January 2008 (UTC) 

  
 ==List of prehistoric annelids, List of prehistoric foraminiferans, List of prehistoric gastropods, List of prehistoric echinoderms all are, or were, punctuated with numerous eelpout images== 
 Hi Abyssal, How are you? Happy New Year. My question and comment is the same as Writtenonsand's comment for the list of prehistoric sponges. I also feel that is not a good idea to place irrelevant images in articles, even as supposed "temporary" place holders. (the annelid eelpout images had already been there for a month, which is not very temporary.) As Writtenonsand said, this kind of thing is very confusing, and it has an unfortunate superficial resemblance to vandalism, which is what I thought it was. I spent a fair bit of time last night and this morning taking these images out of the gastropod and the annelid articles. If you are working on an article and it is not yet in fit state to be posted, it can be put together on one of your user pages, and then posted once it is in decent shape. Or, if you need to have a place holder on an already posted page, it could perhaps  be a row of dots or something similar which is less eye-catching and has no actual meaningful content. And you could try to make sure that it really is temporary, in other words make it disappear the next day or so.  

 Also I wanted to say that the "prehistoric" gastropod list already contains many genera which are still extant. I am going to have to go through and take the daggers off of all the ones that I recognize, but there will be many more that I don't recognize, so that is a problem too. 

 Plus  to be honest, the functionality of the article is a bit questionable: a list of all gastropod genera living and fossil would be so huge as to be unwieldy, the gastropods being the largest class of invertebrates other than the insects.   16:51, 20