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Thanks for your contributions to Hippopharangites. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it consists of machine-generated text and the article lacks an explanation of what the subject is and a plain explanation of why it is important. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

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At this moment, I only wish to create a stub for Hippopharangites consisting of the text that was originally in the halkieriid article. I may get to improving it later. African Mud Turtle (talk) 13:01, 1 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

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where acritarch paper IC1101-Capinatator (talk) 09:28, 23 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

the conodonts and acritarchs are all in the Chinese paper I attached African Mud Turtle (talk) 13:16, 23 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Your good article nomination of the article Megistaspis has passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Please also consider reviewing somebody else's nomination to help keep the backlog down. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of SilverTiger12 -- SilverTiger12 (talk) 11:04, 7 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

On 25 July 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Megistaspis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that fossil traders frequently outline the antennae of the trilobite Megistaspis with "cat ears"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Megistaspis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (Megistaspis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.

EggRoll97 ^(talk) 00:02, 25 July 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi African Mud Turtle,

There is an ongoing Request for Comment (RfC) at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/August 2026 RfC, which you may be interested in because in the past year, you have nominated or reviewed more than one good article nomination. This message has also been sent to all subscribers to the Good Article Gazette. The RfC contains many proposals (33 at the time of writing), which are split into the following categories: nominators, reviewers, reviews, volunteer roles, reviewing initiatives, and others. However, you are more than welcome to add any proposals of your own that you wish to put to the community.

By the end of September, all the proposals will have been closed by an uninvolved editor, either as a consensus for one of the options or with no consensus. At this point, editors will be invited again to develop these proposals into coherent policy and implement them.

Thank you for your contributions to the good articles project, and I look forward to your input! (in solidarity), JacobTheRox^{(talk|contributions)} 16:02, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply