Talk:Pig/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Wolverine XI (talk · contribs) 12:19, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

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Placing my spot. Wolverine XI ^{(den • 🐾)} 12:19, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Gloucester Old Spot? — Many thanks for taking this on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:26, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

@Chiswick Chap: Sorry for the 24-hour wait; I had some business to attend to. Starting the review now. Wolverine XI ^{(den • 🐾)} 13:49, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Prose

• Change the lead image; I'm seeing half-pigs, full pigs and more pink. With that image, I can't really tell how a pig's body looks like.
  • Done.

• swine What is this? I've never heard of it. In other words, I don't think that's common
  • 87 million g-hits says otherwise. Usage varies by country. Said "also" rather than "often".

• when distinguishing from other members of the genus Sus Cut and start a new sentence.
  • Done.

• It is variously considered This doesn't make sense
  • It does actually, but I've reworded it for you.

• When these arrived in Europe The problem here is obvious
  • Edited.

• Mention something about bacon in the lead
  • Added.

• pig producer A pig is an animal not a product. Are you saying China breeds the most pigs?
  • Edited. Yes.

• In the male to In males
  • Edited, but both forms are standard English.

• by constantly being ground against each other. I don't think the grammar is right here
  • Edited.

• Pigs have a maximum life span of about 27 years. Would make more sense in reproduction.
  • Moved.

• We are missing body weight, body length, height shoulder, size variation, and size records.
  • Added.

• in a way similar to the way they are Redundancy
  • Edited.

• as rural populations focused instead on commodity-producing livestock put instead before focused
  • Done, but both forms are standard English.

• More recently 2007 was 17 years ago; I remember very little from that year, so it's not recent.
  • Certainly much more recent than the Neolithic, which is what the "more" is saying.

• Historical records indicate that Asian pigs were again introduced into Europe during the 18th and early 19th centuries. How? What happened? We need to know more.
  • They interbred, what else. I think this is quite sufficient here for a general readership; it's enough to indicate a complex history of introductions and reintroductions.

• The Neolithic thing should go under History
  • No, domestication was the critical stage, and it was in the Neolithic, a period of prehistory.

• Escaped pigs became feral, disrupting the lives of Native Americans. How? Did their presence disturb people?
  • Removed the 'disrupting' bit.

• With a population of around 1 billion individuals, the domesticated pig is one of the most numerous large mammals on the planet. This has nothing to do with the Columbian Exchange
  • Moved to Agriculture.

• Ref bomb in feral pigs
  • Fixed.

• For feral pigs, you really need to say how they are disruptive and it needs expansion. The info is vary sparse and does not satisfy the reader.
  • Added.

• pregnancy to be established. Doesn't sound right
  • Edited, but again it's standard usage.

• Maternal recognition of pregnancy in pigs So mothers realize they are pregnant? Why is this important?
  • Edited. It's the body not the conscious mind, and the process triggers critical hormonal changes.

• To avoid luteolysis by PGF2α, rescuing of the corpus luteum must occur via embryonic signaling of estradiol 17β and PGE2. Too technical; a normal reader won't comprehend this.
  • Yeah, simplified.

• Mention how piglets are farmed and taken from their mothers

• No, we need a section on intelligence, pigs are way too smart. A single mention won't do it
  • Added.

• Nest-building, teat order & Nursing should go under reproduction
  • Moved.

• use is made of this in Europe. Please rephrase
  • Edited.

• Mention that pigs have a better sense of smell than dogs, and are sometimes used for this purpose. Also, just how strong is a pig's sense of smell?
  • Mentioned and cited in Senses. The scientists are very chary of saying "better than", preferring things they can actually measure.

• Slaughterhouse, bacon? Come on, I thought bacon was big, at least mention which part is used.
  • Added.

• Don't farmers cut their tails or something?
  • Added.

• How many pig breeds are there? At least in the US.
  • Added and cited. Best we stay global not regional. The section does in fact name 3 American breeds already.

• I'm a Christian and I read somewhere in the Bible that pigs were unclean, explain that please.
  • Mentioned they're forbidden in Judaism, and cited the verse that says so.

More to come. Wolverine XI ^{(den • 🐾)} 14:54, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Sources

• Corbet and Hill (1992) needs page nos.
  • Removed.

• Hughes, Paul (1980) needs page nos.
  • Removed.

• Gonyou, H. W. (2001) needs page nos.
  • Done.

• Herron, Alan J. (5 December 2009) Rm the quote, ditto in ref 101
  • Done both.

• 104 needs date
  • The source does not give a date. The op. was on 25 September 2021 and the access-date is 2 November 2021, so we're pretty close.

• Valerie Porter (2016) don't spell out page
  • Formatted.

I'm done with the review. Wolverine XI ^{(den • 🐾)} 20:35, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

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