Suggestions to bring the page Southern right whale (SRW) page from a B- to A-rating:
- Consolidation of similar information:
- Example 1: The first 2 paragraphs of Taxonomy could be merged into 1, or at the very least lateralise the information concerning species and genus into different paragraphs. Suggesting an edit "Right whales were first classified in the genus Balaena in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, who at the time considered all right whales (including the bowhead) to be a single species. Eventually, it was recognized that bowheads and right whales were in fact different, and John Edward Gray proposed the genus Eubalaena for the right whale in 1864."
- Example 2: 2nd paragraph of Description is a literacy mess. Reference 12 is repeated twice within 1 sentence.
- Additional reference materials needed:
- Example 1: References for classifications needed.
- Example 2: Within Description, the initial description lacks reference until the mention of the whale's commensal barnacles.
- Example 3: Declaration of SRW as a limiting factor that prevents the crossing of tropical water on Paragraph 3 needs a reference. I found a paper which argued otherwise [1].
- Example 4: Declaration of hyperactivity near human in comparison to other baleen whales need referencing.
- Example 5: Assertion that SRW feeds near/in the Antarctic waters need references. A suggested paper [2]. There is a number of papers detailing the use of radiotracers/isotope trackers to follow SRW migratory paths.
- Limited in-text citation within the page.
- Rosenbaum et al. (2000)'s genetic paper was mentioned twice within article. However, end-text citation was only done in the 2nd mention.
- ^ Kvadsheim, P.H.; Folkow, L.P.; Blix, A.S. (1996-04). "Thermal conductivity of minke whale blubber". Journal of Thermal Biology. 21 (2): 123–128. doi:10.1016/0306-4565(95)00034-8. ISSN 0306-4565.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Best, P. B.; Schell, D. M. (1996-02). "Stable isotopes in southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) baleen as indicators of seasonal movements, feeding and growth". Marine Biology. 124 (4): 483–494. doi:10.1007/bf00351030. ISSN 0025-3162.
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