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Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event[edit]

Several editors and I have just gotten this article to GA status, and we want to start the process to begin an FAR. However, I think a strong scientific review will help us tune the article further. There are several issues I personally would like reviewed:

  1. Does it read clearly to a wide range or viewers?
  2. I'm a little bit concerned that the Cause section is a bit unclear.
  3. Without getting in to huge detail, did we talk about extinctions in sufficient detail?
  4. How are the references?

Orangemarlin 17:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Davnel03 13:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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