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GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Teratoscincus roborowskii/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Esculenta (talk · contribs) 17:56, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I'll review this article. Should some comments up within a couple of days. Esculenta (talk) 17:56, 6 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

  • neither of the two common names is mentioned again in the article; anything in the lead also needs to be in the main text of the article, sourced.
  • link shrubland, seed dispersal, predation, burrow
  • might want to reword the lingering GPT-residue, i.e. "particularly notable", "strengthening the idea"

Taxonomy

  • link first described, Vladimir Ivanovich Roborovski, molecular, morphological
  • "was originally reported to be collected from" -> "was originally reported to be have been collected from"

Distribution and habitat

  • avoid starting paragraphs (and sentences) with an abbreviation
  • link endemic
  • "Dead wood has been noted as" -> "Dead wood is"

Behaviour and ecology

  • looks like article spelling is in Am. Eng., so this should be "Behavior"
  • "upper surface which are lost with age", "It is a ground-dwelling species which forages" which->that
  • link defensive behavior and escape behavior
  • "turning a full circle whilst holding a flashlight" since this is Am. Eng. (I think), "while" would be preferred to "whilst"

Additional comments:

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton talk 18:49, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Teratoscincus roborowskii eating a caper fruit
Teratoscincus roborowskii eating a caper fruit

Improved to Good Article status by Olmagon (talk). Self-nominated at 22:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Teratoscincus roborowskii; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

  • Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hooks are interesting and sourced. QPQ not needed. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 23:48, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Olmagon: I think a link to Caper might be a good idea. What do you think? Thriley (talk) 23:51, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Capers do not grow in this area of China...

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I can find no record of any Caprinus specie growing in the western desserts of China. However, there is a Caper Spurge, Euphorbia lathyrus, that does. And is also known as the “True Caper” in Chinese, apparently. 2A00:23C7:CA05:8601:70FA:4D07:D00A:A9AF (talk) 10:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giac106/6780308
Very first paragraph in this paper details the taxonomic situation and range of Capparis spinosa. Also all the sources used in this page about the gecko eating capers mention the scientific name Capparis spinosa. Olmagon (talk) 11:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]