Talk:Australian swellshark

Australian swellshark has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 18, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 14, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Australian swellshark (pictured) can survive out of water for more than a day?

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Copyright problem removed[edit]

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Australian swellshark/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

This article was nominated for good article status. The review began on September 17, 2009. Below is an evaluation of the article, according to the six good article criteria.

I'll be reviewing this article for GA quality.--Giants 27(c|s) 18:58, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

1. Well written?:

Prose quality:

Manual of Style compliance:

2. Factually accurate and verifiable?:

References to sources:

Citations to reliable sources, where required:

No original research:

3. Broad in coverage?:

Major aspects:

Focused:

4. Reflects a neutral point of view?:

Fair representation without bias:

5. Reasonably stable?

No edit wars, etc. (Vandalism does not count against GA):

6. Illustrated by images, when possible and appropriate?:

Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:

Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:

Overall:

Pass or Fail:

Very nice work. Extremely engaging and focused. Consider reviewing another GA to help out the backlog. Cheers,--Giants 27(c|s) 19:06, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! -- Yzx (talk) 22:09, 18 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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