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Aethia

Did a major/nearly-complete rewrite using peer-reviewed publications. Comments welcome. Albnd (talk) 14:34, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Nice work expanding it. The question is where do you want to take this? I'm assuming to a GA, in which case you'll need to add more information. The first thing that needs to be added is an intro before the first heading to summarise everything below. More generally, things that are currently one lines can be expanded, such as diet, sociality, and the like. Also worth including is relationship with humans and conservation, the following being a good source for one species and place to start...

• Williams, J.C., Byrd G.V.& Konyukhov, N.B. (2003) Whiskered Auklets Aethia pygmaea, foxes, humans and how to right a wrong. 'Marine Ornithology 31: 175-180 [1]

Also information on natural predators and and movements or migrations they may undertake. Sabine's Sunbird talk 22:17, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the great feedback! I'll work on this over the holidays. Any thoughts on what information should be placed in the articles specific to the species vs. in the genus would be appreciated. Albnd (talk) 00:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

A comment on formatting, footnotes should go after punctuation, not before it. With regards to what to include in the genus articles versus species ones, it is a matter of personal judgement. Where details are roughly the same for the whole genus this can easily be dealt with by stating the fact (Aethia aucklets are colonial); where you deal with range (for example the sizes of the largest colonies), use the largest and smallest as named examples (the colonies of X Aucklet have up to 25,000 species, whereas the Y Aucklet can number as high as 1,000,000). Obviously don't do this if there is a wide overlap (like in incubation times). For an idea of how to write articles on higher level taxa than species, check out Procellariidae and Albatross. Sabine's Sunbird talk 01:44, 18 December 2007 (UTC)