Talk:Miniopterus mahafaliensis

Miniopterus mahafaliensis 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
August 13, 2010	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 24, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that recent molecular and morphological research has led to the identification of five species within the Malagasy bat species Miniopterus manavi—M. aelleni, M. brachytragos, M. griveaudi, M. mahafaliensis, and M. manavi itself?

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GA Review

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

Reviewer: Twilight Helryx 16:10, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for taking up this review. I just applied a series of changes per the previous GANs for species of this group. Ucucha 17:06, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality:

Looks good.--Twilight Helryx 19:06, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

B. MoS compliance:
Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources:

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:

C. No original research:

Everything is well sourced.--Twilight Helryx 19:06, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is it broad in its coverage?

As broad as this type of article can get.--Twilight Helryx 19:06, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A. Major aspects:

B. Focused:
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias:
Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc:

Obviously none. =P --Twilight Helryx 19:06, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?

After a quick web search, it a appears that there aren't any usable images for this bat specie.--Twilight Helryx 19:06, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have

fair use rationales:

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:

Congratulations! This article passed!

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Wonderful! My first GA nomination, and it passed! Wilhelmina Will (talk) 20:51, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]