Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology

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This WikiProject, WikiProject Palaeontology, aims to organise an effort to expand and improve Wikipedia's coverage of palaeontology-related articles. Please feel free to ask questions on our talk page or our chatroom. If you wish to participate in this project, please list your name to Participants, and take a look at our open tasks. We are currently working towards five major milestones: 200 featured articles: 61.5% complete 500 good articles: 52% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 51.7% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 42.2% complete Revision and approval of the 25 taxon articles that were promoted to featured article status before 2010: 4% complete Assessment progression 3.5% List-Class 60.8% Stub-Class 23% Start-Class 7.8% C-Class 3.1% B-Class 1.1% GA-Class 0.6% FA-Class 0.1% remaining Article alerts Hot articles 16 edits 2025 in archosaur paleontology 15 edits Cerro del Pueblo Formation 15 edits Lambeosaurus 11 edits Tafraout Group 11 edits Plicatostylidae 11 edits Panthera spelaea 10 edits Helioscopos 10 edits Pronolagus humpatensis 10 edits Late Pleistocene extinctions 9 edits Mazon Creek fossil beds These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 2 February 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Did you know 25 Jan 2025 – Eosalmo (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion Categories for discussion 01 Feb 2025 – Category:Pliocene events (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion 01 Feb 2025 – Category:Neogene events (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion 22 Jan 2025 – Category:Prehistoric perciform genera (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Geekgecko (t · c) was closed; see discussion Good article nominees 28 Jan 2025 – Pokémon Fossil Museum (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by MatthewHoobin (t · c); see discussion 27 Jan 2025 – Hortalotarsus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jens Lallensack (t · c); see discussion 08 Sep 2024 – Robiatherium (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Tinodon (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c) was promoted by Jens Lallensack (t · c), see discussion Peer reviews 28 Jan 2025 – Homo erectus (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 01 Feb 2025 – Aristonectinae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Aristonectidae by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion 26 Jan 2025 – Aristonectidae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Aristonectinae by Amirani1746 (t · c); see discussion 19 Jan 2025 – Novialoidea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pterosaur by A Cynical Idealist (t · c); see discussion 22 Jan 2025 – Dsungaripteroidea (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to Pterodactyloidea by A Cynical Idealist (t · c) was closed; see discussion Articles to be split 21 Aug 2023 – Kota Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fritzmann2002 (t · c); see discussion 20 Jan 2025 – Gastornis (talk · edit · hist) proposed for splitting by Hemiauchenia (t · c) was closed; see discussion Articles for creation 16 Dec 2024 – Draft:Tulip Beds (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Fossiladder13 (t · c) 04 Nov 2024 – Draft:Akavassky Formation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by GlamorousGeologist (t · c) Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 3 19 27 74 123 FL 1 1 FM 13 13 GA 5 25 40 190 260 B 17 73 110 520 17 737 C 9 68 267 1,494 21 1,859 Start 1 68 393 4,979 24 5,465 Stub 13 170 14,228 32 14,443 List 3 17 43 740 12 815 Category 5,740 5,740 Disambig 22 22 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 61 61 Redirect 1 3 30 760 960 1,754 Template 568 568 Other 12 12 Assessed 39 286 1,081 22,985 8,122 106 32,619 Unassessed 1 1 2 Total 39 286 1,081 22,986 8,122 107 32,621 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 124,032 Ω = 5.42