Talk:Melanohalea exasperatula

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Review: January 17, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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GA Review

Passed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 01:31, 17 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Melanohalea exasperatula/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Esculenta (talk · contribs) 17:25, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 19:13, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

This is a well-constructed and fully-cited article and as such there is little to comment on at GA level.

pycnidia (asexual fruiting bodies) and secondary metabolites have not been observed in this species. - I think we can simply say here that these don't occur or aren't found, no need to talk about observations.

Done. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

exasperatis is from Latin asper, 'rough', which is a far more familiar word, so probably worth mentioning.

Amended and enhanced the etymology. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please wikilink secondary metabolite.

Already linked at end of Description. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No secondary metabolites (lichen products) have been detected in Melanohalea exasperatula using thin-layer chromatography. - Perhaps "Thin-layer chromatography fails to find ..." (active voice).

Now activated. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Contemporary ecogeographical factors, rather than solely by reproductive strategies, influence the distribution patterns - what is meant by 'contemporary' in this context? and the "by" seems to indicate something is missing here? Sentence needs work.

Reworked this part. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What's a skyline plot and how does it show population changes?

Added an explanatory gloss. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

has been found to exclusively parasitize - "exclusively parasitizes".

Done. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've made a couple of vary small copy-edits that seemed to be needed for the sense, and to abbreviate consistently.

I changed back a couple of abbreviations (to avoid a paragraph and a sentence starting with an abbreviation). Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Images

All the photos are on Commons and plausibly licensed.

Sources

All the sources are of suitable quality and plainly relevant to the subject.

Spotchecks [4] (fun to see Nylander's text), [8], [14], [21] ok.

Summary

OK, another nice tidy lichen article. Just a few small comments and suggestions.

Thanks for reviewing, I appreciate it. My changes are summarised here. Esculenta (talk) 22:39, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.