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A fact from Megaceroides algericus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Megaceroides algericus.

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:19, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Drawing of skull from Aïn Bénian, Algeria

... that Megaceroides algericus is one of only two deer species known to have been native to Africa, alongside the Barbary stag? Source:"The paleontological record and modern fauna give only two examples of successful evolutionary survival of cervids on the African continent: Megaceroides algericus (Lydekker, 1890) and Cervus elaphus barbarus Bennet, 1833 (Gentry,2010)". Croitor, 2016

Reviewed I have less than 5 DYK credits

Created by Hemiauchenia (talk). Self-nominated at 23:57, 1 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

without image/ with image: New enough (April 24), long enough (4,898 characters), neutral, well-cited, and without close paraphrasing/copyvio issues. Hook is short enough (I switched the placement of the "only" in it), interesting, cited in article to Croitor 2016 which is in turn backed up by Gentry 2010. Would it be possible to integrate this info elsewhere into the article...it's in the lede but nowhere else. QPQ not needed. I'm not sure about the image, since it's your work, Hemiauchenia, but it appears to be a redraw of a copyrighted line drawing from Croitor 2016. I'd say good to go without the image or if someone with better copyright knowledge than I wants to weigh in on the status of chosen image, that would be great. —Collin^{t c} 19:39, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Bobamnertiopsis: The image was directly drawn from the photograph of the fossil in figure 2 the paper, not Croitor's line drawing. This is visible in numerous areas, like noticeable differences in line outlines, it's just that because they draw from the same source (the same skull in side view) they inevitably look very similar.

I did a drawing of the skull in top-down view, which is clearly original, as no top-down view drawing was presented in the paper. However, I can imagine though that since both images are predomiantly white that they would be poorly suited to the tiny image size of the dyk section of the front page, so it's probably best to leave them out, as there are far more worthy image candidates that would suit the smaller size and resolution. Hemiauchenia (talk) 20:10, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great, I think that's a valid rationale. I'm ticking the hook with or without the images, though I agree with your assessment that as line drawings, they're probably not the juiciest DYK images. Great work. —Collin^{t c} 20:56, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]