Talk:Corsican nuthatch/GA1

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Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

I'll take a look Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:56, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

At first look, the article is comprehensive (which is good), but somewhat verbose - I can see multiple places where the sentences can be trimmed like this.

The Corsican nuthatch appeared in the scientific world.... - why not "The Corsican nuthatch was discovered.."?

The Corsican nuthatch consumes mainly pine nuts, but also small flying insects in summer, as would a flycatcher. - why is the flycatcher comparison important here

Hi there,  Done. 122.55.139.176 (talk) 06:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

generally avoid "very" ...as in not very shy. - why not just "not shy." ?

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spotted a male Corsican nuthatch and shot the individual. --> "spotted and shot a male Corsican nuthatch."

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He kept the specimen's skin [and did not bother with it] until October --> if we lose the bracketed bit...do we lose meaning?

Still probably the same anyway.

for help in naming some small birds he had been able to collect --> "for help in naming some small birds he had collected"

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Whitehead's opinion was that the bird was not a species that could be described. - this is also verbose though I can't think of a simpler way right now

I ended up removing it, because i think its repetitive on orevious statement.

link Altai, subgenus, vicariance

Linked

so no confusion is possible - redundant. Anyway, you mention something it could be confused with next. Better to just remove. no meaning lost

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however, it may be reminiscent of the coal tit (Parus ater), which is very common in Corsican forests and has similar markings on its head --> "however, its head markings resemble those of the coal tit (Parus ater), which is common in Corsican forests"

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The most geographically related nuthatch is the Eurasian nuthatch which inhabits mainland France - wordy, trim to " The Eurasian nuthatch is found in mainland France"

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You could remove almost all the "very"s - they don't add anything.

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The Corsican nuthatch is the only current species of bird endemic to Corsica, and even to metropolitan France. - "current" redundant" - also link endemic

Done

Ummm.....Eliomys quercinus is a dormouse not a ferret

Oof, this happen probably when I worked this article and Algerian nuthatch that time. Replaced. 2001:4455:30B:6C00:E403:1634:334A:2FD6 (talk) 12:29, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

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Pass or Fail: I suppose I would not have split out discovery and nomenclature into separate sections but given how this bird has been studied makes sense. Overall, nice work. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:07, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

• @Casliber: - unfortunately missed: Manual of Style compliance: : improper conversion of English spelling to American spelling (grey → gray, behaviour → behavior, colour → color, etc., etc.), contrary to MOS:RETAIN and MOS:TIES; this really should have been picked up right away at the good article evaluation. I've already had to deal with the same problem at Algerian nuthatch and Krüper's nuthatch after finding it by chance and will work on this one now too, but I do wonder, how many other pages has this happened to? In all three cases the edits doing this were from throwaway IP addresses rather than a logged-in username, so there is no easy way of tracing by user contributions. MPF (talk) 16:00, 30 September 2024 (UTC)