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Choiseul Pigeon

 * ... that the extinct Choiseul Pigeon (pictured), which was endemic to the island of Choiseul in the Solomon Islands, was so tame that the indigenous hunters could pick it up off of its roost?
 * Reviewed: Snow snake

5x expanded by Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk). Self nominated at 08:27, 20 April 2013 (UTC).


 * Article - was 1843 characters before expansion started on 19 April, now 10243 characters of readable prose, so long enough with x5.55 expansion; neutral; at least one inline citation to every paragraph; no copy vios detected using earwig/duplication detector; and assessed as B class, so not a stub.
 * Hook - within length criteria at 187 characters; correctly formatted; correctly cited/supported by ref #2 (page 251 of PDF) in 'Ecology and behaviour' section; and draws attention.
 * QPQ done.
 * QPQ done.

I'm unsure of the license on this picture so will ask Crisco to check it before including an approval tick - everything else is fine. SagaciousPhil  -  Chat  11:23, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * It based on a PD image, with hardly any original additions, so it would itself be PD in any case. But the PD Keulemans image is better. FunkMonk (talk) 17:40, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg Those original additions are likely to be copyrightable, and we don't know who Lang is. The Keulemens image is fine. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:50, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've dropped a note on Rufous' talk page to ask for the images to be swapped here.  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  06:57, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And switched. Hopefully correctly. Rufous-crowned Sparrow (talk) 06:59, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, image is now PD, so no problems, everything else covered above. Interesting substantial article, which looks ready to go. SagaciousPhil  -  Chat  08:15, 22 April 2013 (UTC)