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The following is an archived discussion of a featured list nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured list candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The list was promoted by Hey man im josh via FACBot (talk) 12:25, 22 December 2024 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of murinines

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Nominator(s): PresN 19:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bats list #7 and mammal list #48: Murininae. The list is small and the bats are smaller: this third list of four in Vespertilionidae has only 35 species to keep track of, all of which are pretty similar (though the guy in the lede image has some neat silver coloring). As always, this list reflects formatting discussions from prior lists as well as the scientific consensus on the family. Thanks for reviewing! --PresN 19:02, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - I got nothing :-) I notice that the lead image is a duplicate of one of the ones in the table - it might be nice to use an image for the lead that isn't also in the table but this isn't a deal-breaker, not least because I expect that the reason is that there aren't any other tube-nosed bat images available..... -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 12:02, 27 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Image Comments
  • ALT text is not used consistently.
  • All bat images have alt text; the maps have a stock alt text because they have visible captions instead for the same purpose. Is anything else missing alt text?
  • Dobson images could be marked PD-100 to better serve readers in countries with longer terms of copyright.
  • Done
  • What are the source files for the maps? Seems to only be a problem with the ones by A proietti.
  • No idea; they appear to have been created based on maps in the books named (Menkhorst & Knight, 2001, for example, is A Field Guide to the Mammals of Australia, while Flannery 1995 is either Mammals of the South-west Pacific & Moluccan Islands or Mammals of New Guinea (he split the work into two volumes, published in the same year))
  • Unclear, which is why I didn't mention it in the caption
@Chris Woodrich Hi! Since these images were made for the related pages on it.wiki.x.io, the color corresponding to the subspecies can be found there. Some, however, are transcribed in the remarks. Available for any comparison. Greetings! A proietti (talk) 14:46, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
i've inserted this info in the image remarks! A proietti (talk) 15:56, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@A proietti: Thanks! Do you remember where you got the base blank map image from? --PresN 16:04, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately not. Certainly from Commons, .svg format, different map projections which I then modified in .png format. They are more than 10 years old, I had slightly dated software at that time A proietti (talk) 16:12, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't see any verification, but the image isn't that useful, so removed.
  • Prose:
  • "Like all bats, murinines are capable of true and sustained flight, and have wing lengths ranging from 2 cm (1 in) to 6 cm (2 in)." -- Wingspan doesn't apply to all bats; might be better with the previous sentence.
  • Split into two sentences
  • Almost no murinines have population estimates, though two species—the Da Lat tube-nosed bat and Ryukyu tube-nosed bat—are categorized as endangered species, and two species—the Bala tube-nosed bat and gloomy tube-nosed bat—are categorized as critically endangered. - Any way of avoiding the repetition of "species"? — Chris Woodrich (talk) 19:31, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Removed first species, it should be clear from the aside that we mean two species, not two individual bats.
@Crisco 1492: Addressed. --PresN 23:06, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Crisco 1492, I just wanted to follow up on this to see whether it has your support or not. Hey man im josh (talk) 13:22, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Source and prose review by Generalissima

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  • Prose is solid, I don't have any comments to make there.
  • Tables are correctly formatted (they're a template, after all!)
  • Almost everything is cited to the IUCN Red List, a good quality source for this.
    • I checked a random smattering of the IUCN links, and everything checks out.
    • Ditto on Nowak 1994.

Support on both fronts. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 19:07, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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