Talk:List of prehistoric starfish genera

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Latest comment: 15 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

ok, so i've spent roughtly an hour editing this article and i'd like to ask a few things:

What's the consensus on breaking the table up into groups of 10, or maybe for each letter? i think it would make things easier to view/work with
Note that some articles in the list have no taxobox. they therefore have no genus authority, so i wouldn't be willing to add "valid" to the table until authorship was provided.
I also came across the List of Prehistoric Brittlestars and...

I saw several articles (not to mention redlinks) that aren't part of this list, should they be?
What about merging the two lists? does the difference between fossil brittle star genera make it work splitting them into another article altogether?

i'm not an expert on this subject so i'm hoping someone will come along and clarify things for me. thanks, Ryan shell (talk) 04:29, 4 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

The table was planned to be filled in by an automated bot using the Paleobiology Database. User:ThaddeusB and I collaborated for a significant period of time on the project, however, an extremely disruptive anonymous user hijacked our bot approval thread. He adamantly opposed the bot for reasons he never fully made clear and the Bot Approval discussion degenerated into a screamfest. Afterwards all discussion regarding the bot project and by extension the completion of the tables ceased. The whole thing is in development hell right now.

Brittle stars are a separate group of echinoderms from starfish (ophiuroids as opposed to asteroids), so that split is appropriate. Splitting the longer lists (eg alphabetically) may be appropriate, although that would lessen the utility of the table's sorting feature, so I'm dubious about that. Thanks for showing interest in such obscure articles! :D Abyssal (talk) 04:48, 4 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

ok, thnaks. too bad about the bot- sounds like could've made life easier Ryan shell (talk) 18:37, 4 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

I intend to approach Thad about resuming it soon. It'll come to fruition eventually in all liklihood, the collapse of the bot approval discussion was just an annoying delay. :) Abyssal (talk) 18:43, 4 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

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