Talk:Malagasy hippopotamus

Few researchers
Very few researchers study the extinct malagasy hippopotamus! This is nearly every academic paper ever written about them! --JayHenry 06:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't the article be split, though? It seems to be an unnatural grouping. FunkMonk (talk) 14:16, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

GA Review
Overall, the article is very well written and well studied. Quite impressive. I believe it overall meets the Good Article criteria, and have promoted to to GA status. There are a couple areas where it could be improved, however, which could help the article achieve featured status. First, the lead could be improved to provide a better summary of the article as a whole. Ideally, a sentence or two on each of the major topics the article will discuss should be in the lead. There also shouldn't be any references here, either (since it's a summary, the references should be included later on in the article). Please review WP:LEAD for more information on writing a good lead section for an article.

Also, looking at the external link provided at the end of the article, I noticed two bits of information that probably should be mentioned somewhere:
 * That the dwarf hippo probably "came to the island [Madagascar] about 1,6 million years ago."
 * "The skeleton indicates that the animal lived mainly on land, while the recent African Hippoes live mainly in rivers and lakes."

Some photos of fossils, or possibly illustrations, could also improve the article further.

But overall, these are suggestions for getting the article up to FA standards. I don't think the lack of this would prevent GA status, as the article is already very well written and well researched. Cheers! Dr. Cash 19:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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Split
proposed the splitting of this article into species articles.
 * Split to the species to maintain consistency with all other paleontology articles.-- Kev min  § 17:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, this is not even a taxon, but a term covering a geographical area, like saying "European elephant" or something. FunkMonk (talk) 17:59, 31 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Split per FunkMonk. Rlendog (talk) 16:00, 24 October 2019 (UTC)