Template:Did you know nominations/Desert musk shrew
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 05:14, 17 April 2025 (UTC)
Desert musk shrew
Desert musk shrew distribution
- ... that the two known populations of the desert musk shrew (distribution pictured) are found on opposite ends of Africa?
- Source: Mammals of Africa https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AkvrDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=Crocidura+smithii#v=onepage&q=Crocidura%20smithii&f=false, pg. 132, "Endemic to Africa. ... Recorded only from
lowland Ethiopia and Senegal, but not recorded from any locality
between these countries", and then for "opposite ends" you can see the attached image, though I can try to pull a source for it that isn't "look at the map" if this is insufficient. The hook source calls it a "widespread disjunct distribution" and includes a very similar map. (Not sure if it makes sense to run the map with the hook, but I've included it in case there's interest).- ALT1: ... that the first scientific description of the desert musk shrew mentioned its "curiously youthful" appearance? Source: https://ia800805.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/13/items/crossref-pre-1909-scholarly-works/10.1080%252F00222939308677516.zip&file=10.1080%252F00222939508680227.pdf, "In its general proportions it has a curious youthful appearance, although, as shown by its skull and feet, the specimen is fully adult"
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/After London
Rusalkii (talk) 20:03, 31 March 2025 (UTC).
- Confirmed that the hooks used are backed up by the cited sources. Nominator expanded this article 5x from a four-sentence stub yesterday. Both hooks are interesting, but the first is preferred since it's something actually describing the animal. There are plenty of witticisms to be found in Oldfield Thomas' work but we don't need every one of them to be a DYK. QPQ confirmed. While everything here checks out, I don't want to approve this with the image, as while it's illustrative of the first hook it is not particularly great to look at. A quick look through the archives finds no uses of distribution maps for DYK images. Other DYKs that mention distribution ({{Did you know nominations/Beck's tree frog}}, {{Did you know nominations/Glutinoglossum heptaseptatum}}) do not include maps or have photos of the subject to better represent it. Reconrabbit 14:22, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
- Happy to run the first hook without the image, I wasn't sure about it either. I also prefer it to ALT1, I just like to give reviewers options if I can. Rusalkii (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
Placed a question mark icon here to indicate that the nomination was reviewed by Reconrabbit, but not yet approved. Flibirigit (talk) 01:58, 14 April 2025 (UTC)
- Happy to run the first hook without the image, I wasn't sure about it either. I also prefer it to ALT1, I just like to give reviewers options if I can. Rusalkii (talk) 17:47, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
