Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Lambeosaurus

Lambeosaurus

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This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/November 13, 2013 by Bencherlite^Talk 12:05, 4 November 2013‎ (UTC)

Lambeosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 76 to 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period (Campanian) of North America. This bipedal/quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaur is known for its distinctive hollow cranial crest, which in the best-known species resembled a hatchet. Several possible species have been named in Canada, the US, and Mexico, but only the two Canadian species are currently recognized as valid. The various skulls assigned to the type species L. lambei are interpreted as showing age differences and sexual dimorphism, including some juvenile fossils previously thought to belong to a genus of dwarf hadrosaur. Lambeosaurus was closely related to the better known Corythosaurus, which is found in slightly older rocks, as well as the less well-known dinosaurs Hypacrosaurus and Olorotitan. All had unusual crests, which are now generally assumed to have served social functions like noisemaking and recognition. (Full article...)

• Thought this might spur J. Spencer (talk · contribs) into writing some more Featured Articles (chuckle). He is still active too. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:32, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
• Support, high quality page, educational and encyclopedic. Also, SCIENCE !!! — Cirt (talk) 13:58, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Do we really need all that blue? Where we now have:

• Several possible species have been named, from Alberta (Canada), Montana (USA), and Baja California (Mexico), but only the two Canadian species are currently recognized as valid.

could we have instead something like:

• Several possible species have been named in Canada, the USA and Mexico, but only the two Canadian species are recognized as valid.

also taking out the "currently" problem. With all the (necessary) italics, and (unnecessary) blue links and parentheses, the blurb is ... visually overwhelming. Perhaps the article should be reviewed for precise language, ala "currently". SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:46, 1 November 2013 (UTC)

Tweaked a bit, more needed. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:46, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Tweaked a bit more - Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 10:13, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Great (struck). SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:39, 3 November 2013 (UTC)

I like this article. I'm pretty new to Wikipedia. Is there a requirement of importance in the subject? It doesn't seem important. Good article tho. Beyondallmeaning (talk) 01:26, 4 November 2013 (UTC)