Talk:Dinosaur

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if they are birds then why are they called terrible lizard?

They were named a long time ago, before much was known about them. Many scientific names don't match the animals very well. 89.104.55.131 13:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Re the undo of my minor edit to the intro:

http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dinosaur&oldid=2833779 I thought that a sentence of where the name dinosaur came from should be in the intro and not the footnote where it currently is and slightly added on the KT theory of why they died out. Both looked good candidates for a sentence in the intro to me.

Well, if placed early in the article it interferes with the main text. Basic facts about the topic are primary, and take precedence. A change based on "If I had written it, I would have done it differently" is not a good enough reason. The footnote tells the readers everything they would need to know about the name. It's not as though it was left out of the article. That would be a reason to put it in. The K/T extinction was already mentioned in the second paragraph, and readers are expected to follow links if they are interested. It is discussed again in a lower section. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:56, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I would have thought many of the edits made in wikipedia are of the "If I had written it, I would have done it differently" and I doubt all of those will be undone. I did a quick check and there is a sentence or more about the origin of the word dinosaur in the main text of the intro in the English, French, and Portuguese pages and the Spanish, German, Italian, and Dutch pages have it at the start of the section after the intro. Seems that this page is quite unusual for relegating this essential fact to a footnote. Not going to argue about it though. Maybe the next person along will be able to explain the need for it better than I have. 2.101.78.29 (talk) 17:39, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

We are different. Our first sentence has to be as simple as possible, and secondary issues can wait. What a taxonomic name means in Greek is not as important as what the animal actually is. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:50, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Too much changing[change source]

Pages like this on main subjects need to be treated carefully. Don't jump in and make huge changes. The page is stable, and makes all the main points: it does not need to be greatly changed. Use this talk page for discussion. Macdonald-ross (talk) 10:05, 7 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

name more pacific words[change source]

how could you use more pacific words i don't understand the words your saying — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.62.237.210 (talk • contribs)

Recent publications[change source]

When new proposals or interpretations are published, we do not use them here until there is some consensus amongst the scientific community. So a new proposal on the classification of dinosaurs can wait for a while to see how it is received by other scientists. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:49, 26 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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