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Homo affinis erectus

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I was still editing the article and didn't have time to correct the link to journal Nature, which I believe is a reliable source. Could you reconsider your reversion with the correct link, which would be https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08681-0 ?--Ceraunnos (talk) 15:07, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceraunnos: it's not that it wasn't reliable, it's that the information is more appropriate on Homo antecessor. There are a lot of random fossils around the world with affinities to H. erectus. In this edit I've added that source to the H. antecessor article Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 15:12, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Well: I leave it to your discretion, but Nature says explicitly that most of the morphological features are primitive for the Homo clade and do not show the modern appearance exhibited by the Homo antecessor. Furthermore, ATE7-1 shows a greater derivation in the nasoalveolar region than Dmanisi and other roughly contemporary hominins, as explained by the Atapuerca team itself, using both classical methods and advanced imaging techniques, including microtomography (mCT).: https://www.museoevolucionhumana.com/es/blog-cientifico/atapuerca-descubre-el-rostro-humano-mas-antiguo-de-europa-occidental But, as I said, I leave it to your discretion. Ceraunnos (talk) 15:27, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 March newsletter

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The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.

Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:12, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Original Barnstar
Very nice getting to talk with you yesterday! Good luck with Peking Man! And don't be afraid to reach out :) Fathoms Below (talk) 14:51, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey @Fathoms Below: it was cool (and a little surreal) putting a face to a name. Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 17:19, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Fathoms Below: email my junk account Dunkleosteus7777@gmail.com, I forgot to exchange real contact info with you Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 01:08, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just sent an email! Fathoms Below (talk) 18:03, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've now also sent a related email to your junk account! Pharos (talk) 14:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Kabwe 1

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Kabwe 1 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 12:04, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Kabwe 1

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The article Kabwe 1 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article needs changes or clarifications to meet the good article criteria. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Kabwe 1 and Talk:Kabwe 1/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 13:23, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Kabwe 1

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The article Kabwe 1 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Kabwe 1 for comments about the article, and Talk:Kabwe 1/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! 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. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 20:03, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 May newsletter

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The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:

In addition, we would like to recognize Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Peer Review

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Hello, noting your excellent biology FAs, I was wondering if you had any time to leave some comments at my PR for Flower. Cheers, Dracophyllum, (1 PR) 00:00, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if I'll have enough time to do a full review, but I can leave a few comments later in the week Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 04:13, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Homo heidelbergensis, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Samu.

(Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 07:56, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Sima de los Huesos hominins

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sima de los Huesos hominins you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 21:42, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

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Precious
Nine years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:18, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Sima de los Huesos hominins

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The article Sima de los Huesos hominins you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sima de los Huesos hominins for comments about the article, and Talk:Sima de los Huesos hominins/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! 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. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jens Lallensack -- Jens Lallensack (talk) 18:23, 14 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 July newsletter

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The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:

Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:49, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your discord account seems to have been hacked

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Not sure if you're already aware but your discord account appears to have been hacked. It was spamming NFSW discord invites in the Wikiproject Paleontology discord, and unfortunately had to be banned. Hemiauchenia (talk) 13:54, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah that's what I get for using the same exact username and password for everything (especially after I got hacked on another app a few months back). My account did that on every channel of every server I was on and every DM I ever opened. I'm setting up dual authentication on everything now. Speaking of which, do you know if Wikipedia has a dual authentication option? 17:12, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) The relevant page is at Help:Two-factor authentication if you'd like to use 2FA to log into your account. Since you don't have it enabled by default, you would have to ask at Metawiki to have enabled. Fathoms Below (talk) 17:21, 18 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Collaboration

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Hello. Would you like to collab with me on great white shark for FAC? It doesn't have to be right away. What are your current plans? LittleJerry (talk) 22:56, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think I'll be free enough to commit to any projects for a while. Case in point it took me a week to respond Dunkleosteus77 (talk) 13:26, 7 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
K. LittleJerry (talk) 21:41, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 September newsletter

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The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 98 good articles, 9 good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges – Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), Frostly (talk · contribs), Guerillero (talk · contribs) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) – are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!

If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:47, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FA review of Nihilism

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Hello Dunkleosteus77 and thanks for your FA review of Mind a while back. I was wondering whether you might also be interested in reviewing the article Nihilism since the nomination hasn't attracted much attention so far, see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Nihilism/archive1. Thank you for taking a look and please feel under no obligation if now is not a good time. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:49, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]