Template:Did you know nominations/Blue nuthatch


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 08:56, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

Blue nuthatch

 * ... that the blue nuthatch (pictured) protects its corneas from falling bark and other debris when prospecting on trees, by contracting the bare skin around its eyes – an adaptation apparently unique to the species?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Djawoto

5x expanded by Fuhghettaboutit (talk). Self nominated at 04:48, 16 May 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg This substantial article is a five-fold expansion and is partly created by translation of the French language Wikipedia article. The hook fact is cited and QPQ has been done. The image is in the public domain and I detected no policy issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:20, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * @Cwmhiraeth:  Thanks for the review Cwmhiraeth! Please note the lowercase change in the hook, which has also been done throughout the article. I've also moved the article and this template to the lowercase title. This is from the new consensus for decapitalizing bird names (MOS location following from this discussion).--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 14:33, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That's fine. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:29, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Hook is over 200 char. Yoninah (talk) 19:08, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * @Yoninah:  It is 199 characters without "(pictured)". This has been invoked as an exception (though consensus is unclear). See the supplementary rules. In any event, Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy. This is a fully-developed article so I think this should be given some leeway – I've looked and I can't see any subtraction that would not do damage to meaning or flow. Possibly we could lose the word "other", but it reads better with it.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 21:14, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * The hook could be reduced by omitting "bark and other". Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:31, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Taking Cwmhiraeth's suggestion, turning it into an ALT1 hook, and calling for a reviewer to check it:
 * ALT1: ... that the blue nuthatch (pictured) protects its corneas from falling debris when prospecting on trees by contracting the bare skin around its eyes – an adaptation apparently unique to the species? —BlueMoonset (talk) 16:53, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg ALT1 is crisper and just as interesting. Offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. Cwmhiraeth's original review still holds, and I saw no close paraphrasing in online sources. Nice work! ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 19:28, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
 * @Yoninah:  Thanks all. Not that it matters but the hook is not offline (just click the linked doi in that citation:-))--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 01:44, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I did click on the doi. The site comes up as a paywall. And it's in German. The gray tick is for both offline and foreign-language. Yoninah (talk) 18:43, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Okay. I'm just wondering if you are taken to a different page than I am (which happens; some links redirect you based on location of your IP address). When I click on the doi I am taken here which provides a summary in English which includes information verifying the hook material.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 19:21, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Oh. I neglected to scroll down after I saw the "Buy here" button. The hook fact is indeed verified. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 22:00, 7 June 2014 (UTC)