Wikipedia:Peer review/List of unusual animal anecdotes/archive1
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I've listed this article for peer review because there has to be some other anecdotes missing and this article is definitely the kind that requires some crowd sourcing. I know the formatting is also probably a bit rough and could be polished.
Thanks, RyanHoliday (talk) 01:56, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement. If you want more comments, please ask here.
- I am not clear how the anecdotes are selected / qualify for inclusion in this list. In ancient Rome, it was not unusual to slaughter wild animals in the circuses. Or why include literature and Schrodinger's cat, when these are otherwise real stories?
- Article should have a picture in the lead per WP:LEAD - seems like there could more images.
- I have no idea what this means They may not appear on other Wikipedia articles due to difficulty of categorizing.
- Also the lead has no references, but should for things that are not in the rest of the article
- Historical as a header and "In history" as a subheader makes no sense to me.
- The prophet Elisha was almost cetainly not alive around 0 BC/AD
- Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. Book refs need publisher date, etc. See WP:CITE and WP:V
- Some of the sources seem not to meet WP:RS - what makes RyanHoliday.net a reliable source, as one example?
Hope this helps. If my comments are useful, please consider peer reviewing an article, especially one at Wikipedia:Peer review/backlog (which is how I found this article). Yours, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 03:19, 18 September 2008 (UTC)