Talk:Wildebeest/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Reid,iain james (talk · contribs) 14:20, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nice Article, happy to take up its review. IJReid (talk) 14:20, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

First comments

Just a comment to help laymen who have not seen the species articles, which range on the range map is for which species.
Nothing important, but could an automatic taxon box be added to replace the normal one.

I dislike automatic taxoboxes. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

why is there no fossil range in the taxon box, in the article is says how old fossils are.
You cannot be certain that it was the blue wildebeest that changed the least from the species common ancestor, so I suggest the wording is changed slightly.

I have left this as it was. Other parts of the article make it clear that the black wildebeest diverged and the blue changed little from the ancestral form. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"In East Africa, the blue wildebeest is the most abundant big game species, " Should be in the article, which means removing the ref. Also, link game (food).
"Some populations perform " should state of which species, as the blue wildebeest is mentioned in the previous sentence, and the black in the end of this sentence.
The sectioning of the article does not seem standard. "Migration" should go inside "Distribution"; "Differences" should go directly beneath "Genetics" and be grouped with "Taxonomy" and the two under "Classification"; and "Ecology" can be used over "Interactions" and "Breeding".
"Differences between blue ..." should be renamed "Differences between species"
why is the scientific name of the hirola in brackets behind the common when it is not for the topi etc.

All the species mentioned after the hirola are in the genus Damaliscus and I have rephrased the sentence to clarify this. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Where it lives alongside the blue wildebeest, the two can hybridise, " The black wildebeest is not mentioned at all in the paragraph, which needs to be fixed.

All for now, IJReid (talk) 14:20, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking on this review. I think I have dealt with all the points you raise. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:03, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go :) IJReid (talk) 20:31, 14 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]