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What's a "breastbone"? The whole article needs careful copy-editing, if not translation into English. Please check every sentence and redraft if necessary. Article copy-edited
Lead: is written as a short article. Suggest complete rewrite of lead (move refs to body, or discard) to summarize rest of article. Done Fiction: n/a Lists n/a Layout OK weasel words OK
2a. it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline.
(just 2 external links, no booklist)
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).
Refs are ok; would be nice if it chose Surname, Forenames (or Surname, Initials) or vice versa (Forename Surname) etc, but this is not a GA requirement.
I don't think that the prose is so bad. I also had difficulties in understanding some of the jargon. For example, crystallize is the same as resinate.--Tomcat(7)17:09, 27 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Hmm. The plain meaning of crystallize, which is just one example from many, is to form a crystalline array of atoms or molecules, plainly not what is intended here. To resinate is I guess to fill with sticky resin, not a word in my vocabulary which I can assure you is literate and widely-read in several languages. The problem with the article, however, is not the occasional word, but the many sentences that sound as if they've been machine-translated. I note that the anonymous users who've scored the page on various metrics seemed to agree on this point, scoring "well-written" very low - though all the scores have now vanished. Here's a random sentence: "The host larvae are located to the surrounding wood via the antennae with the aid of the smell of leaking drill dust or fungus myzel, weak vibrations or differences in temperature." I guess that's mycelium; and the sentence probably means "The parasite locates host larvae hidden in the wood ..." - well, what do you think? Not too bad, eh? Try a few sentences for yourself. Chiswick Chap (talk) 18:05, 27 November 2012 (UTC)Reply