Talk:Ruddy shelduck/GA1

GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Dunkleosteus77 (talk · contribs) 15:54, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

First reading[edit]

Is this written in British English? If so, place the template {{British English}} to the article's talk page

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the taxobox, instead of saying "Pair", say, "Pair of ruddy shelducks"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the lead, instead of saying "...member of the duck, goose and swan family, Anatidae", say, "member of the family Anatidae"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the lead, instead of saying "The call is a loud honking", say, "They have a loud honking call"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Taxonomy section, italicize "ferruginea" since it's talking about the species name

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Description section, instead of saying "The female is similar but has a rather paler, whitish head...", say, "...rather pale..."

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Distribution and habitat section, wikilink "shingle banks"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Distribution and habitat section, "Arrives in north India by October and departs by April" is a fragment, try adding "They" to the beginning of the fragment

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Behaviour section, you misspelled "omniivorous" (you used two i's) yet for some reason it still wikilinks to the article Omnivore. You might want to fix that.

Done (I had piped the link). Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Behaviour section, wikilink "Düden Gölü"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Behaviour section, remove the comma in "The female in particular, approaches..." or add a comma in front of "female"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Behaviour section, wikilink "fledge" or explain in the text (this is optional)

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In the Status section, instead of wikilinking AEWA in the passage "...Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA)...", wikilink, "Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds"

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Citations[edit]

Garcia del Rey (currently ref no. 6) is a deadlink

Replaced. Thank you for taking on this review. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:42, 24 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Final comment[edit]

In the See also section, why did you give a description of the article?

That statement was there before I started expanding the article and I have now removed it as irrelevant. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:38, 25 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This was a short, yet thorough, article so, after this, it'll pass.

Pontic ducks[edit]

See Nat. Hist. of the Ducks &c. for more info on ruddy shelducks possibly being the ducks of Pontus in antiquity who were famous for having become poisonous through consumption of toxic plants and whose blood was used as an antidote serum. — LlywelynII 04:28, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]