Template:Did you know nominations/Leptodactylus pustulatus
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The result was: promoted by Montanabw(talk) 02:16, 30 July 2016 (UTC)
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Leptodactylus pustulatus edit
... that the female frog Leptodactylus pustulatus seems to provide some parental care?
- Reviewed: La Dori
5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 08:31, 7 July 2016 (UTC).
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- ✓ This article has been expanded from 254 chars to 2398 chars since 17:09, 04 May 2016 (UTC), a 9.44-fold expansion
- ✓ This article meets the DYK criteria at 2398 characters
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- ✓ The probability of copyright violation is 11.5%. (confirm)
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- ✓ The hook ALT0 is an appropriate length at 78 characters
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. Grudgingly, because this is possibly the most boring DYK hook I've ever seen, but looking at the article there's nothing more obvious that jumps out at me. The paper referenced for the hook is behind a paywall, but the cited fact is included in the abstract so no issues there. The "copyvio" spotted by the bot is The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of "least concern"
, a phrase which can't easily be reworded so I wouldn't consider as problematic. GTG. ‑ Iridescent 16:59, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
- FYI, parental care is exceedingly rare among amphibians, so this is really exciting! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:40, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- Sure, but the casual readers on the main page neither know nor care; from the viewpoint of someone with a decent knowledge of animal behaviour but who knows nothing about frogs (a group I imagine roughly correlates with "the entire population of the world minus a few thousand people") "parents have been observed looking after their children" is roughly equivalent to "bears have been observed shitting in the woods". (Add to that that the one piece of frog parental behaviour casual readers are likely to know is the sequence from every single "wonders of nature" show ever made, of the mother frog incubating the tadpoles in her mouth, so I imagine that those who have thought about such things assume that amphibians are if anything more nurturing than other animals.) Note that I'm not opposing this—I can't see any obvious alternative—I just think it will prompt a "who cares?" reaction. ‑ Iridescent 15:29, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
Unlike Iridescent, I am opposing this: it is simply not an interesting hook, and thus does not qualify for DYK. Even the wording, with its "seems to", adds to the problem. If this is "really exciting", then there should be a way to convey this excitement to the reader. I've struck the original hook. BlueMoonset (talk) 03:25, 22 July 2016 (UTC)
- Sure, but the casual readers on the main page neither know nor care; from the viewpoint of someone with a decent knowledge of animal behaviour but who knows nothing about frogs (a group I imagine roughly correlates with "the entire population of the world minus a few thousand people") "parents have been observed looking after their children" is roughly equivalent to "bears have been observed shitting in the woods". (Add to that that the one piece of frog parental behaviour casual readers are likely to know is the sequence from every single "wonders of nature" show ever made, of the mother frog incubating the tadpoles in her mouth, so I imagine that those who have thought about such things assume that amphibians are if anything more nurturing than other animals.) Note that I'm not opposing this—I can't see any obvious alternative—I just think it will prompt a "who cares?" reaction. ‑ Iridescent 15:29, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- FYI, parental care is exceedingly rare among amphibians, so this is really exciting! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:40, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
- ALT1 ... that the male Brazilian Leptodactylus pustulatus frog makes 26 calls per minute?
- ALT2
... that the male Brazilian Leptodactylus pustulatus frogs advertise themselves by making about 26 calls per minute?
