Talk:Verrucariaceae/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 13:25, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Come on, I'll do this one. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:25, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Comments
This is an admirably thorough and informative article, richly cited. It covers both the taxon's history and its current status well. As such I have only a few comments to make, and they are around the fringes.


 * For a necessarily technical article, as always I wonder if we could lead in gently in the first paragraph of the lead section. I guess the key points for the uninitiated are that the family is not entirely composed of lichens (better say what the others are, then!); that while most grow on land, some grow in freshwater and some in the sea; some are parasites of other lichens; and one marine species lives with a leafy green alga, remarkable. Maybe some of that could be presented rather simply?
 * Added.


 * The description section does its best with all those horrendous technical terms, with useful glosses. There is definitely scope for a diagram or two of some of the family's structures, for instance to explain "catapyrenioid" - you could show its ascospores compared to more normal ones. Obviously not mandatory.
 * To do after GA.


 * "to be unique enough to warrant inclusion in their own family." Could this be better expressed? Something along the lines of "to be distinctive enough to warrant the creation of their own monotypic families"?
 * Fixed.


 * The caption for the interesting image of Mastodia tesselata should say it's a marine species, and that's a rock in the intertidal zone? (btw is it tesselata or rather tessellata as one would expect?)
 * Fixed.


 * "a crustose, seashore-inhabiting Verrucariaceae": "member of the Verrucariaceae"? "verrucariacean"?
 * Fixed.


 * Few readers will be familiar with the growth forms of the mentioned algae (and Petroderma maculiforme is redlinked...). It might be worth adding brief glosses ("the encrusting marine alga...", "the microscopic multicellular alga...") to give people an idea of what's involved.


 * Have you got endolith and epilith the wrong way around? Gk. endo = within, epi = upon.
 * Fixed.


 * "1 thousand" -> either "1000" or "one thousand" (or even "a thousand") as you like.
 * Fixed.


 * You are invited to make use of my photo File:Coastal vegetation zones at St Malo.jpg which shows Hydropunctaria maura forming a stripe along the high-tide line, if you'd find it helpful. I'd hesitate to say it but it seems to show a quite distinctive side to the family's ecology rather clearly.
 * Added.


 * Hi . I'm a bit worried about . They haven't edited since Jan 6, after editing heavily and regularly up to that point. I'm happy to pick this up in early Feb if you don't hear anything from them by then. MeegsC (talk) 19:17, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * : Yes, me too. Do you have some way of finding if they're well? And yes, it'd be great if you could pick this up. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:22, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
 * , I was able to reach Esculenta via email. As I'd hoped, it's actually just RL commitments getting in the way of Wikipedia for the next few months. I'm happy to take over the shepherding of this one, but I'm currently in Guyana on a work trip and won't have time to get stuck into this until I get home next month. Would you mind waiting a couple of weeks? MeegsC (talk) 01:33, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks, let's do that. Chiswick Chap (talk) 03:38, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * : You're back? Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi ; just got back to the UK last night. I guess Esculenta still isn't back, so I will prioritize this review this coming week. Thanks for your patience! MeegsC (talk) 12:16, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Since nothing here is at all controversial and we seem to be otherwise stuck, I'm boldly going ahead with the proposed changes. Feel free to adjust as desired. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:59, 22 February 2023 (UTC)