Talk:Scleractinia

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Scleractinia/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Sainsf (talk · contribs) 10:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Great job Cwmhiraeth! An awesome article from you as always! I can't resist putting my hands on this.

• The lead is good overall. I think adding The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc surrounded by a ring of tentacles (from "Soft parts") after the second line in lead would make a lucid start.

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• The occurrence in all oceans and the two major groups of corals should be included in lead.

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Expand the lead on reproduction and life cycle.

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• The founding polyp settles on the seabed and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. How about "... secrete calcium carbonate from its base to..."?

I think it does not just secrete calcium carbonate from the base, but also the column. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Then should the fact about "column" not be included in "Soft parts"? I picked up the "base" fact from the line The base of the polyp secretes the stony material from which the coral skeleton is formed but it seems it is only the base that does the secretion. Sorry if you have mentioned the column fact elsewhere in the article and I have missed it. Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 03:52, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

Try the first couple of sentences of Skeleton. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:30, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• Scleractinian corals may be solitary or colonial. Colonies can reach considerable size, consisting of a large number of individual polyps. Is it really required to add this?

Well, its mentioned in the lead, but also ought to be included in the body of the text. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Parts of "Skeleton" are unreferenced.

Added. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• In "Growth", In colonial corals, growth is as a result of the budding of new polyps

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Please link gastrovascular cavity, tentacle (Soft parts), organic compound, invertebrates (Ecology), fertilization, spawning (Life cycle), algae, aragonitic (Evolutionary history), taxonomy (Classification), World Register of Marine Species (Families)

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Stony corals are generally nocturnal, with the polyps retracting into their skeletons during the day, thus maximising the exposure of the zooxanthallae to the light, but a number of exceptions to this general rule occur Any notable examples?

I have rephrased this bit. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:49, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• The biggest problem - Unidentified authors appear everywhere in Classification. For instance Milne Edwards and Haime’s 1857. Who are they? Do add quality information about them.

Done as far as I can, but it is difficult. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:30, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• Duplicate links: polyp, corallite, Ahermatypic corals, coenosarc, Acropora, fossil, monophyletic, families.

Removed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:23, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

A few more comments

• Link bilateral symmetry (Skeleton), trabeculae (classification)

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:30, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• I like the way images have been related to the text, for instance intratentacular and extratentacular budding have been illustrated very well. But I think images are a bit too many here, so let us do away with the less relevant ones. In my opinion,
  • Remove the image of Ctenactis echinata, it is too far below to match with the text on the left and not too necessary. Only the Favites image will do for Ecology

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• • Replace Madracis mirabilis by a relevant image of Acropora species or Pocillopora damicornis or Montastraea annularis to match with Life cycle.

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• • For Evolutionary history, shift the rugose corals image a bit upward so as not to interfere with classification, and select only one other relevant fossil than three, preferably the one that is directly related to the text.

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• I just saw WP:IG. Seeing that I feel it might not be appropriate to include a gallery in the article - it already seems overladen with images.

Removed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

• The image File:An account of the deep-sea Madreporaria collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey ship Investigator (1898) (16744305176).jpg may go with Classification.

Done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:18, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

That is all from me. Awaiting replies. Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 10:37, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for taking on this review. I will work through the points you make. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:51, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Two old issues and a few new ones remain to be resolved. Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 03:52, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

I believe all issues are resolved now. So I shall pass this GA nomination. Cheers! -Sainsf <^>_{Talk all words} 17:09, 4 September 2015 (UTC)