Talk:Fin whale/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Wolverine XI (talk · contribs) 23:55, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 20:13, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

Comments

• Life history - merge very short paragraphs.

• Weights would make more sense in tonnes and tons rather than N,000 kg and M,000 lbs. I believe this is actually an error in the S.I. but it's certainly needlessly verbose, reducing readability, in ordinary usage.
  • Fixed

• I've fixed some very minor issues of syntax.

• "mediterranean" should have a capital letter and be wikilinked.
  • Fixed

• Ship strike is covered both in 'Ship interaction' and in 'Conservation'.
  • Fixed

Images

• All images are on Commons and are plausibly licensed.

• It would be nice to add images to each whale species in the cladogram (standard image formatting works, you can use |60px or similar).
  • Done

Sources

• I've fixed some minor issues of ref formatting.

• It would be desirable to replace all instances of |author= with |last= |first=.
  • Done

• [6], [10], [31] incomplete.
  • Done

• [7] no point repeating publisher as author. Same for some other institutional refs.
  • Fixed

• [12] is half a note, half a fragmentary ref.
  • Replaced

• [13], [38], [43], [45], [51], 96 missing page number. Please provide ISBNs where not already there.
  • Done

• [28] incomprehensible, and missing page number, ISBN.
  • Removed

• [33] Corporation ain't a surname, and Marshall Cavendish ain't forenames. See also [7] above.
  • Fixed

• [46] incorrectly formatted, also needs |language= and |trans-title= parameters.
  • Fixed

• [59] \ugsburger Allgemeine is newspaper not author; needs language and trans-title.
  • Fixed

• [74] YouTube is not a reliable source, and even if it were, we should never be making inferences about distribution (still less, changes in...) from one or two primary observations. Please remove the text as well as citation.
  • Replaced

• [75] ResearchGate isn't a reliable source, but in this case it actually cites a proper journal paper, please cite that here.
  • Done

• [76] is not correctly formatted, please use template and add |url-status=dead.
  • Done

• [108] please spell out abbr. auth. & pub. as it gets smwht ncmprhnsbl whn abbrvtd.
  • Fixed

• Can't see the point of making [125] a link to Sources when it's only used once; and that's the sole item in Sources, too. Please put it inline like everything else.
  • Fixed

Summary

• OK, this is in a good state as far as text and images are concerned; refs need a bit of tidying up as detailed above. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
  • @Chiswick Chap: Addressed all. Wolverine XI ^{(talk to me)} 13:49, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

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