Talk:Pygmy marmoset/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs) 14:37, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

I plan to review this article and hope to post further comments here when the initial problems are addressed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Before I go through the article in detail there are some things you could attend to.

• In the Behavior section there is a tag "citation needed". This will need dealing with.
• The lead should be a summary of what is contained in the rest of the article and should not introduce information not mentioned elsewhere. Nor does it usually have references because the facts mentioned in the lead should be referenced when they occur in the body of the article. At the moment the lead is not an adequate summary of the contents of the article.
• At the moment some paragraphs have no references. There should be at least one per paragraph and more when information comes from multiple sources. See here for guidance on writing references. "Wikipedia's Verifiability policy requires inline citations for any material challenged or likely to be challenged, and for all quotations, anywhere in article space. However, editors are advised to provide citations for all material added to Wikipedia." The references in the article at the moment are well formatted and you should keep to the same style. Reference 6 is a bare url and needs attention.
• The description section is inadequate. At the moment it is limited to size and weight data.

If you need any help ask here or on my talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:37, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

At present, every paragraph in fact has at least one citation. WolfmanSF (talk) 18:28, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

Ref. 6 is now wikified. WolfmanSF (talk)

Maybe I was a bit harsh! Most of the article is well referenced but the Behavior and Physical description sections need further referencing. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:23, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

The "citation needed" has been eliminated. WolfmanSF (talk) 04:40, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

I have updated the lead of the article so that there are no references and added a habitat section so that all the information in the lead is contained within the article. Are there any other things that need to be done before it can be reviewed for good article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by E.middlebrook (talk • contribs) 22:43, 19 December 2012 (UTC)

The article could use a section on conservation. LittleJerry (talk) 02:19, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Review by Jack

The article has improved a lot, and it's great to see continued interest after the Washington University course has finished. Some quick points: be careful to check your work once you've written it, I've seen a few missed spaces after punctuation, or extra spaces before references; there must be a Conservation section to pass the GAN (per WP:PRIM; the lead needs expanding; there needs to be most consistency in the references, some have full author names while others have initials, some links need to changed to the pdf rather than the overview page (Jackson2011), and you generally don't need to wikilink the journal titles. Okay, I shall now begin! Jack (talk) 10:26, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Lead

• Doesn't adequately summarise the article, e.g. no information on morphology, behaviour, and very little on ecology. This is often cited as the smallest primate in the world, tell the readers! If it isn't (Madame Berthe's mouse lemur is), then let them know it was thought to be the smallest, until the discovery of a smaller species.

• dwarf monkey Is the species really called this? I can find no reference to it in Google Scholar, nor MSW3, nor IUCN.

• but also can be found in secondary forest and moderately disturbed forest. Not mentioned in body.

• Pygmy marmosets live 11-12 years in the wild, but in zoos, they live into their early twenties. Not mentioned or referenced in the body.

Evolution and taxonomy

• 1990's No apostrophe.

• no longer paraphyletic. [3] Space before reference.

Physical description

• I like sections to be self contained, so rather than starting It is one..., you could begin The pygmy marmoset is one... However, I don't think this is necessary for GA.

• No mention in this section of fur colour, claws (instead of nails like most primates), and adaptations in teeth morphology to allow for exudate feeding.

• its body length ranging from 14 to 16 centimetres (5.5 to 6.3 in) (excluding the 15-to-20-centimetre (5.9 to 7.9 in) tail) The source says: "Adults are about five inches (13 cm) long with an eight-inch (20 cm) tail". There should be a better source than a zoo website for this information.

• Males weigh around 140 grams (4.9 oz), and females only 120 grams (4.2 oz). No reference, not good because infact females are heavier than males.

• Nicknames for this monkey often refer to its diminutiveness, for example: mono de bolsillo ("pocket monkey"), leoncito ("little lion"). No reference.

• The pygmy marmoset walks on all four limbs. [6] Space before reference.

Behavior

• Pygmy marmosets live in groups made up of 1-2 adult males and 1-2 adult females, with a single breeding female and her offspring, ranging from 5-9 members. Strange structure, maybe this would be better: A pygmy marmoset group, ranging from 5-9 members, contains 1-2 adult males and 1-2 adult females, including a single breeding female and her offspring.

/Communication

• The pygmy marmoset... Pygmy marmosets...' Be careful not to switch between singular and plural. Species articles are always written in the singular, exceptions apply when specifically talking about groups.

• Since the pygmy marmoset is often found in the rain forest, plant life, as well as the atmosphere, add to the normal absorption and scattering of sound. Change ...as well as the... to ...and the humid....

Ecology

• Day ranges, home ranges, where they sleep, densities, predation?

/Geographic range and habitat

• There needs to be more information about the habitat. What type of vegetation is characteristic of the understory? What type of rainforest?

• ...Columbia, Ecuador,Boliva, and Peru. Space needed.

/Diet

• How long do they feed before moving on? How often do they return to the same tree?

• When the gum production resources, usually just 1-2 trees, of its home range (0.1 to 0.4 ha) become depleted, a group moves to a new home range. Clumsy sentence, needs rewording. Maybe move the home range data to the Ecology section introduction along with the other information I mentioned above?

Summing up

Rate	Attribute	Review Comment
1. Well-written:
	1a. the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct.	Most of the prose is good. There are a few points made by Jack above which have not been addressed
	1b. it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation.	The article is unbalanced. Some parts are excellent (the Behavior section) and others are defficient. The lead still includes information not found in the body of the article such as the forest habitat. The lead section should include a brief summary of the Behavior section.
2. Verifiable with no original research:
	2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.	Most of the referencing is good
	2b. reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose).	It includes suitable inline citations.
	2c. it contains no original research.	Not as far as I can see
3. Broad in its coverage:
	3a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic.	The Physical Description section is inadequate. Improving this would be easy. The Habitat section and the Ecology section need enlarging.
	3b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).	Yes
	4. Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each.	The article is neutral.
	5. Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute.	The article is stable.
6. Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio:
	6a. media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content.	Images are appropriately licensed
	6b. media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.	Article could do with some more images with appropriate captions
	7. Overall assessment.	Article needs some more work before it reaches the GA criteria. I will put this review on hold for one week to give time for the above points to be addressed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:34, 31 December 2012 (UTC) Article does not meet all the GA criteria. The lead is not a good summary of the rest of the article and the article is not sufficiently broad in its scope. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:02, 10 January 2013 (UTC)