Wikipedia:Peer review/Onychodus/archive1
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I've listed this article for peer review because…
I want to see if it is ready for Feature Article nomination. I except any kind of criticism to better this article.
Thanks, Liopleurodon93 (talk) 15:36, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Ruhrfisch comments: I think it needs some work for FA. Very briefly, here are some suggestions for improvement. If you want more comments, please ask here.
- What is here is nice, but it is a bit short. One of the criteria for FA is comprehensiveness, so shortness in an article may be a sign of something missing. There are five FA articles in Category:FA-Class Palaeontology articles that may be good models for ideas and examples to follow. Several dinosaur articles are also FA.
- The lead is fairly short and has two paragraphs with only two sentences each - could these be expanded or perhaps combined? Nothing important should be in the lead only - since it is a summary, it should all be repeated in the body of the article itself. My rule of thumb is to include every header in the lead in some way. Please see WP:LEAD
- Article needs more references, for example The upper jaw, containing 30 teeth which decrease in size posteriorly, is well preserved in many individuals. Juveniles have six tusks, while adults have three. or The group of onychodontiformes, described in 1973 by the late Dr. Mahala Andrews, was characterized by a highly kinetic skull and tusk-like teeth. My rule of thumb is that every quote or attribution, every statistic, every extraordinary claim and every paragraph needs a ref.
- Article uses two different styles of refs - not allowed at FAC. I think most editors prefer the inline linked number, but the (Author, date) is fine too, just can't use both. And don't link the years.
- Internet refs need URL, title, author if known, publisher and date accessed. Book refs need publisher, location, ISBN if the book has one. {{cite web}} and other cite templates may be helpful. See WP:CITE and WP:V
- Images have some odd source and license issues. Grove Karl Gilbert died in 1918, so the license on Image:Plate of the Lower Jaw of Onychodus sigmoides Newberry.png (100 years after death of author) is wrong - it is PD old (pre 1923 publication in the US). Image:Sigmoid Tooth of Onychodus.png gives no source - one is needed at FAC. Image:Onychodus Skull Diagram.jpg says "own work, edited from another skull diagram of Onychodus" which makes it a derivative work, not own work, but the source is not identified.
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 ><>°° 03:48, 19 August 2008 (UTC)