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Blue Iguana
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because…I would like to bring it up to FA Status. Before I go through that I'd like to be made aware of any shortcomings, etc. Thanks, Mike Searson (talk) 22:01, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

RJH review
Overall a fine piece of work. Nice job! Here are a few comments: Thanks.&mdash;RJH (talk) 22:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The lede section isn't really a summary of the article. Two of the three paragraphs focus on the conservation section. I'd like to see a more balanced introduction, per Lead_section.
 * "Blue iguanas have excellent vision, which allows them to detect shapes and motions at long distances." What is "long" in this context? Can this be more precise?
 * Can the "Mating" section give some information about how mates are selected? Do they mate for life; just long enough to copulate; males build "harems", &c.?
 * In the scientific literature, are the units in SI or US? (See MoS.) It's a scientific article so it seems like SI should be the main units.
 * The first use of a unit (feet, m, inch, pounds, &c.) needs to be wikilinked. I think there should be a non-breaking space between the value and the unit for SI values.
 * The date fields in the citations have an inconsistent format. There are dates in the form "2/8/2007", "2005-05-23" or "May 26, 2004". Full dates should also be linked, thus: May 26, 2004.
 * The page could use some more images.
 * Thanks for taking the time to review it. I will work on the Lead(lede).  I do not know how precise I can get on the vision, I'll look into it.  They do not appear to mate for life, this is a tricky area as a few years ago these animals were on the brink of extinction.  I'm a Yank, so the units are US, sorry about that; I'll attempt a conversion.  I will take your advise on wikilinking the units and be more consistent on the dates.  As for more pictures, I'll work on that...the animals I own are not pure but hybrids with Lesser Caymans and Cubans...pure bred specemins are only found in zoos and on Grand Cayman.--Mike Searson (talk) 05:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you.&mdash;RJH (talk) 16:55, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

SandyGeorgia review

 * Some of the sources are missing lastaccessdates; some are also missing publishers, examples:
 * Blue Iguanas get helping hand to recovery", April 26, 2005.
 * Hatchlings revive rarest lizard on earth", October 6, 2006.
 * There are also formatting issues in the lastaccessdates, examples:
 * Retrieved on 9 May 2006. (unlinked)
 * Retrieved on September 8, 2007.  (linked incorrectly)
 * I think I found all of these, apparently using "newspaper" in the template does not work?


 * There are WP:HYPHENs instead of endashes on page ranges in citations; you can ask to run a script to address them.


 * I put in a request
 * It would be nice if the books in Further reading had ISBNs.


 * I stripped this out, everything in there was cited in the references so I removed it for redundancy.


 * External links might need pruning per WP:EL, WP:NOT; a comprehensive featured article will have covered everything in the text, so there should be little need for external links, each of them should be there for a defensible reason.


 * I culled the nonessential links.


 * Capitalization has to be worked out: the article title is Blue Iguana, but the first line says Blue iguana.


 * All sources were equally divided on this (literally) I went with Caps on each, same as birds.


 * I'm not certain on capitalization here ... and is a National Symbol of the Cayman Islands.
 * There are a few missing conversions, see, examples:
 * Females were found to occupy territories of 0.6 acres and males an average of 1.4 acres with overlap in common usage areas, indicating that the Blue iguanas chose to maintain a population density of 4-5 animals per hectare.


 * A few WP:MOSNUM mixups on spelling out vs. digits, examples:
 * Anywhere from one to twenty-one eggs are usually laid in ...
 * Individuals are aggressively territorial from the age of about 3 months onward.
 * Another hyphen instead of endash, but Brighterorange should pick these up:
 * Surveys in 2003 indicated a total population in the range of 5-15 individuals.
 * There is some incorrect punctuation in image captions, see WP:MOS regarding the difference in punctuation for full sentences vs. sentence fragments.
 * Run through the entire article for issues of WP:MOSDATE, example:
 * The program now contains only pure specimens, ...
 * Check wikilinking throughout, for example, certainly San Diego Zoo, in ...
 * the species by Tandora Grant of the San Diego Zoo's Center for Conservation and Research for Endangered Species (CRES).
 * See Giant Otter and Sea otter for recent FA examples that contain folklore or popular culture (can't remember what the section is called) interactions with humans.

I'll ask and  to peek in, as they've both written similar articles. Sandy Georgia (Talk) 01:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks, Sandy. I made a few of these changes and will implement more this coming week.--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 02:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Review by
It's a very fine article. I remember reading over it when I saw the GA nomination. Here's some things you might want to include:
 * What is the CR doing up in the taxobox? It leads to a StatusCritical template, but I don't know what it does.
 * The etymology of the scientific name is mentioned, but it would be great if the actual Greek could be provided.
 * I think the organization of the Anatomy and physiology section could be improved by moving the information about senses to a subsection.
 * The five nonprofit organizations mentioned in the lead could be stated more explicitly.

Overall a very well cited and comprehensive article.  bibliomaniac 1 5  Midway upon life's journey... 23:40, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the Feedback!


 * CR is for "Critically Endangered", it was in the taxobox before I started editing and I've seen it on every other reptile article I've worked on.
 * I'll add the Greek...EXCELLENT suggestion !
 * Good suggestion, I'll make the change.
 * Will do!

Thanks again!--Mike - Μολὼν λαβέ 00:04, 20 March 2008 (UTC)