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 (Discord server). 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: 62.5% complete 500 good articles: 58% complete 10% of all articles rated B-class or better: 70.8% complete 20,000 articles rated Start-class or better: 47.1% complete Revision and approval of the 25 taxon articles that were promoted to featured article status before 2010: 8% complete Assessment progression 3.4% List-Class 58.3% Stub-Class 23.1% Start-Class 8.7% C-Class 4.7% B-Class 1.2% GA-Class 0.6% FA-Class 0.1% remaining Article alerts Hot articles 31 edits Taxonomy of Allosaurus 23 edits Denisovan 18 edits Homotherium 17 edits Ajax Mine Fossil Reef 15 edits Barinasuchus 14 edits Arctotherium 14 edits Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum 12 edits Allosaurus 11 edits Arctodus 11 edits Richards Spur These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 5 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Today's featured articles 19 Aug 2025 – Proceratosaurus (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb Did you know 29 Jul 2025 – Photinia pageae (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion 18 Jul 2025 – Oemleria janhartfordae (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion 27 Jun 2025 – Palaeocarpinus (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kevmin (t · c); see discussion Featured article candidates 16 Jun 2025 – Sima de los Huesos hominins (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 20 Jul 2025 – Eocarcharia (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); start discussion 23 Apr 2025 – Plagiolophus (mammal) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion 07 Feb 2025 – Amphimerycidae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion Good topic candidates 23 May 2025 – Apatosaurinae (talk · edit · hist) was GT nominated by Augustios Paleo (t · c); see discussion Peer reviews 05 Jul 2025 – Megalneusaurus (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Amirani1746 (t · c); see discussion Articles to be merged 02 Aug 2025 – Amurosaurus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Sahaliyania by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion 08 Jul 2025 – Sahaliyania (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Amurosaurus by FunkMonk (t · c); see discussion Articles to be split 21 Aug 2023 – Kota Formation (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Fritzmann2002 (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 17 Jul 2025 – Draft:Palaeo-bioinspiration (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Annabelle Aish (t · c) was declined by Ldm1954 (t · c) on 04 Aug 2025 Article quality statistics Palaeontology articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 4 26 22 73 125 FL 1 1 FM 13 13 GA 8 43 32 207 290 B 18 172 164 805 1,159 C 6 155 269 1,714 2,144 Start 75 378 5,238 5,691 Stub 4 162 14,219 14,385 List 4 24 55 757 840 Category 5,711 5,711 Disambig 24 24 File 53 53 Portal 693 693 Project 63 63 Redirect 1,908 1,908 Template 483 483 Other 7 7 Assessed 40 500 1,082 23,013 8,955 33,590 Unassessed 1 1 Total 40 500 1,082 23,013 8,955 1 33,591 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 127,413 Ω = 5.35