174:—are also among the less interesting ones, since unlike all the others they lack any conspicuous specializations, but this remains an intriguing example of unique and long-unrecognized Malagasy diversity. The articles on the two species are featured and good, respectively, and this article is also a GA thanks to a review by Rcej. Thanks for your reviews,
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I'm confused then. When I click on the link, it takes me to the home page. Then, as a reader, how am I supposed to know what to do next to see the page that verifies what's in the article? At this point, the link is completely useless to the reader, as they don't know what they are supposed to be
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I've rewritten both of those sentences. "Characters" is a term I often see in the literature, but there are alternatives. I think technically a "character" such as length of the incisive foramen can have several "states" (i.e., short, long, intermediate). For some characters, different species of
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How many different pages are we talking about? Perhaps a note of the sort "information can be found on website by searching for x and y"? Or perhaps piping the link through the title instead of the chapter (section?), so that it's more obvious to readers that the link is taking you to the entire
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It could, but I don't think it's desirable. I could link it to the page on
Muroidea, but the references in this article are not to the piece about Muroidea per se, but about other taxa, and linking to this particular page is not very helpful. Because the references in the article are to various
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If you want, I can try writing to
Carleton and inquire about photos for both of the two species. Do you have a recent email address for him? Granted, if I succeed, we'll have to wait on the OTRS process, but I may be able to enlist a volunteer to expedite the
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I am trying to help Ucucha with this, but I struck out with
Carleton and now I'm hoping that he will put me in touch with Goodman. Apparently Goodman is the only person who would have pictures of these species. Let's keep our fingers crossed.
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Distribution, "have been found in
Mahajanga Province". As provinces were abolished in 2009, perhaps this might be better written as "...found in what was previously Mahajanga Province" or something similar. Or find out which of the regions
222:- File:Madagascar_rivers.svg (one of the source files) cites as a source a multi-page PDF that needs page number(s) added. Also, is "records" the correct word in the caption? I would use "Recorded sightings" or something of that nature.
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Description, "among other characters. In other characters," First of all, redundant. Second, this is the first time I've seen "characters" used in this way. Is this a common biological usage? IMO, "characteristics" might fit better
606:"These genera are more distantly related to the other nesomyine genera and then to the other subfamilies of the family Nesomyidae, which occur in mainland Africa." the "and then" part is confusing me, should this be "than"?
471:"However, all species of Eliurus have a pronounced tuft of elongated hairs at the tip of the tail, a structure that..." – Is that a "structure" or a "feature" or "characteristic"? Just sounds like an odd word choice.
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When I click on the link for "Musser, G.G.; Carleton, M.D. (2005). "Superfamily
Muroidea"" in the Literature cited section it takes me to the main MSW homepage. Any way this can be made more specific?
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Description, "In other characters, Voalavo shows one of several states seen among
Eliurus species." Not sure what this is trying to say. What is "states" referring to in this context?
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Thanks for the check. I try to always be on my guard against close paraphrasing, but it's good to have some independent confirmation that I'm doing well in that regard.
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I don't remember if we've talked about this before, but isn't it odd that the IUCN citations are the only ones that don't have the publication year in parentheses?
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It's probably in Boeny, Sofia, or both, but the source is not specific. I've put in "former" and hope the future publication of this stuff will be more specific.
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I've written to him and he didn't have any. I've asked him to put me in touch to
Goodman, but we'll see if I ever hear anything back. It was worth a shot. –
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Thanks for that. Nikkimaria, "records" is a standard term in this context. It's actually places where they have been trapped; I doubt anyone has seen a
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Malagasy rodents, discovered only in 1998. Unfortunately, the most recently discovered genera of Malagasy rodents—this one and
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Distribution - Is there any more information that could be given in this section? Predators? Where does it live (burrows, grass nests, hollow logs)?
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What would the alternative be? If I link to some subpage, the reader will still be confused about how to verify a statement that is somewhere else.
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not linked for a reason? Also, the sentence it's in is a teaser—it doesn't say how exactly it compares in size. Can (or should) that be fixed?
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Neither of these seems feasible to me; I've just removed the link as it is not helpful for verifying the references as used in this article.
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335:"In the skull, the facial skeleton is long and the braincase is smooth." To me "In the skull" sounds weird... maybe "With the skull"?
186:: The only issue is whether it would be more consistent to use "et al." for the three-name string. Otherwise all looks in good order.
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