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The result was: promoted by Victuallers (talk) 10:49, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

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Ocepeia

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Illustration of the head of Ocepeia

  • ALT1:... that Ocepeia (pictured), is currently the oldest afrotherian mammal known from a skull, and lived about 60 million years ago?
  • Comment: A few other possible images could be used instead, if a reviewer would think they would be more suitable, see
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  • The text of the description section is much to close to the reference section for me to be comfortable with it. Bluemoonset should possibly take a look at it to see how the opensource rules mesh with the copyvio rules. I have pinged him/her.--Kevmin § 00:55, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
  • What part of the section is paraphrased? If it was the beginning or cranium section, it was probably added by
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  • The problem with the duplications is that almost all of the larger (>10 words) paraphrasing is from the Distinguishing anatomical features section, which is very hard to change from what it is in the source. Anyway, from what I am accustomed with, Ocepeia is already expanded enough to be a new DYK without the anatomical features section. However, I will try to change the anatomical features section as much as I can.
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  • IJReid, since the source is CC-licensed, an alternative option would be to include an attribution template from this list to clarify that some of the content here is quite close to that source; you're correct that there is enough original content cited to other sources to pass DYK, once this issue is cleared up (and assuming Kevmin is satisfied that none of the non-free sources are too closely paraphrased?) Nikkimaria (talk) 23:38, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
  • Actually, the section was recently altered by me to fix the paraphrasing issue. It might not be enough, but now it will be much easier to change accordingly. Could
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  • I'd just like to point out that not only has the anatomical section been substantially revised, (while still remaining fairly accurate) but the overall article has increased in length and scope. Also, I don't know if mammal needs to be wikilinked in the hook, as it is a commonly known, while Afrotheria is not, and it might be confusing to have two navigable links next to each other. --Animalparty-- (talk) 02:08, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
With the rewrite and expansion I don't see any problems now. The article is new enough and long enough by far. The image is fair use, and the hooks are both referenced. I don't see nay other policy issues. And the off line references are taken agf. Apologies for the delay in reviewing. --Kevmin § 01:33, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
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