Wikipedia:Peer review/List of Massachusetts birds/archive1
I've listed this article for peer review because… All the copy has been entered and crosschecked, and has been relatively stable for a number of weeks. I'm in the process of self nominating this list to the list of featured list candidates and would appreciate any overall feedback before doing so.
Thanks,
Pmeleski (talk) 02:39, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
This change will put the list in accord with Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Numbers as figures or words, where an exception specifies not using numerals to open a sentence: rewrite the sentence "43 species have been recorded in Massachusetts." and the similar sentences in later sections either by writing the number as a word or by recasting the sentence so the number does not occur at the beginning, for example, "In the state, 43 species have been recorded." Fg2 (talk) 10:29, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
It's great to see another bird list on its way to FA!
- I'd suggest you use a TOC similar to that used in many of the other FA bird lists (see List of New Jersey birds for example); it takes up much less room, and makes it far easier for a reader to quickly scan all the bird families at once.
- Section headers need to be capitalized per WP:MOS—that is, it should say "Gannets and boobies" rather than "Gannets and Boobies". A number of sections need correcting.
- The photo captions should be carefully reviewed; there are some instances of inappropriate punctuation (e.g. periods after non-sentences). There's also a move afoot in WP:BIRD to make country list photo captions more informational (see talk page discussion here), which would certainly be appropriate for this article as well.
- The list needs a careful scan for random characters; there's an apostrophe after the scientific name for Ruffed Grouse, for example, and a period after the scientific name of Common Loon.
- Per WP:MOS all numbers less than 10 should be spelled out.
- The references should all be in "cite book" or "cite web" format—and the reference for the official MA checklist should be expanded so that it doesn't just say "1"!