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Paleocene

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 8, 2020 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:55, 9 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The Paleocene is an epoch which started 66 million years ago with the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction of non-avian dinosaurs and 75% of all species. The Paleocene was marked by the recovery of the biosphere, with dense forests worldwide, while small mammals and birds rapidly evolved to take advantage of the mass extinction. In the seas, ray-finned fish rose to dominance. The supercontinents Laurasia and Gondwana were still separating, the Rocky Mountains were being uplifted, the Americas were divided, the Indian Plate was colliding with Asia, and the North Atlantic Igneous Province was forming. Like the preceding Mesozoic, the Paleocene had a greenhouse climate, with an average global temperature of 24–25 °C (75–77 °F), compared to 14 °C (57 °F) today. It ended 56 million years ago with a sharp rise in temperature in the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum. (Full article...)

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Main editors: User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk
Promoted: 30 November 2019
Reasons for nomination: It's listed as a level-5 vital article, and is the only FA about a geological time period, and I'm not aware of any FAs or GAs about Paleocene creatures, plants, events, etc.
Support as nominator. User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 17:49, 30 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support, with tweaks. Since the FAC was just promoted, this page will serve as the blurb review. Thoughts and edits are welcome. - Dank (push to talk) 05:12, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but I find the blurb confusing. It appears to give the average temperature for the PETM, but is actually for the Paleocene. I also think it should be made clear that the Paleocene's greenhouse climate was the earth's normal state, not unusually high. Dudley Miles (talk) 10:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Oops, I think you're right, but I'm not sure what to do about it. The PETM represented "more than 5–8 °C global average temperature rise across the event" (from the article on the PETM) ... but I'm not sure how to work that in. We're at 963 characters now; we should keep it between 925 and 1025. Since we don't have a lot of extra room, maybe we should just replace "24–25 °C (75–77 °F)" by whatever the temperature range maxed out at ... Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 14:04, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- FWIW, I'm not on board with the current version. Recusing. - Dank (push to talk) 15:00, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- Dudley, answering your "how about this" question: after I get the blurb reviews done that I'm working on at the moment, I'll be taking a wikibreak for a week or two. So I'd rather let other people handle this one. I took out problems like "from 66–56" and "extinction event and the extinction" and they got put back in, so it would probably be better for someone else to be looking at this anyway. - Dank (push to talk) 16:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]