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I am trying to get this article to featured status. Last time, I failed it due to several objections based on the style of writing at the need for copyediting. Please provide comments on the prose (and on everything else). Thanks. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:23, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I felt like I got to know all I wanted to know about this bird, and the article seems well written and very well sourced.
- I did some slight copy-editing.
- By coincidence, in my window the minus sign happened to be separated from the 12 by a line break.
- Cleared up Zenaidura/Zenaidura confusion
- Some of the images need to be captioned better, with particular attention to gender on some of them.
- Image:Zenaida macroura1.jpg: Since this image appears along a description of the different appearance of the genders, its gender needs mentioning.
- Check all the images that show adult birds in nests. Some give a different gender in the image caption and on the image summary page.
- I'd like there to be more cultural references, but they might not exist. Just a thought.
Otherwise, a good article. --GunnarRene 05:01, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I'd like to actually hear the sound of its flight and of its call, or at least find a place to translate "woo-oo-oo-oo" into something I can distinguish from any other dove species.--GunnarRene 05:08, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- The captions should be fixed.
- Image:Zenaida macroura1.jpg is intended to illustrate the features of the "average" adult Mourning Dove; ie, is appearance without regard to gender.
- I'll try and find a recording of its call that I can link to. Miss Madeline | Talk to Madeline 00:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
