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Petrified Forest National Park
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because I'm planning to take the article to FAC. I'd appreciate any suggestions for further improvement.

Thanks, Finetooth (talk) 19:29, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

I'll give some minor suggestions, it looks good as a whole.


 * It says in the article that the park is in the Navajo and Apache counties, but the infobox only lists the Apache county.


 * You might not need two maps in the infobox. If you could maybe add an inset to the location in Arizona map of the USA with Arizona highlighted, that may be better. I don't see this as a real problem though, so not something that has to be worried about. (there is a random "ia" at the end of the second maps caption though)


 * You say that the City of Holbrook is the nearest "large settlement", might be worth clarifying what a large settlement is.


 * Add a "the" before "Old Highway 180" (unless of course it's meant to be like that)


 * It might be worth adding before the elevations "a low of" and "a high of", just because the low is over 5000ft, which isn't very low at all!


 * "Petrified Forest National Park in the Painted Desert" needs to be reworded somehow. Do you mean "The area of Petrified Forest National Park in the Painted Desert"?


 * In History, it might be worth moving the sole paragraph about Europeans into the previous section, as the time the park was part of the USA is probably more deserved of its own section. The first section could be changed to preUSA or something.


 * It might be worth moving the last paragraph of the Flora section to after the first. Both the first paragraph and that one describe the environment, while the others describe the actual Flora.


 * The fauna section reads well, but the first sentence seems arbitrary, like a list of animals has been randomly thrown together. Maybe you could word it to say some of the larger animals, or some of the mammals. Either way you may want to add the Bobcat, if it's applicable.


 * The list of animals that eat Prairie dogs may not be needed. If you could word it somehow like the current sentence about the hare is worded, in such a way that some ability or behaviour is described that helps them deal with that list of animals, it may be better (the hare sentence describes their routes of travel and how it helps them avoid eagles).


 * You may have to remove one of the Fauna pictures unfortunately. I'm getting some text sandwiching in my browser. All 3 are beautiful pictures though, so good luck choosing!


 * You might want to reword "keep the same hours as the park in general". As it stands it could mean either that it in general keeps to the same hours as the park, or keeps the same hours as the rest of the park.


 * There are two paragraphs about the Painted Desert Visitor Center and the Painted Desert Inn, the second and the second last of the activities section. Combine?


 * Maybe reorder the sections. It was weird reading about Geology, then History, then Climate. I would have expected Climate near Geology (and geography), as they are more related. Same with Biology. Maybe just move the history section?

Well, hope that helps! Chipmunkdavis (talk) 15:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for these helpful suggestions. I will consider each of them in depth over the coming days and make changes per your advice. Finetooth (talk) 18:57, 3 November 2010 (UTC)