Talk:Antbird/GA1

GA Review
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 * 1) Intro:antshrikes, antwrens, antvireos, fire-eye, bare-eyes and bushbirds. Don't think that these should be bolded, some at least have articles and should be linked to them
 * 2) Don't need to put (HTML) in refs, since default. Why are doi in small font?
 * 3) exposing white patches on their back feathers or shoulders. unclear, are the white patches bare skin, or is it white feather patches on their backs or shoulders?
 * 4) The family is predominantly found in forests members of the family are... ?
 * 5) taxonomy - some bits lack refs
 * 6) Zimmer, K. & M. Isler - page number(s)
 * 7) PDF links should have (PDF) indication in ref
 * Why? It is clear that it is an external link, there is a little Adobe sing next to it. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  22:24, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Different species are uniform in colour or at times patterned with barring or spots. reads as if they change their appearance
 * 2) rust underparts rusty? rust-coloured?
 * 3) Dot-winged Antwrens puff out white back patches, whereas  Bluish-slate Antshrikes and White-flanked Antwrens the white patch is on the shoulder. word missing?
 * 4) Nether the less one word
 * 5) The distribution of the antbirds is entirely Neotropical, with the vast majority of the species being found in the tropics. tautology?
 * No, Neotropics covers the whole of the South American continent. Slightly confusing I conceed.

I picked up a few typos, and there are places where the text is a bit clunky, could do with another careful copyedit. The comments above were from a first read, I'll go through again tomorrow, and also check the refs
 * 1) above 2000 m and almost none with ranges above 3000 m. conversions and nbsp needed
 * 2) recated  is this a typo?
 * 3) Immaculate Antbirds regularly attend army ant swarms in order to feed, but is not an obligate ant-follower and also forages away from the swarms ungrammatical, and if a sentence, caption should have full stop too
 * 4) An important resource used by some species of antbird, and one from which the family's common name is derived, are
 * 5) divorces between pairs are common, but this is exceptional. I know what you mean, but...
 * 6) 1500 m  conversions and nbsp needed
 * 7) Even relatively well known species are poorly known  I know what you mean, but...


 * The Adobe sign may show in IE, but it doesn't in Firefox, so all the refs look the same to me - and I guess regular Wikipedia editors are disproportionately likely to use Firefox. Doesn't look as if there's a great deal to do now, let me know when you've done jimfbleak (talk) 05:08, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Huh? I use Firefox, and I see them. Curious. Well, I guess I could make it clearer. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  05:48, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * GA review (see here for criteria)


 * 1) It is reasonably well written.
 * a (prose): b (MoS):
 * 1) It is factually accurate and verifiable.
 * a (references): b (citations to reliable sources):  c (OR):
 * 1) It is broad in its coverage.
 * a (major aspects): b (focused):
 * 1) It follows the neutral point of view policy.
 * Fair representation without bias:
 * 1) It is stable.
 * No edit wars etc.:
 * 1) It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
 * a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
 * 1) Overall:
 * Pass/Fail:

Nice article. Before going to FAC, just a couple of points
 * 1) "species" occurs a lot, to some extent that's inevitable, but might be worth a read through to see if some variation is possible
 * 2) Barred Antshrike (one of my favourite birds) image seems oddly positioned
 * 3) ref 1 still has a redundant HTML tag, and the doi is fmted differently to ref 2

I'm working on a family level article too (nuthatch, but a bit easier than yours! Good luck, jimfbleak (talk) 05:22, 21 June 2008 (UTC)