Talk:African striped weasel

GA review

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Nominator: Olmagon (talk · contribs) 00:24, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: ZKevinTheCat (talk · contribs) 16:21, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

Beginning the GA review. Good luck. — ZKevinTheCat

Review

Issues:

• "In 1865, German naturalist Wilhelm Peters reported a mustelid specimen from Golungo Alto, Angola under the name Zorilla africana. He also reported a second specimen from the same area which he thought should be considered a variety of this species. However, Austrian explorer Friedrich Welwitsch told him that the latter specimen represents the species named a year earlier as Zorilla albinucha. He believed that the two forms were consistently different, and that even the locals refer to them by different names. However, Peters himself thought it was simply a variant of the African striped weasel." The last sentence is problematic; Peters thought the latter specimen was of Z. africana, not the African striped weasel, so why does it say otherwise?

Yeah that sentence seems to he a leftover from when I wrongly interpreted it the wrong way around, missed it when I was fixing that earlier. Olmagon (talk) 22:01, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

• "Across the former Cape Province of South Africa, the African striped weasel is a protected species, but elsewhere in the country it is only protected within nature reserves and national parks." Is this talking about now or the past? Is it still a protected species, or just in the former province?

Honesty don't know, only source for this doesn't specify or even list which law is protecting it. Olmagon (talk) 22:01, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

I just deleted this sentence. It's not too important and it is just confusing. ZKevinTheCat (talk) 19:26, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

• The article mentions its use in traditional medicine a lot, but never gives any details.

I found multiple sources mentioning it is used in medicine yet annoyingly none of them really specify what they're being used for. Olmagon (talk) 22:01, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

• "The testes of the male remain large from September to April (spring to early autumn)." These statements are contradictory. One statement suggests them being large in the spring, and the other in the winter.

This animal lives mainly in the Southern Hemisphere so September to April is spring to early autumn. Olmagon (talk) 22:03, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Spot check (using random.org)

[9] - good
[7] - X; I couldn't find any info about the skins coming from Calandula specifically

The source says "Le district du Duque du Bragança, which was the name used back then for the same area. Olmagon (talk) 22:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

[31] - good

Overall pretty solid, just a few things that need clearing up. Good work.

ZKevinTheCat (talk) 16:49, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

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