Talk:Portuguese man o' war/GA1
GA review
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Nominator: {{User|ZKevinTheCat}} 19:22, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Reviewer: Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs) 11:33, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
Will review this soon. For a start:
- there is a new, important study just published [https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(25)00682-7] that needs to be incorporated.
- Make sure everything in the abstract is in the main text, too. The abstract should only summarize, it does not need to have citations.
- Sources 17 and 31; as well as 42 and 44, and 60 and 66 are duplicates.
- "Animal Diversity Web" has, from my experience, been a quite unreliable source. It is also a tertiary one, just as Wikipedia is, which is not ideal either. Ideally, cite the scholarly literature directly. I am not requesting to eliminate that source completely, but I will put extra scrutiny to that source when I do a source review.
More soon. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 11:33, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
:@Jens Lallensack Thanks for starting the review. I may not be able to do to much because I am currently out of town with limited access to the internet. I'll try to do what I can though. ZKevinTheCat (talk) 14:01, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
:::Understood; I can give you some extra time, no problem. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 14:47, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
- live in the cold, dark ocean depths where they can only be observed in their natural habitat by a submersible or ROV. – better "live at greater depths, where they can …". Also, submersible needs link, and ROV also needs a link and possibly should be spelt out.
- The "Taxonomy" section lacks a couple of important aspects. Who described the species/genus/family, and under what name originally, based on what specimen? Where does the scientific name come from, where does the common name come from? Who erected Physalia, who erected Physaliidae? How was the animal classified originally?
- On what source is the cladogram based on?
- A sail on the bladder, which may be left or right-handed, propels it about the sea, often in groups. – Confusing sentence and should be re-formulated for clarity. I would add "to catch the wind" for clarity. Why can it be left or right-handed, is it asymmetrical? "often in groups" means it is gregarious? If so, make a separate sentence for that, since it is not really related to the sail.
Stopping here for now. Once the above are addressed, I will have another look, probably with more comments, but hopefully with no major ones anymore. I see that you are not the main author of large parts of the article, so I also have to make sure that you are confident about the source quality (see comment above). --Jens Lallensack (talk) 14:46, 24 June 2025 (UTC)