped images you uploaded back in 2019. Somehow they all got placed in this category, rather than the categories of their source images. I already fixed some of these just now, by copying categories used in the original images, but maybe you could fix some of them yourself? Monster Iestyn (talk) 01:55, 10 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

I see you've fixed the rest of them now, thank you! Monster Iestyn (talk) 22:23, 11 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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