Talk:Hepialidae

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Hepialidae was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake. Reviewed version: April 18, 2007

[edit] GA Feedback

[edit] Points that need addressing prior to passing

The article is generally good and well written, however, I'd like to see the following issues addressed prior to passing:

• Possibly insufficient references for a family article (only 9 references?), some material remains unreferenced. Perhaps use intext citations? This makes the article easier to read & verify in my opinion. See WP:CITE. I recommend using footnotes eg: <ref>Brown J (1900) Example study on something ''Journal of Examples'' 18:5678-9876</ref>. See: Wikipedia:Footnotes for more information.
• Taxobox - the taxobox creates much white space, I recommend moving the list of genera into the text.
• Breadth - I wonder given the limited number of references used whether the article does cover the breadth of the topic. As I'm not an insect biologist I'll leave this for others to determine.

[edit] Minor recommendations

• Some further images (larvae, pupa) may be of benefit
• Notable species? Why are the European fauna dealt with separately/alone?

Cheers, David. MidgleyDJ 21:41, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

What is the status here? The on hold period expires today. IvoShandor 07:42, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Not completely addressed...sigh... fail for now. MidgleyDJ 08:50, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

Roger that. You'll get there, don't worry. : ) IvoShandor 08:54, 18 April 2007 (UTC)

I proposed but I have not had chance to research any new refs - will be reproposed soon I hopeRichard Barlow 16:15, 18 April 2007 (UTC)