Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Bluebuck

Bluebuck

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/November 17, 2016 by - Dank (push to talk) 12:25, 3 November 2016 (UTC)



The bluebuck (Hippotragus leucophaeus) was a species of South Africaan antelope that became extinct around 1800. It was congeneric with the roan antelope and sable antelope, but smaller than either. The largest mounted bluebuck specimen is 119 cm tall at the withers. Its horns measure 56.5 cm along the curve. The coat was bluish-grey, with a pale whitish belly. The bluebuck was a grazer, and may have calved where rainfall would peak. It was confined to the southwestern Cape when encountered by Europeans in the seventeenth century, but fossil evidence and rock paintings show that while its original distributionb was muich wider, its preferred grassland habitat was reduced to a 4,300 sqkm range. The first published mention of the bluebuck is from 1681, and few descriptions of the animal were written while it existed. It was hunted by European settlers, and wiped out around 1800; the first large African mammal to face extinction in historical times. Only four mounted specimens remain - in Leiden, Stockholm, Vienna and Paris museums.
 * Most recent similar article(s): millipedes (10 November) are also animals but very different
 * Main editors: FunkMonk, Sainsf, 7&6=thirteen
 * Promoted: September 2016
 * Reasons for nomination: colour in November
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:23, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, the blurb is attractive and attention getting, and the subject is fascinating and click bait. But the lead image, euf, is a bit lurid - would much prefer File:BlueAntelope1801.jpg. Main editors? Ceoil (talk) 09:02, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Just a note that I've done tentative scheduling for November and I need another biology article, on the 17th. I generally try to let votes anywhere on Wikipedia run for 7 days if possible, so I won't close this TFAR out, but I'm going to pencil this article in at TFA for the 17th, and only pull it if objections arise here at TFAR. - Dank (push to talk) 21:49, 29 October 2016 (UTC)