Talk:Hybrid (biology)/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: William Harris (talk · contribs) 10:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Hello Chiswick Chap, thank-you for nominating this article as a GAC and I will be reviewing it. My "Letters of Engagement" include two parts. The template below will contain those issues that need to be addressed as part of WP:POL (but with some flexibility), and the section below titled OTHER COMMENTS will contain suggestions for your consideration aimed at joint article improvement. If you are happy with this please let me know. Regards, William Harris •   (talk) •  10:34, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking this on. Sounds good. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:36, 28 June 2017 (UTC)

Other comments
You might consider WP:OVERLINK and reduce the number of common English words that have been hyper-linked in the lead paragraphs and the lead pix. Certainly the key or unusual (scientific) terms need to be linked. (We both know that the others will come along later and start dropping in a few links.)
 * Done. I aim for a link in each of lead, text, and image. Very occasionally a further link may be useful when widely separated.

There is probably no need to cite in the lead pix as I don't believe the statement is contentious.
 * Done.

Etymology: hybrida - what does the word mean in Latin? The cited Oxford Dictionaries link does not go to the word and it may need relinking.
 * Replaced ref, OED is basically messing users about for financial reasons.

Genetics: There may be a benefit in briefly describing what an allele does rather than depending on the link. Some simple example e.g. coat colour in mammals - allele for brown can be expressed as light tan or chocolate (or similar very simple example).
 * Done.

This paragraph may benefit from restructuring as follows: "Hybridization is greatly influenced by human impact on the environment,[48] such as habitat fragmentation and introduced species.[49] Humans have introduced species worldwide to environments for a long time, both intentionally such as establishing a population to be used as a biological control, and unintentionally such as accidental escapes of individuals out of agriculture. This causes drastic global effects on various populations, including through hybridization.[13][50] This increases the challenges in managing certain populations that are experiencing introgressive hybridization, and is a focus of conservation genetics." The correct citing would need to follow the last sentence.
 * Done.

"three semi-distinct categories dealing with anthropogenic hybridization: hybridization without introgression, hybridization with widespread introgression, and hybrid swarm". These are important concepts, and you might consider describing each with a sentence or two. A new paragraph would then be made beginning from "Conservationists disagree..."
 * Done.

Under the section "Management", second paragraph, "Conservationists disagree...." There may be benefit in some reduction of the word "it" in this paragraph, I find the meaning slightly hard to follow. (Being an encyc. we can get away with being over-specific.)
 * Reworded.

"only four to six generations older than the Oase individual" - what Oase individual?
 * Reworded.