Template:Did you know nominations/Texas antelope squirrel

Texas antelope squirrel

 * ... that despite normally being grey, brown and white, one Texas antelope squirrel found in 1905 was tinted purple?
 * Reviewed: Zarzur

5x expanded by Miyagawa (talk). Self nom at 17:36, 13 January 2013 (UTC)


 * ~1800 chars, about 12x expansion
 * Cites inline to reputable-looking sources
 * Hook is brief, verified, and interesting (how many purple squirrels are there?)
 * Will continue review later Chris857 (talk) 04:00, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Apologies for not getting back here sooner.
 * Article given light copyedit
 * Source agree with article content
 * I see no copyvio, though the one PDF is not OCR'd, so is inconvenient to fully search
 * Suggestions:
 * Can you merge the two IUCN refs, since they are identical pages?
 * Not necessary to passing, but a distribution map would be nice.
 * Chris857 (talk) 01:10, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I've merged the two IUCN refs (in fact I hadn't realised that there was a separate citation template for them). I've never created a distribution map before, I thought it might have just been a case of drawing it onto a map but it seems that its a fair bit more complicated than that. Miyagawa (talk) 09:41, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if there is any specific place to ask about distribution maps, though, for example, the map for Harris's antelope squirrel was made by user:rbrausse. You may want to ask him/her how they made it. Anyway, this passes for dyk. Symbol confirmed.svg Chris857 (talk) 21:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC)