Talk:Lemurs of Madagascar (book)

Programme by Martin Clunes
Did the programme presented by Martin Clunes get its title from this book? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 11:02, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not familiar with it, but the name is easy enough to construct if you're making a show about lemurs... especially since mentioning Madagascar in the title will help get people's attention. – Maky  « talk » 15:59, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Bloated article
This is one of the most overblown and bloated articles I have seen on Wikipedia. It appears to use itself for a source 44 times, out of about 60 sources total. I will tag it for cleanup, as we should not have such bloated articles on wiki. --- Possibly (talk) 03:30, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree that this article is bloated! I was surprised that this passed a GA.  Cxbrx (talk) 05:20, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
 * If this article is subject needs cleanup, does this make it ineligible for Featured articles? RoanokeVirginia (talk) 17:12, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
 * I have little experience with Featured articles. In general, I value conciseness.  My experience in academia is that writing a 10 page paper that presented prior work, contributions and future work was valued and can be quite difficult when compared to writing 30 - 100 page paper or a book.   Valuing the time and the attention of the reader is key.  Today the article is 37,771 characters.  Does that mean it is 10x better than an article that is 3,771 characters?  I dunno.  Is this a book review or a review of the topic?  In my experience (YMMV), I look to the NY Times book review as examples of good reviews.  I believe most of those reviews are shorter than this article.  A good review and a good Wikipedia article should help me decide if I want to read the book or read other articles on the topic.  I see this article as more of a synopsis of the book as compared to a review of the impact and criticism of the book.  One of the reviews is more like what I would expect this article to be like than what we have now.  In addition, the article has far too many self-citations and citations for sources where one of the authors (Russell Mittermeier) may have editorial control like Lemur News: (,, , .  As an outsider, the article seems like an effort to sell more books. I don't expect other editors to necessarily agree with me, I just find the article to be bloated. Cxbrx (talk) 02:22, 12 May 2021 (UTC)