Template:Did you know nominations/Eastern green mamba


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The result was: rejected by Allen3 talk 20:29, 1 May 2014 (UTC)

Close paraphrasing issues in article, nominator has been blocked for Sock puppetry

Eastern green mamba

 * ... that the Eastern green mamba (pictured) is one of the very few elapids that are likely to be ambush predators?

Improved to Good Article status by DendroNaja (talk). Self nominated at 00:41, 28 April 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg The cited source (or the article) is not so certain that it's an ambush predator for sure. Need to add "likely" to the hook. Also, "elapids" should be linked, as it's not a common word. -Zanhe (talk) 04:21, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg It did not take long to find an example of uncomfortably close paraphrasing in this article. Based on problems with other snake articles written by this author (see Black mamba for one example), I don't think this is appropriate for the main page until a more thorough check is undertaken. Sasata (talk) 19:01, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I have fixed the close-paraphrasing problem in the article. There shouldn't be any problem.-- Dendro†Naja Talk to me!  02:43, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg Nominator blocked as a sock, please feel free to remove this is you want to take it on, but there are likely more paraphrasing issues. Thanks, Mat  ty  .  007  17:09, 1 May 2014 (UTC)