Talk:Teratoscincus roborowskii

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Review: November 22, 2023. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Teratoscincus roborowskii appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the gecko Teratoscincus roborowskii eats caper fruits and disperses the plant's seeds in its feces?

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GA Review

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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]

Ok, had a read, it sounds pretty good. Here some minor nitpicks below; I'll be back later with more after I check some sources. Esculenta (talk) 17:40, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed the nitpicks below, apart from linking Vladimir's name since it shows up redlinked. Olmagon (talk) 21:44, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

is this the guy – Vsevolod Ivanovich Roborovsky? Esculenta (talk) 01:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not entirely certain to be honest. I mean the name is similar, the country of origin is the same and the years of birth and death also match, but "Vsevolod" and "Vladimir" are pretty different names after all. Given how much the rest of it lines up, I suspect this is the guy but I just can't find the confirmation anywhere that this person ever went by different names. Olmagon (talk) 01:33, 17 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.

This still needs to be done. Esculenta (talk) 01:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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:

Not strictly necessary, but I suggest adding "trans-titles" to the German "Further reading" titles would be helpful
all images are appropriately licensed and have helpful captions
checked some sources and source-text integrity is fine, no too-close paraphrasing, etc.; all sources are scholarly.
Everything else seems to meet the GA criteria, so I'll put this review on hold and give the nominator a chance to finish up the remaining minor items. Esculenta (talk) 01:34, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Translated titles now added to Further Reading Olmagon (talk) 20:29, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Olmagon:, if you could finish up that last point (citing and mentioning the common names in the article), then I think we could wrap up this review. Esculenta (talk) 01:40, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Added it to the bottom of the Taxonomy section. Olmagon (talk) 14:57, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Article promoted! Esculenta (talk) 15:20, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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

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Teratoscincus roborowskii eating a caper fruit

... that the gecko Teratoscincus roborowskii will eat caper fruits and even disperse the plant's seeds in its feces? Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247585
- ALT1: ... that the gecko Teratoscincus roborowskii eats mainly caper fruits in summer and autumn? Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.10363
- Reviewed:
- Comment: It's only my third DYK I do not need QPQ yet

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...

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]