Talk:Indian vulture

Indian vulture was nominated as a Natural sciences good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (August 28, 2023, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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File:Vultures in the nest, Orchha, MP, India edit.jpg to appear as POTD soon[edit]

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Vultures in the nest, Orchha, MP, India edit.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 6, 2020. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2020-02-06. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:18, 26 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The Indian vulture (Gyps indicus) is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal. It has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002. The cause of the catastrophic reduction in their numbers has been identified to be the use by farmers of the veterinary drug diclofenac, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug which extends an animal's working life, but makes its carcase toxic to vultures if the drug was recently administered. The Indian government has banned the use of the drug, and it is hoped that the vultures will stage a comeback.

This photograph shows a group of Indian vultures nesting on a tower of Chaturbhuj Temple in Orchha, Madhya Pradesh.Photograph credit: Yann Forget; edited by Samsara and Christian Ferrer

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GA Review[edit]

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

Reviewer: AryKun (talk · contribs) 16:02, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I will be quick failing this article as it fails several of the GA criteria, falling short of a couple of them by a rather large margin. The article desperately needs a copy-edit to improve the quality of the prose and there are many formatting issues in the references. More substantially, much of the article is cited to pop science and news articles where journal articles, books, and academic reports would be much more appropriate as sources. The article also suffers from comprehensiveness and due weight issues: the sections on diet, parasites, and breeding contain a lot of general information that applies to all vultures and don't go into enough detail about this species, and the conservation section takes up far too much of the article. The "Cultural and economic significance" section is pretty much useless, it only contains general info that applies to all species of vulture that occur in India. I'd recommend rewriting the article with Northern bald ibis as an example of what to aim for. AryKun (talk) 16:02, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Forgot to mention, the Taxonomy section contains almost no information besides an uncited etymology; it needs a history of how the species was described, its subsequent taxonomic treatment by authorities, its current treatment, any subspecies, and its relationship to other closely related vultures. AryKun (talk) 16:06, 28 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]