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Reassessment of ? Nycticebus linglom

Hi there! I just wanted to point your attention to the fact that I've listed the page ? Nycticebus linglom for reassessment (link to discussion here), as I'm a little worried that it relying on a single source might hint at some problems with notability, and I'd appreciate your input. Thanks! –LogStar100 (talk) 23:30, 25 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@LogStar100: Looks like Ucucha handled it. – Maky ^« talk » 04:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Seeking for help editing an article

Hello Maky I am a student who is new to Wikipedia. One of my courses consists in editing and updating the Kirindy Forest Wikipedia page, I saw that you edited the Kirindy Mitea National Park page and was wondering if you would be able to provide me with some feedback and help me improve it.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated :) --Marie Salichon (talk) 01:58, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Marie Salichon: I'm not Trappist the monk, but I can offer some feedback. Overall, I'm impressed with your work. In particular, you cite your sources and use proper citation templates. You've added a lot of valuable material, and most of what needs to be done involves clean-up. First of all, I'd advise running your work through a grammar checker of some kind. I noticed several sentence fragments, such as "Measuring up to 30 meters" and "The Adansonia rubrostipa also known as fony baobab." Although you want to be careful not to plagiarize and aim to paraphrase, try to weave the material together into an objective narrative rather than simply stating fact after fact. Some parts of the article are little more than lists. (See the Manual of Style regarding lists.)

The sections also don't need so many subheadings, especially when they're only a few sentences or a single paragraph in length. If people want to read about lemurs, they'll easily find them under the "Fauna" section. Anyway, lemurs are mammals, so having two separate subheadings is contradictory. Also, there's no need for putting citations, such as "(Baum, 1995)" in the text, and statements such as "According to [7]" need to be spelled out. Otherwise, there are other minor issues. Geographical coordinates can stay in the infobox and don't need to be mentioned in the body, scientific names should be italicized, and units of measurements would benefit from the use of the Convert template.

Keep up the good work! – Maky ^« talk » 05:18, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I forgot to mention: The introduction of the article could be a bit longer. It generally doesn't require citations as long as it summarizes cited information from the body of the article. The goal of the introduction is to briefly summarize the article by highlighting the key points. – Maky ^« talk » 05:21, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Maki, thank you very much for your feedback, I will take it into consideration and make the required changes, I really appreciated your response, it will be of great help for me to improve the article, Have a great day :) --Marie Salichon (talk) 07:12, 22 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:17, 13 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]