Talk:Lists of synapsids

Kudos

Nice table. Agathman (talk) 17:29, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. User:Burmeister added most of the information, though. He did great work. Abyssal (talk) 16:01, 17 June 2009 (UTC)

No List

There is no list of synapsids here. Looking at the history, there used to be a list, but it was removed in the last edit. Since I just stumbled upon this, I am hesitant to undo the last change, (May 11, 2009) by User:Burmeister. Does anyone know what's up with this page? Ennisj (talk) 08:26, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

The original "List of synapsids" was split in List of pelycosaurs and List of therapsids. Burmeister (talk) 15:08, 14 December 2009 (UTC)

Since there isn't a list but a list of lists, the page should be moved to Lists of synapsids (cf. Lists of countries and territories). Q·L·1968 ☿ 19:24, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

OK. Abyssal (talk) 19:41, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Confusing description and links

This list of lists confuses me for two reasons. Both probably have to do with a not quite completed split of the original list.

1) I got to the page by one of a couple of hundred links to the older name (List of synapsids). Concretely, I followed a link from Cryptocynodon, which just stats that "Cryptocynodon is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid", and then refers to the list, which nowadays is a list of lists. Now, how should I know which one of these lists to search in?

Probably the other hundreds of links suffer from the same problem. Thus, all these links should be corrected to the adequate ones, if there use is to be restored. @Abyssal and Burmeister: Can you fix this (possibly asking for bot assistance)?

2) The explanations of content and terminology never was updated! Thus, the content is presented as one list, containing "all genera that have ever been included in the synapsida excluding mammals and purely vernacular terms". Instead, there now are four lists listed, including List of mammals. (I doubt very much that the "List of mammals" exclude all mammals from the list...) Thus, the explanations should be changed, and possibly migrated to the appropriate sublists (to the extent they are not already copied there). @Abyssal: Can you rewrite and/or move this?

Regards, JoergenB (talk) 19:21, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@JoergenB:Concern number 1 should be easy. I think I know just the guy. @John of Reading: Are you busy? :) Could you scan the genera articles linked to from the List of pelycosaurs and List of therapsids and replace the see also link to the List of synapsids with a link to whichever list includes that taxon? Concern number 2: I rewrote the intro and removed the redundant glossary along with some other minor tweaks. Improvement? Abyssal (talk) 20:09, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@Abyssal: Yes, that looks do-able. I'll tackle it in the next few days sometime. -- John of Reading (talk) 21:06, 14 December 2019 (UTC)

@Abyssal:  Done. Three articles (Ianthodon, Nitosaurus and Xyrospondylus) are mentioned in both List of pelycosaurs and List of therapsids. Do they need checking? I've given them a two-item "See also" section. -- John of Reading (talk) 12:15, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Linking both should be fine, at least for now. Thanks for your hard work! Abyssal (talk) 13:07, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

@Abyssal and John of Reading: Thanks! JoergenB (talk) 17:12, 23 December 2019 (UTC)