Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-6025261-20150829073625/@comment-1259419-20151214135413

We will have a LOT more edit warring if the infoboxes have to be canon sizes.

For most species there isn't a good source for its size. Sure, there are websites, posters etc. But they give different sizes for the same species. Example:

Brachiosaurus:


 * Topps Trading card#4: heights of 80 ft
 * TLW DVD Extra Dino Encyclopedia: 23-25 meter (75-82 ft)
 * JPIII poster: 15.30 meter (height), 15.60 meter (length)
 * JPIII Trading Card#61: ~80 feet long (24 meter)
 * JPIII DVD/Bonus/Dino Turnables: height 51 ft, length 52 ft.
 * Lost-World.com: 25 meters (82 feet)

I hope you understand now that there isn't a fixed number that appears in all film media. This is the case for Brachiosaurus and all other dinosaurs. Yeah, also the T. rex and Velociraptors!

If infoboxes must contain film canon lengths, we will have endless battles between editors that use different but all official sources. Plus, we give the false impression that the exact sizes of the film dinosaurs are know, while they are not. (I do not give a dusty fuck if you do not agree with that)

So, we save ourselves a lot of trouble if we just give the current consensus of the animal's sizes.

However, if we have a solid reason to believe that the sizes of an animal differs greatly from the real-life sizes, we can make an exeption. The only exeption I know is the Velociraptor. I will NEVER allow to put 15 meter in the T. rex infobox.

Writing this and searching the lengths took me half an hour. I could have spend on many of the articles that REALLY need work because they make us look pathetic. I really HATE it that I none of you can think of these things yourself.