Anselmus7
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Fossil stubs edit
Hallo, while stub-sorting I've come across several of the articles you've started, like Wutubus with the edit summary "(Created page. Will return to later. Please do not delete due to brevity)".
Please don't do this. There is no hurry to get all these articles started (unless you are in a race with poor editors who think that the number of articles they've started shows how clever they are). It is much better to get each article up to a standard fit for the encyclopedia before moving on to the next. I've cleaned up Wutubus: added the References section, found a useful link, etc. Please go more slowly and create fewer, better, stubs. Thanks. PamD 09:03, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
- And please sort out the "reference" for Sinosabellidites. If it's in a journal which is not available on open access, that's OK: but you need to give a proper journal ref for it - author, title, journal title, volume, page, date. Thanks. PamD 09:06, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
- Concur, I saw some too. We do not wish to be unkind, but it is common for stubs to languish for ten years or more without being improved in any way, so it is vital that they are reliably sourced from the outset. If you can find two or three citations for each one, that would be very much better than just one, and it should not need to be said that all the citations must be correct and complete down to page numbers. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:08, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
- Hello. I appreciate the advice. I am currently gathering and sorting information about a variety of similar taxa, and as I organize this information, I want to add part of it to these new (or sparse) pages iteratively. I understand that it is not optimal, but it is easier for me to work this way on this project. There are still some pages I intend to make, but as I go through them I will include more formatting, like for references. The Sinosabellidites link is correct, it is just for a paper whose reference could not be easily auto-generated. I will fix it. Thank your recommendations to a less experienced editor. Anselmus7 (talk) 17:09, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
Nomination of Rugotheca typica for deletion edit
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