The article was promoted 00:00, 16 July 2007.
The latest offering from the team at WP dinosaurs. This article is about as comprehensive as possible. It has been extensively copyedited and I feel the prose is tight It is factually accurate, referenced and laid out in a hierarchical manner. The images were either authored by wikipedians or used under fair use criteria. A few of us are ready to pounce on actionable fixes identified. nominated cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC) though main credits are ArthurWeasley, Dinoguy2, Firsfron , J. Spencer..................cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:31, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for now: there is one run of several sentences across two paragraphs with no references: "Expeditions during the following two summers uncovered more than 1000 bones, among which were at least three individuals. Since the association between the various recovered bones was weak, making the exact number of individual animals represented impossible to determine properly, the type specimen of Deinonychus was restricted to the complete left foot and partial right foot that definitely belonged to the same individual. The remaining specimens were catalogued in fifty separate entries at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. [pbreak] A skeleton of Deinonychus including bones from the original (and most complete) specimen can be seen on display at the American Museum of Natural History, with another specimen on display at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. The American Museum and Harvard specimens are from a different locality than the Yale specimens."
You should also make sure that you put references at each mention of a fact that is derived from that reference, not just in the first sentence of a paragraph, because otherwise your article will be literally destroyed by people who come along two years later and decide to refactor. Having a featured article is nice, but we know they don't last (edit creep), and they're by no means set in stone, or necessarily permanently being watched for all eternity. Make it future-proof, please, even if that means making some layout sacrifices. Spamsara 11:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]