Template:Did you know nominations/Southern grasshopper mouse
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 23:23, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
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Southern grasshopper mouse
[edit]... that the southern grasshopper mouse frequently feeds on Arizona bark scorpions, seemingly immune to their venom?
- ALT1:... that the southern grasshopper mouse preys on the Arizona bark scorpion even when stung repeatedly in the face?
- Reviewed: Scheduled Monuments in Somerset
5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nominated at 07:48, 26 September 2014 (UTC).
Not a full review, but just pointing out that the wording of the original hook ought to be changed. Biologically speaking, "immune" implies the involvement of the immune system in some way which does not appear to be the case in this mouse's reaction to the venom; it may mean roughly the same thing to a layperson but something like "desensitised to the pain caused by their venom" would be more accurate. 97198 (talk) 03:42, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
- The source used the word "immune" but the safest thing would be to go for ALT1. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
New enough (expansion took place 25 September, nominated 26 September) long enough (prose character count jumped from approximately 341 to 2169). Article is well sourced and neutral. The hook is very interesting and well sourced. There doesn't appear to be any copyvio or close paraphrasing. I AGF on the offline sources in the article. Quid pro quo has been done. It would be nice to have included some of the other information about it's behavior from the sources (i.e. driving other rodents out of burrows) but the article is definitely good enough for DYK. G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 01:11, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
