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Nominator: Podzemnik (talk · contribs) 20:47, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Esculenta (talk · contribs) 19:18, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Hello, I'll review this article. I'll have my comments here this weekend. Esculenta (talk) 19:18, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for the delay. Real life and all that… Here is the first part of my review. Overall, the article is quite informative and well-written and most of my comments below are suggestions for minor improvements. I think the only thing that's really missing is a bit more detail about the subspecies. I'll be back later to perform source spotchecks. Esculenta (talk) 17:06, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your review, I really appreciate it! I'm quite busy right now, but I will go through your review and address your suggestions, hopefully next week. Cheers, Podzemnik (talk) 08:04, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

Taxonomy and nomenclature

Description

Distribution and habitat

Behaviour and ecology

Conservation

Relationship with humans

Misc

  • missing information ("missing" = stuff I expected to see in the article but did not):
  • what are the morphological differences between the subspecies? What do their subspecies epithets mean?
  • any chance of including citations to the protologues of these subspecies?
  • the sources all look reliable and appropriate. This is not required to pass GAN, but if you wanted, you could tidy the citations a bit by changing "p." to "pp." where appropriate, consistently using endashes instead of hyphens for page number ranges, and italicising scientific names in the title of sources.
  • It's fine to alter the formatting of the title to meets Wikipedia standards, including changing ALLCAPS to title or sentence case, using an endash for a number range instead of a hyphen, or italicizing scientific names. I'm sure there's a MoS for this somewhere, but the best I could find was this "As with trademarks, Wikipedia does not attempt to emulate any stylistic flourishes used by the cited source's publisher, such as ALL-CAPS, all-lower-case, Small Caps, etc.; use either standard title case or sentence case consistently." from here. More importantly, it does not affect in any way the reader's ability to find or verify the source. Esculenta (talk) 17:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Good to know, I've fixed that in all references. Thanks. Podzemnik (talk) 06:59, 20 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Images & media:
  • File:Walter Lawry Buller (English School).jpg needs "a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States."
  • all other & media have appropriate licenses for use on Wikipedia

@Esculenta: I addressed your review. I've learned a lot, so thank you very much. I can see how I'll do a better job next time. Regards --Podzemnik (talk) 06:36, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • I'm glad this was a pleasant experience, and I hope you will bring additional well-constructed/written species articles to GAN! Wrapping up:
  • Spot checks:
  • there's a little issue with some references that are being listed as "Further reading" rather than as a source. The sources that are used in short citations should be listed in a separate subsection titled "Works cited" or similar; see MOS:REFERENCES for guidance.
  • I verified all statements attributed to current sources #2 ("Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand"), #5 ( "Bellbird/korimako"), and Higgins et al. 2001; no problems noted. With that, I'm placing the article on hold to deal with the minor nits (NZ spelling; references layout; tweaking citation titles is GA-optional). Esculenta (talk) 17:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]