Talk:The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (October 15, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated. |
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A fact from The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:37, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
- ... that while reviewers generally praised The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, one reviewer complained that the author was "so nice about his colleagues that it makes you long for a juicy academic vendetta"?
- Reviewed: Fewer than 5 past noms, no QPQ required
- Comment: I don't have a direct source for generally positive reviews, but I haven't been able to find a single review that didn't primarily praise the book. If this is an issue I can reword the hook to exclude that.
Rusalkii (talk) 04:54, 22 May 2024 (UTC).
- @Rusalkii: Article is long enough, well sourced, and is free from copyvio (apart from direct quotes from reviews, obviously). Article is new enough: published into mainspace the same day DYK was submitted. The hook is interesting, but I couldn't access the hook source directly due to a paywall. It doesn't affect the DYK nom but there are a lot of sources like that in the article; I would recommend adding accessible archived URLs for the sources like that if you get a chance. One pedantic thing before approval: since the original quote says that he "is" so nice, the word "was" in the hook should be moved outside of the quotation marks since it's not a direct quote. Other than that there's nothing preventing this from approval on good faith. Kimikel (talk) 21:04, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Quote fixed. I'll attempt to find an un-paywalled source later. Rusalkii (talk) 22:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Marking this as approved per Kimikel's review, since the tick is needed for the bot to process the approval. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 10:28, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
- Quote fixed. I'll attempt to find an un-paywalled source later. Rusalkii (talk) 22:10, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Sources
[edit]I have some notes and sources that I didn't end up working into the article at User:Rusalkii/The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Rusalkii (talk) 04:55, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Feedback from New Page Review process
[edit]I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks you for creating a page on this book; for future new pages, remember to link the article from elsewhere and to add categories so that the article you've created can be more easily found by others.
Klbrain (talk) 20:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
GA Review
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Nominator: Rusalkii (talk · contribs) 04:28, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
Reviewer: IntentionallyDense (talk · contribs) 13:42, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
I will review this soon. IntentionallyDense (talk) 13:42, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Review
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1. Well-written: | ||
1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct. | See comments below. IntentionallyDense (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
2. Verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check: | ||
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose). | Checked most of the sources and found no issues. IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Non-fiction synopsis needs to be sourced. IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:24, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
2c. it contains no original research. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
2d. it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
3. Broad in its coverage: | ||
3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style). | IntentionallyDense (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio: | ||
6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions. | IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:12, 7 October 2024 (UTC) | |
7. Overall assessment. | I'm going to place this on hold until the nominator addresses the points I have raised thus far. IntentionallyDense (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
Failed due to inactivity. IntentionallyDense (talk) 03:03, 15 October 2024 (UTC) |
- Tom Holland at The Times and other reviewers especially singled out his ability to describe paleontological landscapes. Is a bit confusing. Could you expand on this and reword a bit? IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:25, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- I feel like this article relies too much on quotes. A lot of what you are quoting could be summarized or rephrased without the use of quotes. IntentionallyDense (talk) 14:24, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs was Brusatte's first book for a popular adult audience Could you clarify what this means? IntentionallyDense (talk) 21:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC)
- @Rusalkii: Just wanted to ping you to make sure that you're aware I've started the review here. IntentionallyDense (talk) 18:32, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
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