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The list was promoted by PresN via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 29 January 2022 (UTC) [1].[reply]

List of birds of Nauru

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Nominator(s): AryKun (talk) 11:46, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Nauru is a tiny atoll in the Pacific Ocean that has only slightly more species of bird than square kilometers of land, but this list seems like a good way to try taking something to FL. AryKun (talk) 11:46, 16 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Accessibility review
  • There's not tables so not much to comment on there, but please add alt text to the images- alt text should briefly describe, in concert with the caption, what an image is of, rather than a big description of what it looks like, so e.g. "alt=speckled brown, white, and black bird" is just fine. --PresN 19:09, 18 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Added alt text for all images. AryKun (talk) 05:29, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments by RunningTiger123

Resolved comments from RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
* "Three species occurring on Nauru are listed as being near-threatened on the IUCN Red List and two are listed as being vulnerable." – citation needed
I got this by individually looking at the IUCN pages of each species, so should I cite those?
Yes, there needs to be some type of citation for it. RunningTiger123 (talk) 14:33, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Added the cites. AryKun (talk) 08:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Most of the second paragraph needs citations
Done.
  • If the list follows the 2021 edition of Clements, the reference listed at the end should be the 2021 edition and not the 2000 edition
Done.
  • Citations for the descriptions of orders/families ("The Phasianidae are a family of terrestrial birds...", "Pigeons and doves are stout-bodied birds...", etc.) would be appreciated
Added.
  • General references should be alphabetized by last name and should be placed after specific references per MOS:REFERENCES
Done.
  • Inline references are generally preferred over general references (see WP:GENREF), especially for a source like Buden where individual pages should be cited where relevant
Removed Buden from the general references and added inline cites from it.

— RunningTiger123 (talk) 04:02, 29 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support – RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:11, 2 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments
  • I have always been told never to start a sentence with a number written in digit form, so to have the entire article start in that way looks very jarring. Is there a way to rewrite the first sentence to avoid this?
Rephrased the sentence.
  • You write Micronesian imperial-pigeon with a hyphen, but the article on it does not use the hyphen.....?
This list uses Clements taxonomy, which adds the hyphens for the common name, while the IOC taxonomy used on bird species articles doesn't. AryKun (talk) 08:30, 1 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Image review — Pass

  • ALT text can take a little improvement. Example "white, orange, and green pigeon sitting on branch" may imply that there are three pigeons, which is not the case here.
  • All the images (including some featured images) are appropriately licenced.

– Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:25, 7 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support, nice work. The structure is a bit different than I expected (I thought it was a table) but this is fine. A question, is there a reason there are only some images when there are pictures available for several species? --Tone 18:49, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    • Because the article isn't a table, adding an image for each species would lead to having way too many images. As for why it isn't a table, it's partially on the basis of previous List of birds of X Fl's, which tend to not be tables (although I realize that many of these are very outdated), and because I personally think tables are only really needed for Endemic birds of X lists and lists of species in a taxonomic group. AryKun (talk) 03:05, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

There's actually a source problem that I guess only shows up if you have the setting turned on: I'm seeing red "{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)" after your IUCN cites. And it's true, you don't have that; you're also using "last" as IUCN even though these pages were actually authored by "BirdLife International"; you're not italicizing genus/genus+species names (which is apparently the standard for biology articles); and you don't need "|language=en" - we're on the English wikipedia, so it's assumed that sources are in English unless otherwise stated. The first is an easy fix: use {{cite iucn}} and it will sort it out for you. The rest is easy for me to do as well (I have an offline script to generate iucn references), so I've gone ahead and done it for you; just something to keep in mind for future lists. In any case, promoting. --PresN 02:42, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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