Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of talpids/archive1

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The list was promoted by Giants2008 via FACBot (talk) 00:25, 13 May 2024 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of talpids

Featured list candidates/List of talpids/archive1

Nominator(s): Pres N 15:44, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

We continue through animals with #37 in our perpetual series of mammals lists: moles! Also shrew moles and desmans, collectively making up the family Talpidae. This is the second of four families of the order Eulipotyphla, and is the last easy one at 45 species. These guys are pretty well-known, despite living largely underground, though unfortunately we're missing free images for mostof the Asian ones. As always, this list follows the pattern of the previous lists and reflects previous FLC comments. Thanks for reviewing! --Pres N 15:44, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pseud 14

Non-expert prose review.

It might be worth linking invertebrates, amphibians, crustaceans and fungi.
That's all I could find really. It's a very informative and well-structured list, as one would expect with your species-related work. Pseud 14 (talk) 17:37, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Pseud 14: Done, thanks! --Pres N 22:59, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Pseud 14 (talk) 23:01, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MPGuy2824

"A member of this family is called an talpid" It should be "a talpid", right?
Didn't see other problems. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:26, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@MPGuy2824: Fixed, thanks! --Pres N 12:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. You might want to check if one of the photos in wikilovesinat is useful. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 01:29, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 19:13, 8 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

AK

"member of this...desmans." I feel like this needs a different conjunction.
"Talpidae is one of four families in the order Eulipotyphla." Kind of repetitive, any way to just add the "one of four" to the first sentence?
"They are found" Doesn't match the previous sentence, which is talking about the singular Talpidae.
Why a period in the diet section for American shrew mole?
There's a couple images on Commons for Urotrichus talpoides; they're of recently dead individuals, but still better than the illustration imo.
Everything else seems fine, although I'm starting to think that the best use of WMF's funds might just be sending someone to Southeast Asia and having them take photos of anything that moves. AryKun (talk) 08:17, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@AryKun: Not sure what you meant by the first one, but done for the rest. I agree on the images- the worst part is that a bunch of the larger animals do have images on inaturalist, but they're not free-use... --Pres N 21:19, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The first comment seems to be one of those things I say at 2 am that even I can't make sense of later; everything else is fine, so support on prose. You can just ask someone on iNaturalist if they can change their license from the default CC-BY-NC to CC-BY and they'll usually do it. I've gotten pretty decent photos for several birds that way and from what I've seen, although observers who are professional photographers are a bit more reticent about giving people carte blanche to use their photos commercially, those who are just amateurs or scientists will usually be happy to help. AryKun (talk) 03:07, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dylan620

Placeholder for image review; will start looking at this shortly. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 22:10, 20 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Image review passes, details below:

All images presently used in the listicle contribute encyclopedic value to it.
All images are licensed for either PD or CC, with several having been verified via VRT.
All images have suitable alt text. I would described the mole photographed in File:Hairy-tailed Mole iNaturalist.jpg as more gray than black, but that's an exceedingly minor nitpick and could easily just be how my own eyes are perceiving the color.
Sources for all images check out. I did go over to Commons to add archived URLs for an image whose source links were dead; see my recent edits there.

Support on images. Dylan620 (he/him • talk • edits) 00:50, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source review – All of the references appear to be reliable and well-formatted. Giants2008 (Talk) 21:14, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FLC/ar, and leave the {{featured list candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. Giants2008 (Talk) 22:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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