Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/King Vulture

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted 04:16, 23 October 2007.

King Vulture edit

Self-nomination Another bird and vulture article (to go with California Condor). I've done quite a bit of work on this article as part of the potential New World Vulture featured topic and believe that it matches the featured article criteria. It is very comprehensive and well-cited. It flows well and has some pretty good images to go with it. If there are any problems, I'll fix them as soon as I can. Thanks. Rufous-crowned Sparrow 19:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

~~Conditional~~ Support as a late-in-the-piece tweaker and copyeditor I feel this one is ~~just~~ over the line - the prose runs smoothly. The only things are that a distribution map would be great, and the cultural section at the bottom is a little stubby and would be great if this could be embellished. Also, we have a few samey images - I guess this is due to what there is to work with and I'm not sure we need them all. Some other notes in image captions would be good (location etc). Might not be able to do much about the last point though. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:05, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Card has agreed to do a distribution map, but he has to make a new map to show all of the Americas. If someone else wants to try their hand, feel free to do so. I put everything that I could find in the culutral section- I'll reread my notes on the Maya and see if I missed something. I fiddled with the images, gave them better captions, and put in a new one showing the bird's habitat. If you want to delete one of the two heads just above the picture of the cloud forest, go ahead- I personally think it looks fine though. Thanks for supplying such a quick comment. Rufous-crowned Sparrow 20:30, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Jude just put in a new range map that looks absolutely outstanding. THANKS, Jude! Rufous-crowned Sparrow 22:31, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment references 3,17, and 28 don't look right. KnightLago 21:45, 13 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done Jude fixed them. Thanks, Jude! Rufous-crowned Sparrow 00:18, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support: I agree that it matches the FA criteria (assuming the range map is in the works right now); in particular, it's very well-referenced. Cheers, Jude. 00:46, 14 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support As per above. Aflumpire 05:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support I've been through fixing some inconsistencies ("grey", drift between singular and plural, and caps. Should the relation with humans be written as singular too? Is there any discrepancy between It is relatively unaggressive at a kill and will normally back down rather than fight. and Once it has found a carcass, the King Vulture displaces the other vultures because of its large size and strong bill. ? Jimfbleak 06:26, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Excellent article. It reads very well and is well-referenced. Great pictures, too. Coemgenus 14:07, 22 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
- "most strikingly colored bird " is probably subjective and doesnt fit in the opening sentence. I perfer a simple statement about what the bird is and maybe where it is found. Done unless you want to build up starting sentence
- How soon until chick fly, how soon until they fend for themselves? will look for this, but I don't recall ever seeing it
- Other than that pretty dang good. Which vulture is next? :) -Ravedave 02:56, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I've got the Andean Condor next on my slate, followed by the American Black Vulture. Not sure where I put all my condor notes though...Rufous-crowned Sparrow 03:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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