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159: 897:"Beaver activity can affect the temperature of the water. In northern latitudes, ice thaws earlier in beaver-inhabited waters than in those without beavers. Beavers may contribute to climate change. In Arctic areas, the floods they create can cause permafrost to thaw, releasing methane into the atmosphere." I feel like this could be 1 sentence 690:
the tendency to get trivial or to cherry-pick examples there is gone. The breadth of sourcing used here is also much greater and more representative. Formatting is acceptable - a few minor inconsistencies, but nothing distracting, incomplete, or problematic. I will be doing spot checks for close paraphrasing and source-text integrity soon.
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With the exception of Vice, I think the sources are all high-quality RS for what they are citing. After looking through the sources and what they are supporting, I don't see any red flags of things that are likely dated. The section about beavers in culture is also much better written and sourced;
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and thanks for the email. Three supports is the minimum required for a nomination for, possibly, it to be considered that a consensus for promotion has formed. And this has been open for less than four weeks. I would like to leave it for a little longer to see if it can attract further suggestions
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for improvements. I know all too well how difficult it can be to be patient while hoping and waiting for a FAC to be promoted, but all I can suggest is sticking with it and seeing what the next few days brings.
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I'm pleased to see predators and parasites considered. In bird articles we often have an EL to vocalisations, is there anything similar for our furry friends here?
272:, Miocene, larynx, and trachea should all be linked at the first mention. There's probably more that need to be linked, those were just the first four I noticed. 40: 1264:"Beaver tails were thus a delicacy in Europe and were described as having the flavor of a nicely dressed eel" you should specify it was described by 1333: 30: 17: 160:
File:Image taken from page 108 of 'Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Captain L. Sitgreaves (white background).jpg
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Is there a reason some of the sources are separated out into a bibliograohy section rather than being cited like the other sources?
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I can't access all of the sources, but I spot-checked five statements that I could check and found no issues. Results at
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I've been working on this in since the last FAC and hope the major issues have been addressed. I would like to thank
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That is not when Castoridae evolved. Removed range since sources are not clear on the exact mya in which
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I assumed the ice thaws early because their floods release methane and contribute to regional warming?
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The bibilography sources are used for multiple pages thoughout, the others have a specific page range.
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The basic unit of beaver social organization is the family, which is comprised of an adult male and...
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only their webbed hind feet are used for propelling while the front feet are tucked under the chest.
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This isn't a huge deal, but since you're linking the names of the journals with article,
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has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see
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The image shows both front and back feet, the tail and head. Would have liked to use
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The whole three sentences about the tail also read a little clunky and disconnected.
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Why does the taxobox give a range from 24 mya? That's when Castoridae evolved, not
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Ref 114 (Riley, "Restoring Neighborhood Streams ...") lacks a publishing location.
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Next to humans, no other extant animal appears to do more to shape its environment.
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I'm not any sort of FA reviewer, but I'm taking a look-see in hopes of learning.
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First sentence of the Family life section is a bit unclear. Maybe change to
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75 percent of the air in its lungs, compared to 15 percent for a human.
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That would be a huge sentence. And they are two different subjects.
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Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in
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This looks so much better than it did back at Beaver/archive1.
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entry for it says there's no consensus on basic reliability
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Claiming. Will do soon. Might claim for WikiCup points.
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Date should be the original publication date. What is it?
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File:Beaver Yearling Grooming Alhambra Creek 2008.jpg
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Looks pretty good to me, just a few thoughts below:
1371:The above discussion is preserved as an archive. 1019:Because rodents have a bad reputation. See rats. 783:Beavers are territorial and mark them using scent 41:Knowledge (XXG) talk:Featured article candidates 1070:No, but is "capitalized" the best word to use? 945:No. Its become damming makes the water warmer. 43:. No further edits should be made to this page. 130:Optional: Use a higher resolution header image 1377:No further edits should be made to this page. 1350:template in place on the talk page until the 1056:I'm not describing their whole relationship. 325:Comma needed after "webbing between the toes" 29:The following is an archived discussion of a 8: 18:Knowledge (XXG):Featured article candidates 357:part is a little clunky. Maybe change to 1206:fossil record. It says the earliest is 443:Canada Geese needs to be sentence case. 236:Is there nothing more to be said about 180:Other image licensing looks OK to me. 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Sourcing looks fine to me. 169:It states in the Description " 1: 197:23:59, 28 February 2021 (UTC) 120:22:32, 28 February 2021 (UTC) 91:22:32, 28 February 2021 (UTC) 598:Journal of Wildlife Diseases 300:Shouldn't that be unusually? 1345:featured article candidates 1202:has a good overview of the 785:— isn't quite grammatical, 658:being high-quality RS; the 31:featured article nomination 1394: 1364:12:04, 29 March 2021 (UTC) 1324:22:44, 26 March 2021 (UTC) 1297:16:59, 24 March 2021 (UTC) 1279:14:26, 24 March 2021 (UTC) 1259:01:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC) 1235:20:50, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1221:19:33, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1195:12:54, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1173:20:25, 20 March 2021 (UTC) 1141:18:22, 23 March 2021 (UTC) 1124:03:00, 23 March 2021 (UTC) 1110:01:54, 23 March 2021 (UTC) 1099:what does the source say? 1095:18:50, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1081:18:03, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1066:12:54, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1048:20:25, 20 March 2021 (UTC) 1029:12:54, 21 March 2021 (UTC) 1011:20:25, 20 March 2021 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Index

Knowledge (XXG):Featured article candidates
featured article nomination
Knowledge (XXG) talk:Featured article candidates
Gog the Mild
FACBot
talk

Beaver
LittleJerry
talk
22:32, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
Dieter.Meinertzhagen
Twofingered Typist
SandyGeorgia
LittleJerry
talk
22:32, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
File:Beaver Yearling Grooming Alhambra Creek 2008.jpg
LittleJerry
talk
00:21, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
File:Image taken from page 108 of 'Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers by Captain L. Sitgreaves (white background).jpg
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buidhe
23:59, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
LittleJerry
talk
12:55, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
LittleJerry

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