Talk:Scolopendra morsitans

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 01:13, 4 June 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that Tanzanian blue ringleg centipedes inject their prey with a venom which paralyses them and digests their insides so that they can be drunk like a soup? Source: 'venom also contains digestive enzymes used to soften-up the flesh of the prey which is subsequently sucked-up' (Dugon and Arthur 2012)
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5x expanded by Billthekrill (talk). Self-nominated at 06:16, 13 May 2022 (UTC).

• Hi @Billthekrill:, welcome to Wikipedia! This is your first DYK nomination, and you are QPQ exempt. This is very well written. However, unfortunately, it is not large enough of an expansion for DYK. This means that, from the seven days before this nomination, the page's readable prose size was not expanded enough to be fivefold, our threshold for expansions at DYK.

• I left a comment on someone who's probably part of the same project about citations: Template:Did you know nominations/Corporate architecture. It applies to you as well. You don't need to type out every piece of every citation that has a DOI—there are autofill mechanisms for that, and they will save you a lot of time! Citation templates make for better metadata, linkable URLs, and linkable DOIs for those journals.
• I did remove a reference to "exotic-pets.co.uk" as probably unreliable.

However, there is a way we can get this going — but you might be waiting a while. You need to nominate this page for possible inclusion as a good article. GA is a process whereby articles are reviewed for "good article" status based on quality. New GAs that have not appeared at DYK before are eligible for nomination within 7 days of promotion.

• To do this, read the instructions at Wikipedia:Good article nominations/Instructions to nominate the page, then sit back and wait. GA has something of a backlog right now, but efforts are underway to reduce this, which may increase your chances of getting reviewed.
• If the page passes GA (and it's quite close), you will be able to come back and reopen this nomination. I will assist you with the technical side of that, so feel free to ping me when you need help. I cannot, however, review this page for GA as I am reviewing it here.

Next time, to avoid this issue, you should consider incubating all your changes in your sandbox before publishing to article space. That will make the expansion as large as possible in one go. I regret having to fail this nomination but I urge you—command you, even—to nominate for GA. You are pretty much there with this page. Feel free to ask me questions on my talk page if you have questions—I have 29 GAs, so I have gone through that process quite a few times. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 04:21, 31 May 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much User:Sammi Brie!!! Sorry that it took me so long to get back to you but I will go through with the nomination process now! Thanks, Billthekrill (talk) 04:41, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

GA Review

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

Reviewer: Esculenta (talk · contribs) 19:46, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I will take on this review. Should have comments up later this weekend. Esculenta (talk) 19:46, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Ok some initial comments to get started. Overall, the article looks pretty good! Esculenta (talk) 16:35, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

• the lead has many citations, which is a bit unusual. Usually we only cite in the lead if the statements are contentious (likely to get tagged by others) or after direct quotes, neither of which applies here. All of the things mentioned in the lead should also be cited in the main body of the article, but I don't see mention of the common names, nor any discussion on similar-sounding common names in article text (this needs to be fixed)
• interested to know why it's the 'Tanzanian blue ringleg when there's no explanation of why it's associated with this country; for that matter, the word "blue" isn't used in the article either (except as part of the common name)
• "giant red-headed centipede", "Chinese red-headed centipede": our articles on these subjects give the common name without the hyphenation
• "Carl Linneaus" (fix spelling) then a paragraph later "Charles Linnaeus"
• things that should probably be linked: subspecies, Francis Cragin, Kansas, Scolopendra pinguis, tooth plate, suture, Victoria, South Australia, Southwestern Western Australia (is this different than Southwest Australia?), Eritrean highlands, Red Sea Hills, clutch, threat display, Centruroides limpidus, immunity, antibacterial
• are the two subspecies still recognized as taxonomically independent (are these subspecies names still used in recent literature?)
• could you clarify how a single species could be monophyletic?
• "this has prompted the creation of over 50 synonyms for S. morsitans in scientific literature" but none are listed in the taxobox (I understand not wanting to clog the taxobox with 50 obsolete names, but there is the option of using the collapsible list template). Are there any that could be mentioned (in the taxonomy section) that were perhaps commonly used or have an interesting story behind them?
• ”estirases” -> esterases? (and it’s already linked)
• there are several duplicate links throughout the article, please audit

Unfortunately, it's been over 10 days with no response from the nominator, nor have they logged on since early July. Hopefully these comments will be useful for future improvements. Esculenta (talk) 00:10, 7 August 2022 (UTC)