Talk:Melampitta

Melampitta has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: June 12, 2017. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Melampitta appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 June 2008, and was viewed approximately 4,004 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the genus Melampitta is a taxonomic mystery, having been considered at one time either belonging to the pitta, babbler, logrunner, bird of paradise, or cinclosomatid families? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/June.

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• Rather a poorly researched family but some stuff here! Sabine's Sunbird talk 20:01, 20 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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

Reviewer: Casliber (talk · contribs) 22:10, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take this - notes below: Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 22:10, 10 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

being considered at one time related to the pittas, Old World babblers and birds-of-paradise. - they weren't considered related to all three at once...? So reword/ add "variously" or something?

• Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

it's not "melam", but rather melas "black", or stem is melano- - from p. 431 of my Liddell & Scott Ancient Greek Dictionary, meaning "dark, gloomy, dusky, black"

• Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

could link "taxonomic dustbin" to Wastebasket taxon

• Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Both species have a discontinuous distribution across New Guinea, and the greater melampitta is generally a rare bird that is seldom encountered, although this may because it lives in seldom visited areas - recommend changing one "seldom" and hyphen after the second one.

• Fixed. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"disconfirmed" ? - could find a plainer word than this I suspect.

• I went with refuted. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

link terrestrial

• Done. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Otherwise looking pretty "Good"....

• Al done now, thanks Cas. Sabine's Sunbird talk 02:07, 11 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Pass or Fail: - nice read Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:21, 12 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]