Talk:Bongo (antelope)

Bongo (antelope)

Even though this article doesn't have enougn in line referencing, I still feel it's for sure of Featured Article status. THIS HAS SINCE BEEN CORRECTED. 3/JULY/07

Outsatnding article! Clear & informative with good resourses.

I agree in full. Bezking 00:23, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

PR script output

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• The lead of this article may be too long, or may contain too many paragraphs. Please follow guidelines at WP:LEAD; be aware that the lead should adequately summarize the article.^[?]
• The lead is for summarizing the rest of the article, and should not introduce new topics not discussed in the rest of the article, as per WP:LEAD. Please ensure that the lead adequately summarizes the article.^[?]
• Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (numbers), there should be a non-breaking space -   between a number and the unit of measurement. For example, instead of 000 km, use 000 km, which when you are editing the page, should look like: 000 km.^[?]
• Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.^[?]

You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas. Thanks, Wim van Dorst (Talk) 17:38, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

GA/FA status

The lead mainly talks about two main subspecies. It needs to summarize each major section of the article. Split the generic refs from the footnotes, see Scouting for how to do this. You need more footnotes. Generally, every large paragraph should have a footnote. Let me know when you're done. Very nice work so far, much better. Rlevse 12:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Reply: Thanks so much for your comments. The lead has been expanded as directed. Refs split. Not sure if more footnotes are required than there are already. All information is presented. What more would you like? We'll keep plugging away here! Black Stripe 14:06, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

The above output of the peerreviewer script still shows that the article needs further work to at least comply with very basic requirements, even for GA status. May I recommend that you use this script yourself for repetitive checking that you really have found all easy-to-do things. The script is especially helpful if you plan to improve it up to GA and FA status.

More in detail:

• the lead really needs to summarize only what is in the article body: write one lead for the bongo, and explain in the lead the two varations.
• you may introduce some more wikilinking, in-line references (each statement!) and simply more information.
• Enhance the external links to better indicate what they link to

Important guidelines to follow are WP:LEAD, WP:CITE and WP:FACR. Read these carefully, and follow the suggestions. And really good info is in Tony1's and AndyZ's wikipages as recommended by the peerreviewer output. Top recommended. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 19:17, 1 June 2007 (UTC).

Western Bongo

Several of my photos appear on this page and i have noticed that they are labeled on this page as being western bongos, but in fact they are eastern bongos, this is in reference to the photos that were taken at louisville zoo in kentucky.... I just thought the text under the photos should be changed to reflect the correct subspecies that they are.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ltshears (talk • contribs) 18:05, 21 March 2008 (UTC) THIS HAS BEEN CORRECTED

IT says under Western Bongo on the info bar thing that it's Critically endangered, but it says it's near threatened in the article. Which is it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.244.64.113 (talk) 16:43, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

Western Bongo Picture

Is the picture at the start of the article really a Western Bongo? I believe it is actually an Eastern and that there are no Western Bongos in captivity at the moment and that there haven't been for quite a few years. To quote from the article itself: "All bongos in captivity are from the isolated Aberdare Mountains of central Kenya." So since the picture was taken in Cincinnati Zoo, it must be an Eastern/Mountain Bongo Jubblubs (talk) 20:19, 18 October 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject matter would typically find nothing wanting. May miss a few relevant points. Much work has gone into this article & all points made from the previous FAC discussion have been addressed. Thanks for all your help! Black Stripe (talk) 15:54, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Last edited at 15:54, 22 January 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 10:01, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Antelope?

I am not really up to date with the fine details of English-name taxonomy for "antelopes", but there is clearly confusion here: the article title says "(antelope)" and the species is referred to as an antelope at least once in the main text. The scond sentence of the lead, however, suggests otherwise. Will whoever is looking after this page please investigate? Thank you — GRM (talk) 16:47, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

As far as I can tell, "antelope" is a catch-all term sort of interchangeable with "bovid," and refers to, in addition to animals like the bongo, the kudus, gnus and their close relatives, those various bovids that aren't specifically identified with some other subtype of bovid (i.e., sheep, goat, cattle, buffalo, ox, etc), as well as their prehistoric relatives and those animals that bear a strong resemblance to antelope (i.e., the pronghorn "antelope"). Plus, all of the indigenous bovids of Africa can be correctly and have traditionally been referred to as "antelope."--Mr Fink (talk) 19:41, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Photo...

If new label for top image is correct, the image is redundant under heading Western/lowland Bongo...—GRM (talk) 20:28, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

Copyright violation?

I have never seen this before, and have to confess that it does not seem to adhere to any degree of transparency (which, I though, was a basic premise/principle of Wikipedia).

Notably, what is the source (or what are the sources) that the user or BOT thinks this is in breach of copyright of? Surely, those with an interest in the subject should be given an opportunity to rework the content rather than risk its complete obliteration?

Please clarify. Thank you—GRM (talk) 16:44, 29 November 2019 (UTC)

Why is this page not available?

This is ridiculous. Some sort of copyright issue? It's been months, surely someone should have figured out what the issue is by now. People need to know what a Bongo is. 2.100.3.83 (talk) 21:44, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for the delay. We have only a handful of people working in copyright cleanup unfortunately. The purported source webpages have copied from Wikipedia rather than the other way around. So I have restored the article.— Diannaa (talk) 22:36, 18 April 2020 (UTC)

Bongo picture

I don't think that the picture of a 'Western Bongo' [first picture on page] at Marwell truly is a Western Bongo - only the Mountain/Eastern subspecies exists in captivity.. Dedennedillo (talk) 13:26, 26 July 2022 (UTC)