Talk:Giant golden-crowned flying fox

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This is my original article based on various information I gathered from newspapers and online articles.

There was no copy & paste done. No plagiarism.

There is absolutely no copyright violation here. If you are still itching to pull the trigger, contact me first so that we can avoid another deadlock Latorilla 18:34, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Issues

This article has numerous issues (needs wikification, more citations, attention from an expert). I personally think that attention from an expert in the field would solve most, if not all of them.--Toepoaster (talk) 03:15, 16 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It would seem the given weight of this bat is off by an order of magnitude. When I look at similar size creatures they range from 0.8kg to 2kg but this one is given as 10kg to 20kg. Swedums (talk) 03:11, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Blatant Image Problems

Unfortunately it appears the main image is upside down, was the editor that included this particular file as blind as the eponymous creatures in question? Somebody please correct this asap. 78.151.41.124 (talk) 16:40, 21 March 2011 (UTC) I apologize if I'm wrong, but don't bats often hang upside down? 98.214.177.99 (talk) 12:10, 18 October 2011 (UTC) This is the way bats rest, so nothing wrong about it. 178.73.48.87 (talk) 07:18, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Image of questioned species

Removed image from page after Im a teapot questioned its species.

[[File:Golden_crowned_fruit_bat.jpg|thumb|left|''Acerodon jubatus'' hanging comfortably upside-down while at rest. **This image appears to be of a grey-headed flying-fox <i>Pteropus poliocephalus</i>, an Australian endemic. A, jubatus appears to have a dark face with light eyes while P. polio has a light or dark face with dark eyes.]]

I'm not a zoologist and can't make any useful comment about the species beyond that it looks significantly different to the image in the infobox. Pseudomonas_(talk) 15:41, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks very much for removing the image and acting so quickly. Im a teapot (talk) 22:36, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Starsandwhales (talk · contribs) 20:16, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Enwebb! I'll try to get this review done today or in the next few days. Looking forward to learning more about bats!

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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There is some copyediting needed to make this article more clear. Not sure if as the reviewer I may fix these myself, but they're very quick changes anyways.
- "These roosts can consist of thousands of individuals, often including another species, the large flying fox." --> I assume you meant "These roosts can consist of thousands of individuals, often including another species, such as the large flying fox."?
  - I don't think I want to say "such as" here. It makes it sound as if the large flying fox is one of many species that it roosts with instead of the only species it will roost with. Edited to add: I changed the final comma to a colon, which may help with some of the confusion.
- Consistency with the formatting of subspecies
  - Are you referring to the parentheses? Parentheses are used when the current name combination (the name combination listed, in this instance) is different from the one used in its original description. See Template:Taxobox#Authorities
    - Got it.
- "The great flying fox has a slightly shorter forearm length, and its winspan is thus presumed to be lesser as well." --> "The great flying fox has a slightly shorter forearm length, and its wingspan is thus presumed to be lesser as well."
  - Fixed spelling of "wingspan"
- Link the first mention of bushmeat to its article instead of the second mention. The third mention of deforestation is a duplink. There's a duplink highlight tool to check for all of these.
  - Duplinks don't count in the lead (MOS:DUPLINK). That's why the duplink tool doesn't count those. I changed the link of deforestation from #Conservation to #Diet and foraging so that it is linked from the first mention after the lead, not the second.
    - Okay
This is nitpicky, but the photos of the fig and the eagle don't really fit with the article. I could see it if there was a photo of a bat eating a fig, I could see it. The images and their captions are good and you can choose to keep them. I personally don't think they should be there or they should be replaced with different photos.
- This is a hard one, as I'm trying to make the article more interesting by including photos. There aren't many freely licensed photos of this bat species, though.
"The species probably flies long distances to feed because of deforestation and habitat loss". Who thinks this? Are there other ideas about this bat's feeding habits? Also, "probably" has a connotation that you are unsure about this.
- I rewrote this paragraph, but "probably" was used by the cited source, Mickleburgh 1992
TIL that tourism can be very disruptive to bats
- Quite sad, really
Can these giant golden-crowned flying foxes echolocate? If not, is it important to mention that?
- No, they cannot. I'll add a sentence for clarity later today
  - Sentence added

All in all, this article is really good. The article flows nicely and is easy to read. There aren't extraneous details but the article is still full of information. Good work!

Thank you for your review! Enwebb (talk) 20:53, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]