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Republica weatbrooki, Republica (plant)

Republica hickeyi leaf

• ... that while both are named from the same place, the genus Republica (pictured) is not the genus Republica?

• Source: Archibald & Cannings 2021 materials and methods for location data "We examined a single fossil in lacustrine shale recovered from exposure B4131 of the Tom Thumb Tuff Member

of the Klondike Mountain Formation at Republic, Washington, U.S.A."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Buellia aethalea
  • Comment: Also reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Calamophyton

Created by Kevmin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 351 past nominations.

Kevmin § 00:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC).

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:

Overall: My first time reviewing a dual-article nomination, and I appreciate the effort which must have gone into it!

Both articles moved to mainspace yesterday. QPQ is done. No plagiarism detected via Earwig. For both articles, length, referencing and image licensing are all good. For the insect, I think that the first paragraph of "Description" and of "Paleoenvironment" are both a bit long and ought to be split up a bit, and that "Paleoenvironment" should have at least one image - even the location map over at Klondike Mountain Formation would be really helpful. For the plant, you really should move the distribution images a couple of paragraphs down to avoid MOS:SANDWICH, and the last sentence of the lead is missing a period. Still, I would not hold up the nomination for those reasons alone.

To me, it is the hook which has multiple significant issues. It may not be grammatically correct (shouldn't it be named after the same place, not named from the same place?), it is really confusing and vague, as you have no way to tell what place is actually being referred to without clicking on both links, and I feel that a lot of readers would just say "So what?" when they see it as currently written. Suggested wording: "...that extinct plants and damselflies from the Eocene were discovered and named after RepublicinWashington?"

I also think that both articles should have a sentence which makes this connection between the two more explicit than the mere hatnote at the top. Lastly, you should at least add DOI and ISBN links to your DYK citations. Right now, there is no way to tell which citation refers to which fossil without going through the articles' references, and we should not have to do that. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 13:05, 31 May 2024 (UTC)