Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Achelousaurus/archive1

TFA blurb review[edit]

Achelousaurus was a ceratopsid dinosaur that lived about 74.2 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous. The first fossils of the genus were collected from the Two Medicine Formation in the U.S. state of Montana in 1987. Mainly known from skull material, Achelousaurus was about 6 m (20 ft) long, with a weight of about 3 t (3.3 short tons). It had a large head with a hooked beak, and a bony neck-frill with a pair of long, curved spikes. In the places where other centrosaurines often had horns, Achelousaurus had bosses (roundish protuberances) above the eyes and on the snout that may have been used in fights and for display. It has been suggested that Achelousaurus was a transitional form between Einiosaurus (which had spikes but no bosses) and Pachyrhinosaurus (which had larger bosses), though this is debated. As a ceratopsian, Achelousaurus would have been a herbivore. It appears to have had a high metabolic rate, though lower than that of modern mammals and birds. (Full article...)

FunkMonk and MWAK (and anyone else interested): thoughts and edits are welcome. This is the last batch of blurbs for older FACs for a while.

Looks good, but one major part of the article is left out, which is its transitional nature between different species. Not sure how to word this briefly, but it is important enough to be the source of its name. FunkMonk (talk) 03:37, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's 932 characters now. (Range is 925–1025.) Add anything you like. Back in the morning. - Dank (push to talk) 03:51, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have added this while removing some less important stuff. FunkMonk (talk) 05:08, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I made two small tweaks. I think it's fine, but in general, for the future, I've been getting a clear signal that debatable claims are among the first things to go when reducing a lead to a blurb. - Dank (push to talk) 11:55, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]