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The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Ian Rose via FACBot (talk) 12 October 2019 [1].

Resolution Guyot

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Nominator(s): Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This article is about one of the three well-studied seamounts in the Mid-Pacific Mountains (the other two are Allison Guyot and Horizon Guyot), all of which were formerly volcanic islands before they first became carbonate platforms - similar to present-day atolls - and later sank below the sea surface for reasons not yet known after a brief period of emergence. There has been a fair amount of research with drill cores which allowed scientists to reconstruct how it may have appeared a hundred million years ago (and from Wikipedia's perspective, to allow some illustration of the long-gone landscapes based on present-day environments with similar traits). Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Imma ping participants - minus coordinators - in the past four FACses on guyots I've done in case they have time and interest to comment on this one. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:38, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I am probably not qualified to do a review, but I just wanted to let you know that this has not been added to the nominations list. Aoba47 (talk) 01:17, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oy. It seems like someone already fixed that mistake; thanks. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 08:43, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
That would be the one like SchroCat, who to is to be plied upon with glory and all hale unto him! ——SerialNumber54129 08:55, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Quite bloody right. I should get a 10% pay rise for that! - SchroCat (talk) 18:10, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ceoil

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Interesting as usual. Will take a few days to leave comments here, but reading slowly through. Ceoil (talk) 08:19, 28 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Were you still planning to comment, Ceoil? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 12:18, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Ian, yes will post tonight. Ceoil (talk) 21:02, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Ceoil (talk) 03:27, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

SC

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Name
Local setting
  • "there is an about 200 metres" this reads rather lumpily like this. Perhaps rephrase as "at one site there is a terrace about 200 metres (660 ft) wide, surmounted by a 25 metres (82 ft) high cliff" or similar
    Reworded this a bit. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "sediments,[17] underwater cameras": needs more than a comma: a semi colon would work well
    Swapped. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "probably originate from" originates, as the "sediment" is singular
    Fixed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • "and which surround a lagoon or tidal flat." This sentence needs a tweak – I've read it a few times and I'm still a bit mystified!
    The source says The internal areas were either a semiprotected lagoon or a shallow peritidal flat. - "peritidal" is covered under "tidal flat" on Wikipedia. I dunno what to write here... Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:38, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    Perhaps split into two sentences, or a quote? Don't necessarily change at my behest, but if someone else mentions it, maybe it should be looked at closer? - SchroCat (talk) 21:12, 30 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
History

Done to the start of the Volcanic phase: more to come. - SchroCat (talk) 15:58, 29 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

- SchroCat (talk) 07:14, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

  • File:Suwarrow_Anchorage_Island.jpg: source link is dead

FunkMonk

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Pyrite is linked twice within the Composition section. You can highlight duplinks with this script:[2] FunkMonk (talk) 13:16, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Remedied this. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:47, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It means egg in Spanish, but why it would be called that is of course the issue. FunkMonk (talk) 13:16, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • I assume this is supposed to be US English, but you have UK metres/kilometres (instead of meters) throughout. The conversion templates probably need the US spelling parameter.
    I don't know English enough to write in one style only, but it is supposed to be in BrEng - I don't see how WP:TIES could apply when it's so tangential to the US. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:29, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Should be fine then. FunkMonk (talk) 13:16, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The link to "organic" should probably be moved up there then. FunkMonk (talk) 13:16, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 13:47, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Looks good, should "resemble these of the former environments" be "those of"? FunkMonk (talk) 18:59, 9 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources review

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  • No spotchecks carried out
  • Links to sources checked & working, per the checker tool
  • Formats:
  • Ref 40 requires pp. not p.
  • Ref 82 same issue
  • Retrieval dates: a single format should be used
  • Quality/reliability: No issues. The sources all appear to meet the standard required by the FA criteria.

Brianboulton (talk) 14:13, 2 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

  • No, it's the dash that indicates a page range. In its absence it's obvious that 40 and 82 are not defining ranges, but each of these refers to more than one page so you need pp. – as indeed you acknowledge with ref 49! Brianboulton (talk) 11:00, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
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