Talk:Coconut crab/GA1

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Reviewer: Mike Searson (talk · contribs) 18:28, 10 October 2011 (UTC) Very good so far! I moved one picture as it was disrupting the flow of text and creating a huge whitespace and changed a few words to allow for better flow. The pictures are all good and appropriate, the only thing I can see right now...and it may not be an issue at all... is aren't they protected from export? I remember these crabs as being popular in the exotic animal trade until the early 1990s. I've been told over the past 15 years that they were protected from importation and have not seen a live one since 1993. A lesser point, but it may be worth mentioning if a source can be found. The only other issue I see (which will not keep it from GA, but may cause problems at FAC), is large page ranges are given on certain references. As a writer, I see no problems with this, as information in one sentence in a wiki article can easily range over as many as 20 pages in a published reliable source, but certain critics will start the arm-waving at FAC if page cites are not kept to a 2 page maximum.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 18:53, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

The export restrictions are touched upon in the "Conservation" section. I think most localities base export restrictions on a combination of carapace length and/or egg-bearing status, like the examples given in the article, but the exact details vary from region to region. I'm not sure how much more can be said here without repeating what's already there, but will have to dig around to find out (perhaps Stemonitis has access to some more information about this?). I agree about giving more specific page citations for sources with longer page ranges, and this will have to be addressed before FAC. Thanks for the copyedit, you cleared up quite a bit of extraneous verbiage! Sasata (talk) 19:39, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, like I said, its a lesser point (live export), but it was how I was more familiar with them...I remember seeing them on an importer's list and the price was cheap...it turned out what he had were actually some other land crab that was bigger than a hermit crab, looked like a Fiddler and had red claws with a purplish shell (I've seen them called "rainbow crabs" and they don't get bigger than 6 inches across). The word in the industry at the time was "they're protected/prohibited". Yeah, I find it easier to do minor fixes as it would take me as long or longer to tell you to fix them. --Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 20:03, 10 October 2011 (UTC)