Some Ichthyosaurs with a Human to Scale

More images of prehistoric animals with a human to scale I made for Wikipedia. These three are ichthyosaurs. Click the pictures for more information on the animals they represent.

Plesiosaurs with a Human to Scale

I’ve made a bunch of images depicting prehistoric animals and their size compared to a modern human for Wikipedia. Although I intended on posting them here, I was never blessed with the opportunity.

Actually, I just completely forgot to. Funny how the human mind works sometimes, eh? Well, I created three more “to scale” images today, and since I had the good sense enough to think of it, I decided to post them. I’ll get around to posting the old ones once I find them, I promise.

Click the picture for more information on the plesiosaur depicted.

Wikicritic Logic

First the critics said…
“Wikipedia’s stupid ‘anyone can edit’ anti-elitism leaves it vulnerable to swarms of idiots and vandals. So why the hell would I want to contribute when anything I write will be replaced with jibberish or garbage?”

Then Wikipedia institutes the semi-protection feature to protect a small number vandalism-prone articles by limiting contributions to registered members that have been on the site more than four days, a tiny fraction of the site’s editors.

Then the critics said…
“By excluding the contributions from a small fraction of contributors from a miniscule percentage of articles Wikipedia has abandoned its democratic ideals! It’s no longer the encyclopedia anyone can edit! It’s practically a fascist regime!!!”

I guess the lesson we can take away from this is that the wikicritics wanna bitch and no amount of actually complying with their wishes is going to stop them.

Deletionist Wikipedians

They are douchebags.

“Let There be Lists!”

I’ve been extremely busy in my free time compiling lists of fossil animals. Below is a list of all of my new ones. Most of them need sever formatting and cosmetic work, but they’re still pretty grand. Enjoy!

List of acanthodians
List of eurypterids
List of placoderms
List of prehistoric annelids
List of prehistoric bony fish
List of Prehistoric Bryozoans
List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish
List of prehistoric jawless fish
List of prehistoric sponges
List of xiphosurans

60 Edits in a Day! Wikipedia Adventures Continued…

I’ve been actively making some contributions to Wikipedia recently. Last Friday I made over 60 edits in a single day.  A couple of days ago, I made even more than that. Despite doing a high quantity of them, the edits I’ve been making have been mostly to do with classifying articles. Here’s the break down:

I made a few articles in the List of Fossil Sites. Specifically, the Gres a Reptiles (which is French) and the Aquia Formation (straddling Maryland and Virginia) and the Baharija Formation (African).

But that was the tiny minority of wortwhile edits. The less interesting but more time intensive edits have been:

Sorting out all of the Ammonite genre which are a member of the order Ceratitida into that order’s category.

Creating the Ammonite Stub Template.

Adding the above to every Ammonite stub (approximately 200 of them).

Removing the ammonite stubs from the cephalopod stub and paleontology stub categories.