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GA Review

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GA review (see here for criteria)
  • It is reasonably well written.
a (prose):
  • "Large and notorious" - not a very precise way of putting this, notorious amongst whom? Notorious for what?
  • "It" - constantly repeated in the lead. Try interspersing "this snake" or "A. piscivorus" to break it up a little
  • Link or define "nominate subspecies" - technical term
  • "integradation" - undefined and unlinked technical term
  • "possibly extirpated" - a bit floridly-worded maybe just say "probably extinct"
  • "The population trend is stable. Year assessed: 2007" - merge into a single grammatical sentence.
  • "Constant persecution and drainage of wetlands" - unintentionally funny! Wetlands are not persecuted.
  • The huge list of food species is not particularly informative, might be better to summarise along the lines of "Frogs, newts, fish, snails.."
  • Lead fails to summarise the article, should at least touch on the main sections in the text.
  • Don't mix feet and inches, and cm and mm as units
  • cc is not a standard unit, millilitres are the direct SI equivalent.
a (references): Good
b (citations to reliable sources): yes
c (OR): no
  • It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): yes
b (focused): yes
Fair representation without bias: yes
  • It is stable.
No edit wars etc.: yes
  • It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): Cottonmouth Snake, Gaping.jpg could swap to the FDA-gov tag
b (appropriate use with suitable captions): yes

Overall:

On hold
Overall pretty damn good, just some tweaks needed. Nice work! Tim Vickers (talk) 03:58, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

So far, I've addressed almost all of your points, even to the extent of creating a new article: Intergradation. I guess the introduction can still be expanded, but I'm not in favor of summarizing the list of reported prey species: I believe it is informative, even to the extent of being entertaining! But, I'll admit that you probably have to be more into the subject to appreciate that level of detail. --Jwinius (talk) 21:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that's up to you. Very good work, congratulations! Tim Vickers (talk) 21:51, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]