Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Thomasomys ucucha/archive1

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The article was promoted by SandyGeorgia 01:51, 20 August 2010 [1].

Thomasomys ucucha

Featured article candidates/Thomasomys ucucha/archive1

Nominator(s): Ucucha 06:20, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vanity... This is a little rodent from Ecuador with a nice name. There isn't too much to tell about it, but I hope the article covers what there is well. It was improved by a GA review by Sasata. Ucucha 06:20, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 12:55, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

minor comments and support, enjoyed it!
- section Taxonomy: Both are members of Thomasomys, a diverse genus of the northern Andes, occurring from Bolivia to Venezuela. seems like something is missing (but it could be my English)
  - Rewrote it.
- since the etymology of the specific name is discussed, it would be nice to have a sentence for the generic name too.
  - Added.
- it would be better if red links had a small description (e.g. metapodial, mesopterygoid fossa) like the ones some blue links have, wich isn't so nessesary for them (e.g.zygomatic arches (cheekbones) or mandible (lower jaw))
  - Sorry, must have missed those. I think descriptions are good even if the link is blue, so that the reader doesn't need another article to understand this one. In some cases, the description is implicit.
- that's all, thanks for your work. --Egmontaz♤ ^talk 07:48, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- I made this minor edit in ref 9 for consistency with ref 11, feel free to revert for any reason. As soon as I finish translating I may make a couple of comments too. --Egmontaz♤ ^talk 08:21, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks for your support, helpful comments, and the correction in the ref. Also for the Greek translation, though I can't understand too much of it. Ucucha 16:25, 17 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support ~~Comments~~ - just reading through now. I'll jot notes below: Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:04, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

~~subalpine rain forest~~ ~~- shouldn't rainforest be one word?~~

Yes, changed.

~~I must admit I'd never heard the term "runway" for well-worn tracks that critters use.~~

It's in fairly wide use, though perhaps only among specialists. I even have a paper on Australian rats that says "this rat constructs conspicuous burrows that are interconnected by runways." Anyway, it's explained.

I am presuming we no nothing of its diet - it'd be good if there were anything that could be generalised about - eg all other members of the genus or family are granivorous/insectivorous/omnivorous - anything more general we can add? Ditto breeding. If not (as I suspect you would have if you could have) not a deal-breaker.

I've read contradictory information: Tirira says they eat plant material, but somewhere else I read they feed on mycorrhizae. Tirira says they probably breed in the rainy season. I don't think this would add much at all. Ucucha 06:27, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support - This is a seemingly complete article on the subject (this is not my area of expertise, but I can't imagine anything missing from the article). I do have one comment though:
- "It was not found again until 1978 and 1980, when" sounds odd to me. It seems that it'd read better as "not found again until 1978, when over the following two years, Robert...collected 43 specimens" or similar.
Excellent work on this article. Parsecboy (talk) 18:42, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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