Talk:Ezo flying squirrel
Latest comment: 2 years ago by SL93 in topic Did you know nomination
 | A fact from Ezo flying squirrel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 June 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 23:51, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
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Pteromys volans orii
- ... that the Ezo flying squirrel (pictured) can glide over 160 ft (49 m)? Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232676054 (p. 153)
- Comment:
Nominating now, but shall expand further over the next day or so; please wait before reviewing, thank you.Now ready for review, thank you, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 22:36, 2 June 2022 (UTC)
Created by Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk). Self-nominated at 17:09, 2 June 2022 (UTC).
@Maculosae tegmine lyncis: Earwig and I were surprised to find a 0% similarity in this large article - well done. The hook is reffed and so is the article. Its neutral and well written and gleaming with detail. I went to check the image and that threw up a question - as the same picture is used to illustrate the European flying squirrel on the German Wikipedia. Could this be explained/resolved? I would suggest also that the image be made more portrait as the equirrel is cute and DYK pictures are usually taller or equal to their width. Thank you Victuallers (talk) 13:47, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, and thank you for the "gleaming" comment; have switched the image with a cropped version (height=width) as suggested; re the (uncropped) image's use in Europäisches Gleithörnchen, that is apparently an article about Pteromys volans at species level, the equivalent (and linked) to enwiki's Siberian flying squirrel, whereas this article is strictly about the subspecies Pteromys volans orii, which is endemic to Hokkaido (and (as such) is the subject of lots of, in particular, Japanese literature in its own right); thanks, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 14:22, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
- Pinging Victuallers. I also admit that I'm having trouble parsing the above comment. SL93 (talk) 23:26, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
- Hello, and thank you for the "gleaming" comment; have switched the image with a cropped version (height=width) as suggested; re the (uncropped) image's use in Europäisches Gleithörnchen, that is apparently an article about Pteromys volans at species level, the equivalent (and linked) to enwiki's Siberian flying squirrel, whereas this article is strictly about the subspecies Pteromys volans orii, which is endemic to Hokkaido (and (as such) is the subject of lots of, in particular, Japanese literature in its own right); thanks, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 14:22, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
@SL93: the nom is saying that the image is being used here to illustrate a specific subspecies while its use in the other article is for a wider species group. It's like the Honda Civic (tenth generation) lede image also being used as the lede image in Honda Civic, the former being a "subspecies" of the latter. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:36, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation. SL93 (talk) 13:37, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: image seems to be OK. Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:38, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping SL93 - I had forgotten this one. Sorry. GTG Victuallers (talk) 14:55, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
