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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 by Ian Rose (talk) 11:55, 30 June 2014 (diff).

Cuban macaw[edit]

Nominator(s): FunkMonk (talk) 23:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This article presents most of what is known about this species of extinct macaw, and includes the best contemporary images of the bird. It is the only extinct macaw known from stuffed specimens, and this article seems to be more comprehensive than even most of those covering living species of macaw. FunkMonk (talk) 23:03, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support I came across this article on the GOCE request page, and I helped out with a copyedit (it was generally well written before I got there). This is a well written, interesting, comprehensive article, and given the talk page discussion it appears that the author has scoured all available sources. Calliopejen1 (talk) 18:14, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Well written and well sourced article. --Carioca (talk) 19:38, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, both! FunkMonk (talk) 13:47, 12 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Image review

  • Possible to provide page numbers for scans?
Where? Fixed on image page. FunkMonk (talk) 13:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • File:Cuban_Red_Macaw_range.gif: the text accompanying this image on the source site suggests a broader range. Nikkimaria (talk) 13:18, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Those are not accepted today, it is discussed in the text. FunkMonk (talk) 13:29, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comments - looking good but would be nice if all three of the lead paras didn't start with, "The Cuban macaw...." Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:19, 15 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Heh, I "parroted" your rejig in the intro, better? FunkMonk (talk) 13:13, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yeah, support on comprehensiveness and prose - tight little article. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:02, 16 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comments and source review

  • "Its relationship with other Ara macaws is uncertain." I realise that Ara is the genus, but a lay reader may be confused by what an Ara macaw is - in a sense I was too, because i would have assumed all macaws were in a single genus. Is this not thecase? Maybe "Its relationship with other macaws in the genus Ara is uncertain"?
Yes, there are several macaw genera. I'll change to what you proposed. FunkMonk (talk) 20:15, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • footnote 14 specifies non-English language, yet footnote 3 does not.
Both do now. FunkMonk (talk) 20:17, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • footnote 10 - only one page is listed (238) but looking at the original, i think it should be 238-240. Also, something needs to be done about the linked title. "Rothschild's 'Extinct Birds' Extinct Birds Walter Rothschild" cannot be right. The author of the item in the Auk is "C.W.R.", the title i think should be "Recent literature: Rothschild's 'Extinct Birds'".
Fixed. The citation details were bot-generated. CWR appears to be Charles Wallace Richmond. FunkMonk (talk) 20:17, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise good. hamiltonstone (talk) 04:25, 28 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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