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Malagasy hippopotamus 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.

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Date	Process	Result
August 12, 2007	Good article nominee	Listed
July 12, 2009	Good article reassessment	Kept

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 10, 2007.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?

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Few researchers

Very few researchers study the extinct malagasy hippopotamus! This is nearly every academic paper ever written about them! --JayHenry 06:43, 5 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't the article be split, though? It seems to be an unnatural grouping. FunkMonk (talk) 14:16, 1 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Overall, the article is very well written and well studied. Quite impressive. I believe it overall meets the Good Article criteria, and have promoted to to GA status. There are a couple areas where it could be improved, however, which could help the article achieve featured status. First, the lead could be improved to provide a better summary of the article as a whole. Ideally, a sentence or two on each of the major topics the article will discuss should be in the lead. There also shouldn't be any references here, either (since it's a summary, the references should be included later on in the article). Please review WP:LEAD for more information on writing a good lead section for an article.

Also, looking at the external link provided at the end of the article [1], I noticed two bits of information that probably should be mentioned somewhere:

That the dwarf hippo probably "came to the island [Madagascar] about 1,6 million years ago."
"The skeleton indicates that the animal lived mainly on land, while the recent African Hippoes live mainly in rivers and lakes."

Some photos of fossils, or possibly illustrations, could also improve the article further.

But overall, these are suggestions for getting the article up to FA standards. I don't think the lack of this would prevent GA status, as the article is already very well written and well researched. Cheers! Dr. Cash 19:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Malagasy Hippopotamus/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

GA Sweeps: Kept

As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing Sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria. I went through the article and made various changes, please look them over. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good Article. Altogether the article is well-written and is still in great shape after its passing in 2007. Continue to improve the article making sure all new information is properly sourced and neutral. It would be beneficial to update the access dates for the sources. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. I have updated the article history to reflect this review. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 06:05, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Split

@FunkMonk: proposed the splitting of this article into species articles.

Split to the species to maintain consistency with all other paleontology articles.--Kev min § 17:19, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this is not even a taxon, but a term covering a geographical area, like saying "European elephant" or something. FunkMonk (talk) 17:59, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Split per FunkMonk. Rlendog (talk) 16:00, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]