Talk:Banded palm civet/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: AryKun (talk · contribs) 11:21, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Will do. AryKun (talk) 11:21, 22 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay in reviewing.
 * This article has a lot of issues that I can see on a quick skim.
 * The lead is far too short.
 * It relies far too much on the outdated account by Pocock, sources that old are usually only used for historical facts about taxonomy and for extinct species on Wikipedia.
 * Classification has uncited statements.✅
 * Doesn't actually provide much information about its systematics or evolution, especially considering that the paper it's cited to has quite a bit of detail.
 * Doesn't mention morphological differences between the subspecies, and the distribution already given would be better in a list form.
 * No info about breeding, except for one sentence in Description, oddly enough.
 * Description is poorly put together and doesn't really have a coherent flow (most articles have size, general appearance, sexual dimorphism, and then age related differences)
 * Very little information on habitat considering what's available in the literature.
 * Distribution has too many statistics that should actually be in Conservation. ✅
 * Half of Behaviour and ecology is just Pocock's account from 80 years ago, which is very outdated and should be replaced by more recent refs., but I don't see anything necessarily wrong about using Pocock's account, it's not like these things change quickly.
 * Conservation also suffers from flow issues and just seems like a collection of random points with little connection between them.
 * Found an image of what I presume is a cub, and this would be better for the infobox imo.
 * Refs should italicise genus and specific names. ✅
 * Indonesia WCS is not a scholarly source; fine at GA level, but would ideally be replaced by something better like a book or journal article.
 * I'll hold this for now, but this requires a lot of elbow grease, so I'd recommend letting this fail and renominating after you've addressed the points raised above. AryKun (talk) 11:54, 29 August 2023 (UTC)


 * . That makes sense, I guess. My apologies. Edward-Woodrow :) [ talk ] 12:10, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
 * All right, I'll fail this; if you want to work on this article and renominate, Mantled howler is a good example of what to aim for. AryKun (talk) 14:48, 29 August 2023 (UTC)