Talk:Whaling in the Faroe Islands/GA1

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 14:19, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

What an interesting and well-written article on a sensitive subject. I have only a few comments to make.

~~"these dolphin specie" -> "species"~~

The term grind needs to be introduced as it is local to the Faroes; further, it seems to mean "pilot whale" and "whale meat" as well (possibly) as "whale hunt" - though that seems to be Grindadráp, literally "whale-killing" (maybe that is now slangily abbreviated to grind for the hunt? - in which case we probably should not use it), so a little cited explanation would be desirable.

~~Further to the above, would it not be better just to say "whale-hunt" as the general name in English, after briefly introducing the various Faroese terms just once?~~

~~"Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora" should be wikilinked to CITES.~~

~~"International Whales Commission" should be "International Whaling Commission", and wikilinked.~~

~~"The film is one minute long and caused controversy when it was released." needs a citation for the controversy.~~

~~"and drawing criticism even from some members of the pro-whaling community," - seems to be cited in the BBC article, so please move the ref to the end of the sentence.~~

~~"Sleppið Grindini" - I presume that means "Stop the Whale-hunt". The term should be in italics and the translation supplied in parentheses.~~

~~"be put down" -> "lawfully be killed".~~

~~"currently around 22–23 approved whaling drive locations". You've listed 27 of them...~~

~~"the Faroese PM" -> "the Faroese prime minister", and I suggest you add his name and wikilink, "Bárður á Steig Nielsen".~~

~~In ref #12, Grindabátarnir has been mistranslated as "Lattice boats". Clearly it means "Whaling boats" here. The original Faroese title should be provided as well as the English translation.~~

~~Could you please provide a trans-title= parameter with English translation of every Faroese article title used in the references.~~

Summary

OK, that's about it from me. The needed fixes are very minor and shouldn't take long. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:37, 6 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's looking great. It's a GA. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:16, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Chiswick Chap: Thanks for taking the time to conduct this GA review, for your useful and helpful comments (trans-titles were a new discovery for me) and for helping to give me the shove I needed to go through the piece and standardise the terminology, which admittedly was somewhat variable - couldn't quite decide whether to push it towards common terms or local slang. I'm glad to hear that I am generally pushing the boulder up the slope in the right direction. Iskandar323 (talk) 11:41, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]