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The History of Research section is way too long, especially in proportion to the "Paleoecology" and "Paleobiology" sections, which are the meat of the article because they are about the species. It needs to be cut down.
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Wow, the article got hugely revamped in a single edit! I'm impressed.
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Are there any colored holotypes to be found for the genus? Adding a colored picture would help, but there might not be one, so this is a relatively minor point.
Even so, I'm not sure all the details in the section are particularly necessary, although there might be certain conventions for extinct arthropods that I'm unaware of. Nevertheless, I'm impressed by the due diligence to find all the details in the first place.
Gug01 (
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01:03, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
Butting in here, saying a section should be cut down because other sections are shorter is absolute nonsense. It has nothing to do with the GA criteria, and it makes sense the section is longer since it covers more than a century of research.
FunkMonk (
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08:00, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I understand where you're coming from,
User:FunkMonk, but my words have been misinterpreted. Keeping things in proportion, covering all the main subtopics to the article subject without going into unnecessary detail, is one of the criteria for GA articles. What I'm trying to get across is that I don't think that all the details in the section are relevant and that the size of the section makes the reader give outsized weight to the "History of Research" part of the article.
Gug01 (
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21:26, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
I had something like "First discoveries" and "Description of subsequent species" in mind. I do not agree with removing details, I think everything is useful in some way.
SuperΨDro14:05, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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Super Dromaeosaurus: I agree with the splitting up the section. As to cutting down certain details, I'll take another look at the sections to pinpoint where I think it's too much. It might not even be the details themselves so much as the wording. If I find that, reviewing the article, I'm wrong, then the article definitely should be GA. If not, we'll work together to fix it.
Gug01 (
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21:26, 2 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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Super Dromaeosaurus: Good job writing this article! While I was uneasy about the length of the first section, breaking it up has helped a lot. I want to congratulate you on your work to bring this obscure species to GA status. The organization and prose were clear and there was a good depth of detail.
Gug01 (
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23:43, 3 January 2019 (UTC)reply
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