Talk:Thectardis

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I've rated this article as "A" class as I can't see much more that can be done to it, short of adding an image. Verisimilus T 21:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That is very generous, isn't there a more formal process for awarding an A class? I would expect that without pictures it may scrape a B class. Maybe a timeline and some diagrams would then allow it to get a GA rating as well. That would convince me more that it deserved that "A". Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:33, 30 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article is only about 250 words long, and while it is unlikely that this article will ever be very long, I would only rate it at present as 'start class'. -- Donald Albury 12:19, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The "A" reflects the fact that there's nothing that can be done to improve the article, short though it may be. There simply aren't the sources to provide facts.
Is it worth worrying about what letter appears on the talk page of an article that's viewed about twice a day?

Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 18:59, 1 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'll just point you to the suggested procedure for assigning "A" class at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/A-Class criteria. -- Donald Albury 17:37, 2 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would be very excited to see an article that I started get a deserved A rating, however in this case it does not meet the standard as pointed out by Donald. Although the text is complete enough we still need to improve the appearance with a picture or two. If Martin can get a couple of others to support an A rating then the formal procedure may be satisfied. The article rating is important because an A rating would almost certainly get it as an inclusion on a CD of the encyclopedia. Perhaps we need a DYK to raise the hit count a bit. It is disappointing to see that an article I created on a dance crew is 1000 times as popular! Graeme Bartlett (talk) 04:29, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unless we can expand the article more than 5 times within a five-day period, DYK is out. I also regret the pop culture thing, but I don't know what we can do about it. -- Donald Albury 14:04, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Decayed remains of Petalonamids?

"(Thectardis) Specimens illustrating the decay spectrum of Ediacaran fronds and the Thectardis end member. Thectardis is a highly effaced remnant of some frondose Ediacaran organism representing a stage of extreme decay, where nearly all body morphology is gone and all that remains are microbial mats veiling the smoothed carcass." from figure 6 at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282490761_A_New_Ecological_Model_for_the_565Ma_Ediacaran_Biota_of_Mistaken_Point_Newfoundland Rugoconites Tenuirugosus (talk) 20:43, 2 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Size?

It would be good to have some indication of the range of sizes of these organisms

Gilgamesh4 (talk) 23:03, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]