Carletonomys has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | ||||||||||
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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
September 10, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that
Carletonomys, a
rodent related to modern
rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over
1 million year old
silt deposits in
Argentina? |
Reviewer: Sasata ( talk) 16:55, 25 December 2009 (UTC) Hi Ucucha, I will review this rat article. Hopefully I'll have some notes up later tonight. Sasata ( talk) 16:55, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Ok, some starter comments: Sasata ( talk) 07:11, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
*imo, the lead should mention the word extinct, a fact which is currently only implied
*"and is distinctive in lacking the ridge that connects the front to the middle part of the molar," Why is this distinctive? Do other oryzomyine rodents have the ridge?
*"C. cailoi was discovered in 1998" should avoid starting sentences, let alone paragraphs, with abbreviations. Two other occurrences as well.
*"It is now in the collections of the Museo de La Plata as specimen MLP 98-I-15-1." Clarify "it"; also, does the average Wikipedia reader really need to know what the specimen # is?
*link
specific name
*"C. cailoi has a number of features that suggest a relation to a group of oryzomyine rodents" Maybe this sentence would be more accurate if it started something like "The jawbone of C. caloi..." (?)
*"... which indicate specializations towards a semiaquatic lifestyle." Could you elaborate a bit on how tooth morphology can be correlated to lifestyle? I think it's worthwhile to add an extra sentence or two about this, as it helps give context to the topic
*"It shows the most similarity to Noronhomys and Holochilus, so much so that Pardiñas considered placing it in either of these two genera, but its distinctive morphological features justify placement in a separate genus." what are these distinct morphological features?
*"This group of genera includes only a small part of the diversity of the tribe Oryzomyini, which includes over a hundred species distributed mainly in South America, including nearby islands such as the Galápagos Islands and some of the Antilles." This sentence has includes/including three times.
*any possibility of an extant closely-related rat picture somewhere in the article? How about a map of South America with the collection location highlighted?
*insert non-breaking spaces in short-form Latin binomials to avoid line wraps.
*maybe wlink
character (biology)?
*"A shallow anteromedian flexus is present, superficially dividing the anterior cusp (anterocone)." Yikes - a jargon blast with only redlinks - help please. The whole second paragraph of the description section could use a jargon overhaul...
*wlink
wetland
Thanks for the comments so far! Ucucha 22:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I think the article meets all of the GA criteria below. No problems were found with dabs or links. I'll trust you to fix up that lead sentence, and will promote Carletonomys at this time. Cheers, Sasata ( talk) 06:10, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
Carletonomys has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. | ||||||||||
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Main Page in the "
Did you know?" column on
September 10, 2009. The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that
Carletonomys, a
rodent related to modern
rice rats, is known only from one incomplete upper jaw from over
1 million year old
silt deposits in
Argentina? |
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Reviewer: Sasata ( talk) 16:55, 25 December 2009 (UTC) Hi Ucucha, I will review this rat article. Hopefully I'll have some notes up later tonight. Sasata ( talk) 16:55, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Ok, some starter comments: Sasata ( talk) 07:11, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
*imo, the lead should mention the word extinct, a fact which is currently only implied
*"and is distinctive in lacking the ridge that connects the front to the middle part of the molar," Why is this distinctive? Do other oryzomyine rodents have the ridge?
*"C. cailoi was discovered in 1998" should avoid starting sentences, let alone paragraphs, with abbreviations. Two other occurrences as well.
*"It is now in the collections of the Museo de La Plata as specimen MLP 98-I-15-1." Clarify "it"; also, does the average Wikipedia reader really need to know what the specimen # is?
*link
specific name
*"C. cailoi has a number of features that suggest a relation to a group of oryzomyine rodents" Maybe this sentence would be more accurate if it started something like "The jawbone of C. caloi..." (?)
*"... which indicate specializations towards a semiaquatic lifestyle." Could you elaborate a bit on how tooth morphology can be correlated to lifestyle? I think it's worthwhile to add an extra sentence or two about this, as it helps give context to the topic
*"It shows the most similarity to Noronhomys and Holochilus, so much so that Pardiñas considered placing it in either of these two genera, but its distinctive morphological features justify placement in a separate genus." what are these distinct morphological features?
*"This group of genera includes only a small part of the diversity of the tribe Oryzomyini, which includes over a hundred species distributed mainly in South America, including nearby islands such as the Galápagos Islands and some of the Antilles." This sentence has includes/including three times.
*any possibility of an extant closely-related rat picture somewhere in the article? How about a map of South America with the collection location highlighted?
*insert non-breaking spaces in short-form Latin binomials to avoid line wraps.
*maybe wlink
character (biology)?
*"A shallow anteromedian flexus is present, superficially dividing the anterior cusp (anterocone)." Yikes - a jargon blast with only redlinks - help please. The whole second paragraph of the description section could use a jargon overhaul...
*wlink
wetland
Thanks for the comments so far! Ucucha 22:24, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
I think the article meets all of the GA criteria below. No problems were found with dabs or links. I'll trust you to fix up that lead sentence, and will promote Carletonomys at this time. Cheers, Sasata ( talk) 06:10, 10 January 2010 (UTC)