Template:Did you know nominations/Australian Journal of Herpetology

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 14:34, 13 May 2020 (UTC)

Australian Journal of Herpetology

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• ... that a first-year student and a high school teacher proposed "more taxonomic changes than had been proposed by all other authors in the previous decade" to Australia's reptiles and amphibians? Source: (1) Wells a student: "During the time Mr. Wells was a 1st year biology student at the University of New England"; (2) Wellington a high school teacher: "A Blaxland High School science teacher, Mr Ross Wellington, and his co-worker, Mr Richard Wells..."; (3) quote: "The first attempt to compile a list of the entire herpetofauna of Australia was that of Cogger, Cameron and Cogger (1983). Within just a few months of its publication Wells and Wellington (1984) produced a reptile checklist involving "a few re-interpretations of our own." This description of their work is far too modest because the 57 pages include more taxonomic changes than had been proposed by all other authors in the previous decade."

• Reviewed: KUOP
• Comment: I like to think this article is pretty juicy so there are probably lots of other decent hooks if anyone has a better one.

Moved to mainspace by Bobamnertiopsis (talk). Self-nominated at 18:49, 22 March 2020 (UTC).

• This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:50, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

• Hi, I came by to promote this, but I wonder about the efficacy of the long quote. Perhaps a more specific example would work, like:

• ALT0a: ... that in the Australian Journal of Herpetology, a first-year student and a high school teacher reassessed the taxonomy of Australia's entire reptile class, naming 33 novel genera and 214 new species? Yoninah (talk) 15:28, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

• It's fine by me although technically that was only in one of the three papers they published in the AJH. Cwmhiraeth, any thoughts? —Collin^{t c} 21:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

• Seems OK to me. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:28, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth, if it's okay enough to approve, can you supply the needed tick as original reviewer? If not, then please let us know what else is needed. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:12, 9 May 2020 (UTC)

• Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:34, 9 May 2020 (UTC)