Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Drosophila subobscura/archive1

Drosophila subobscura

 * Nominator(s): Andrewoh29 (talk) 15:35, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

This article is about... the biology, ecology, and taxonomy of the Drosophila subobscura species of Diptera. I started writing the article from Dr. Strassmann's Behavioral Ecology class at Washington University in St. Louis. Since then, I have continued to improve and follow-up with the article. I believe the article should be featured, because it seems to meets all the criteria for a featured article.

I am open to being mentored and would appreciate reviewers to reach out to me!

Andrewoh29 (talk) 15:35, 24 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi Andrewoh29, welcome to FAC and thanks for your work on this article. I notice that some sections are quite closely paraphrased from the given sources. Look for example at the "Head" section: "The species has a brown antenna with grey pollinosity that is approximately the same color as the rest of the head-capsule. The front of the antenna is dark brown and matte, without any pollinosity except on the frontal triangle and fronto-orbital plates, both of which are shiny and slightly pollinose. The carina (tracheal cartilage that divides the two bronchi) of the fly is rounded, widening below, and the face is a paler brown color with grey pollinosoty. The genae is brown with heavy, grey pollinosity. The ocelli (small or 'simple' eyes of an insect) are the same color as the eyes." This is essentially a slightly expanded version of the given source for that section: "Antenna brown, grey pollisnose, more or less concolorous with the rest of the head-capsule. Front dark brown, matte, without any pollinosity except on the frontal triangle and the fronto-orbital plates which are shiny and slightly pollinose. Carina rounded, widening below, it and the face generally of a paler brown, grey pollinose. Genae brown, heavily grey pollinose. Ocelli of the same colour as the eyes." Unfortunately I'm going to need to oppose over this issue at this time, as fixing it will require some pretty fundamental rewriting of affected sections. Nikkimaria (talk) 15:45, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Image review
 * Files are mostly ok. The author of File:Inbreeding-_Sibs.jpg has a history of copyright violations, but that particular file should be ok because it is probably below the threshold of originality required for copyright. File:Dobzhansky no Brasil em 1943.jpg —this file needs to be removed because it is almost certainly copyrighted, see the deletion request. buidhe 15:22, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Thank you for your comments! I appreciate you reaching out. I will work on these edits. andrewoh29 (talk) 13:00, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that this has been withdrawn. ——  SN  54129  19:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

You are correct! I am going to do more edits before re-nominating. Not sure if there is a formal process for withdrawing. Sorry about that andrewoh29 (talk) 13:39, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * No problem,, apologies for undoing you, but, yeah, the FAC coordinators have to do it the way the bot likes  :)  they'll be along soon enough to complete the process. Best of luck with getting this sorted out though!  ——  SN  54129  19:49, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Appreciate that! Thank you for your help! andrewoh29 (talk) 13:50, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Ian Rose (talk) 03:25, 26 January 2020 (UTC)