Talk:Malagasy Hippopotamus
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Malagasy Hippopotamus has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can delist it, or ask for a reassessment. | |||
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An entry from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on July 10, 2007. | |||
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Very few researchers study the extinct malagasy hippopotamus! This is nearly every academic paper ever written about them! --JayHenry 06:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] GA Review
Overall, the article is very well written and well studied. Quite impressive. I believe it overall meets the Good Article criteria, and have promoted to to GA status. There are a couple areas where it could be improved, however, which could help the article achieve featured status. First, the lead could be improved to provide a better summary of the article as a whole. Ideally, a sentence or two on each of the major topics the article will discuss should be in the lead. There also shouldn't be any references here, either (since it's a summary, the references should be included later on in the article). Please review WP:LEAD for more information on writing a good lead section for an article.
Also, looking at the external link provided at the end of the article [1], I noticed two bits of information that probably should be mentioned somewhere:
- That the dwarf hippo probably "came to the island [Madagascar] about 1,6 million years ago."
- "The skeleton indicates that the animal lived mainly on land, while the recent African Hippoes live mainly in rivers and lakes."
Some photos of fossils, or possibly illustrations, could also improve the article further.
But overall, these are suggestions for getting the article up to FA standards. I don't think the lack of this would prevent GA status, as the article is already very well written and well researched. Cheers! Dr. Cash 19:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
