Talk:European pied flycatcher/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MeegsC (talk · contribs) 22:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC) I've never quite had one of these in the garden, but have seen many on various trips. I'll have a close look over the next few days, but here are some initial comments:

• The lead needs to be expanded. It should be a summary of the article. See WP:LEAD for more information.
• Use the bird's common name rather than its scientific name (in captions as well as the article). Other than in the taxonomy section, lose all references to Ficedula hypoleuca.
• Capitalize the bird's name consistently. Per WP:MOS, it's "European Pied Flycatcher".
• The article is missing several key sections: Taxonomy, Habitat and range, and Diet immediately spring to mind.
• All metric measurements should also show imperial units. Use the {{convert}} template.
• All number ranges should use en-dashes rather than hyphens.
• Many paragraphs have no citations. A minimum of one per paragraph is needed.
• The bird is widespread in Europe and Asia, yet the only section about its status talks only about Britain? Why?
• The referencing section needs work. See WP:CITE for help — or use the citation tool (Cite) at the top of the editing box.

I'll go into more detail section by section once you've had a chance to address these more general issues. I'm watch listing this page. Let me know if any of these comments need clarifying! MeegsC (talk) 22:21, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Given that it's been more than 3 weeks and the above concerns have not been addressed, I'm guessing the nominator doesn't have time to complete this now. I'd rate it a solid B, but it needs work before it's ready to be rated GA. MeegsC (talk) 13:33, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

It was an assignment in a college course; as I just noted in Talk:Red-collared Widowbird/GA2, the class ended in December, and submitted about two dozen GANs in late November, including this one. BlueMoonset (talk) 14:26, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm a student that was in the class last fall and I'm trying to get many of the articles to GA classification. I'm starting this one now and will try to address all of the issues in the review before resubmitting it for GA.Gabriel.hassler (talk) 02:18, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

I am a student currently enrolled in this class, and I added ISSN, DOI, and ISBN numbers to various references. ashleynlin (talk) September 26, 2013 —Preceding undated comment added 20:51, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

I am a student in a Behavioral Ecology course. I added some wikilinks and did some minor edits on the lead. aliciacanas (talk) September 26, 2013