Talk:Lion Attacking a Dromedary/GA1

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Reviewer: Amitchell125 (talk · contribs) 16:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Happy to attack this one...

Assessment

Lead section

Who is Édouard Verreaux?
- added --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
'Barbary’, not barbary.

- fixed --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Link diorama.
- Okay --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
As it stands the caption—possibly the first thing read—might give readers the impression that the work is modern. I would amend it to something like ‘The restored Lion Attacking a Dromedary in 2018’.
- sounds good --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The last two paragraphs relate to events many years later, and so would be better in a separate paragraph.
I don't have an objection --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I notice the exhibit is also referred to as Arab Courier Attacked by Lions. Worth including in the lead?
- I listed it in the note. There have been many names for this diorama --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

History

Link taxidermist; X-rays (capital X needed); DNA testing (Genetic testing); symposium (Academic conference).
- sure --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
✗ ...part of Maison Verreaux. - this needs copy editing to make its meaning clearer.
Who is Antoine-Louis Barye?
- added that he was a french sculptor --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ref 2a (Ross) only partly verifies the sentence that precedes it.
- added Rouvalis for the discussion of the skins --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
...the museum conducted x-rays and DNA testing of the taxidermied animals… - I would improve the prose by amending to ‘...the museum conducted tests on the animals using X-rays and DNA analysis techniques…’, or something similar.
- sure --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
✗ Verreaux worked with his brother, not on his own, according to some sources used in the article.
A citation is needed to verify that X-rays have ben used.
- Done --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Ref 3 (Molina) states: “He confirms that the courier on display in Pittsburgh is a plaster mannequin,…”, not that it was mostly made of plaster, as written in the article.
- There is human bones in it that were discovered in 2016, after that source was written. Adding a source for the bones. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
equivalent to $1,537 in 2019 – needs to be cited.
- I used Template:Inflation without a source for the inflation in The Minute Man (an FA) without any complaints. I also don't think this falls under direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons because the 1898 number is cited. --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:15, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

That's useful to know, thanks. Amitchell125 (talk) 21:43, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Depiction

...considered to be Verreaux's masterpiece. - it's considered as only by Molina in her article. A citation is needed to show it was generally considered to be a masterpiece.
- I attributed the opinion --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:29, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The body of a female lion lies in front of the camel with a long gun on top of it. - doesn’t appear to be verified by Ref 4 (Rouvalis).
- fixed --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:29, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I think Ref 12 (Poliquin) should read p. 97, not 91.
- Yup. My bad --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:29, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

A url is available for Ref 12 (Poliquin) here.
A url is available for Ref 13 (Griffiths) here.
A url is available for Ref 3 (Molina) here.
- Done --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:19, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

On hold

I'll put the article onhold for a week until 8 October to allow time for my comments to be addressed. Amitchell125 (talk) 20:35, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Amitchell125: I responded to your prompts --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 21:36, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Passing

@Guerillero: Apart from a couple of minor points highlighted in red, the article is in good shape. Passing now, nice work. Amitchell125 (talk) 21:54, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]