Talk:Tylocephale

GA Review

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Reviewer: ZooBlazer (talk · contribs) 22:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I'd be happy to review this for you. I should have my initial comments posted tomorrow. -- ZooBlazer^talk 22:46, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

1. Is it well written?

   A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:

   B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:

2. Is it verifiable with no original research?

   A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:

   B. All in-line citations are from reliable sources, including those for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines:

   C. It contains no original research:

   D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:

3. Is it broad in its coverage?

   A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

   B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):

4. Is it neutral?

   It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:

5. Is it stable?

   It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:

6. Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?

   A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:

   B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:

7. Overall:

   Pass or Fail:

Lead

• Usually the lead and infobox aren't supposed to have citations since they're summaries of the rest of the article. As a result, you can remove the citation since you have the name meaning cited in the body of the article.

Discovery and naming

• Link taxa
• Link dinosaur

Classication

• Link cladistic
• Link phylogenetic

Skull and ornamentation

• Probably a nitpick since this article is in great shape already, but maybe try to make it so The type, and only known, specimen consists of a skull lacking the braincase, palate, and anterior parts of the skull doesn't have so many commas, specifically the beginning of the sentence can be slightly reworded.
• Link squamosal
• Notably, the dome is extremely high domed - is there a better way to word this so you're not saying dome so much?
• Can you link quadrates?
• jugals is the widest point of the skull if it's plural, should it be jugals are?

Tooth and mandible

• Should it be teeth and mandible?
• I assume "preserced" is supposed to be "preserved"?
• The teeth have been heavily eroded due to outside factors like erosion and taphonomy. - Slightly rewrite to avoid using eroded and erosion together in this instance.
• The mandibular teeth, seven in number, have high crowns and arched cutting surfaces. The mandible is very poorly preserved, consisting only of the posterior portions. The mandible has a weakly-elevated - You have "the mandibular/the mandible" starting three straight sentences.

Diet

• leaves, seeds, fruit and insects - comma after fruit to be consistent with comma use throughout the rest of the article

Dome function

• Link keratin
• dome was not purely for display or species recognition but for agonistic - comma after recognition

Paleoenvironment

• In addition, structureless, medium-grained, fine-grained and - comma after fine-grained
• Unlink Gobipipus unless you think an article will be made soon for it.

Images

• Images appear to be properly licensed
• Something I've recently been told that I'll pass on to you. Image captions should be fully linked, regardless of if any of the words are already linked elsewhere in the article.

References

• I will do ref checks once you address the things above.
• Earwig turned up no issues
• Footnote numbers are accurate as of this edit
  • Ref #2: the catalogue number was ZPAL MgD-I/105 -  Confirmed
  • Ref #6: Tylocephale was placed in an order called Pachycephalosauria, which also included Stegoceras and Pachycephalosaurus -  Confirmed
  • Ref #12: "Within Pachycephalosauria, the phylogenetic position of Tylocephale and other genera are in flux due to a lack of many well-preserved specimens" -  Confirmed
  • Ref #29: the dome was likely used for head-butting -  Confirmed
  • Refa #31 and #32: "The Barun Goyot Formation, based on sediments, is regarded as Late Cretaceous in age" -  Confirmed

Comments

Of the articles I've done GA reviews for so far, this is probably the one most well written and in the best shape. A lot of the issues were very minor, mostly just needing some extra links or slightly rewording sentences. Great job! -- ZooBlazer^talk 05:35, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! All suggestions with the exception of the Gobipipus one have been implemented. I’ll make a stub for that bird now. AFH (talk) 13:05, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Everything looks good, so I'm happy to promote this to GA. Congrats! -- ZooBlazer^talk 16:30, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:42, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

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• Comment or view
• Article history

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• ... that Tylocephale possibly used their domed skulls to fight one another? Source: Snively, E., & Cox, A. (2008). Structural mechanics of pachycephalosaur crania permitted head-butting behavior. Palaeontologia Electronica, 11(1), 3A. Chicago
  • Reviewed:

Improved to Good Article status by Augustios Paleo (talk). Self-nominated at 17:25, 21 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Tylocephale; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Recently passed GAN and very exhaustive. Sources check in progress, consider archiving the sources. What's "sayr", I haven't checked if this question was raised earlier but if it's not a typo it would be helpful to define or link the term. More later.el.ziade (talkallam) 18:33, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: - N/A
Overall: * Overall very compelling read, very well referenced, no copyvios detected.

• QPQ not required.
• I leave it to the curators to decide if it is okay to include in the hook the adverb "possibly" and advance a proposition that is potentially true or valid nut not necessarily certain: " possibly used their domed skulls to fight one another".
• Repetition: " The jugals are the widest point of the skull and triangular in cross-section." and "Tylocephale’s jugals have giant, protruding, and irregularly spaced tubers, which were the widest point of the skull."
• Please address the "sayr" question above, I have no other comment. Thank you for the great work. el.ziade (talkallam) 21:58, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

• Nominator addressed concerns. Personally I would have preferred an established fact for a hook. el.ziade (talkallam) 13:32, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

• This is the most likely purpose and there is evidence for this behaviour in other pachycephalosaurs.