Talk:Leopard/GA3

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 13:34, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

I'll have a go at this one. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:34, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Comments

The article is well-structured with headings much as expected.

• I suggest "Conservation issues" be moved from being chapter 6. to being section 6.1, i.e. placing it inside "Human interaction", as poaching and countermeasures are certainly human activities. Done

• I see that British English spellings like "colour" and "centre" have recently been changed to American spellings (though "Variant colouration" remains). This is contrary to policy, as wide consensus is required for any such change. They need to be put back throughout, please.

• In "Etymology", please change "referred to" to "meant"; remove the words "which refers to"; and change "that were used" to "to be used". Done

• In "Size", most or all of the Imperial measurements in the {{convert}} templates offer spurious precision beyond the simple round numbers of the metric measurements. For instance, 20 cm should be 8 in, not 7.9; 45 kg should be 99 lb (if not "about 100", indeed), not 99.2. Skull breadth measured to 7.125 in (to the nearest 1/200 of an inch, really?) is a specially egregious example (indeed, a WikiHorrors museum specimen). Please reduce the specified precision for all the templates.

Ah, all the skull measurements have Imperial before Metric, which is inconsistent (and non-standard). Sorry for the trouble but they need to be switched to have Metric first (there are different ways of doing this). Done

• In "Evolution", please spell out "nDNA" as "nuclear DNA" and similarly "mtDNA" as "mitochondrial DNA" at first instance. Done

• The "two cladograms" are excessively small, and I've no idea why we'd format these as an SVG image rather than using the normal {{clade}} template. I guess we can live with the SVG for the moment, so please insert "|upright=2" after "|thumb" to make the text labels about as big as normal text (which is the requirement). Done

• I kind of see why the "Rock art" image from Chauvet cave has appeared up here, but rock art belongs in "Human interactions" at the end of the article, so please move it down there. Done

• Same goes for the "Magerius Mosaic" image in "Distribution and habitat", it belongs in the Human section. That would be the right place even if the image were mentioned in the text, which it isn't.  Done

• In "Characteristics", I see precisely no function to the sentence "The chromosomes include four acrocentric, five metacentric, seven submetacentric and two telocentric pairs.[27]", so please remove it and merge the previous sentence to the previous paragraph. Done

• In "Variant colouration", "pink panther" is not supported by the cited source, so please remove it. (The source does support "strawberry", so that bit is fine.)

• In "Variant colouration", suggest you gloss "Kra Isthmus" with "in Thailand" as the text jumps about between continents. Done

• Actually the "Variant colouration" section is full of WP:UNDUE detail compared to the rest of the article. It reads as if a teenage editor had got rather over-excited about black panthers (ho, ho!) and pink panthers (giggle!!), and very excited indeed about finding big black cats here, there, and everywhere in the style of "Video shows 'big cat' creature that could be young panther spotted in Derbyshire field" (breathless gasp!!!). This is unencyclopedic. I think all we need is a very short paragraph at the end of "Characteristics" with a link to Black panther#Leopard; since we have a subsidiary article on that topic, we don't have to repeat it all here, so please condense the material down to a brief mention, keeping (most of) the existing citations. Done

• In "Hunting and diet", the Multiple Image needs to be arranged horizontally not vertically as the images run into the next section. Suggest you use "|direction=horizontal |align=center" in place of the existing settings. Done

• You will probably need to arrange images horizontally, using Multiple Image or a Gallery, in "Human interaction". Done

• Images all seem to be properly licensed on Commons.

• Spot-checks on citations are all ok.

Summary

This is mainly a well-organised and properly-cited article, with a few small defects as listed above. I hope to see it reach GA status very shortly. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:18, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.