Talk:Marsh rabbit

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This entry was added by Andrew Rutherford, for a class assignment in the Biology of Animals class at University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. If you have any suggestions for the student or the instructor, please let us know. Thanks! Bio230 (talk) 22:51, 2 May 2009 (UTC)Bala Thiagarajan[reply]

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GA review

Passed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:15, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Marsh rabbit/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Reconrabbit (talk · contribs) 15:50, 9 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 11:49, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

The article is properly structured and clearly written, and I have little to say about the text or its organisation.

I'd suggest that the 'Habitat and distribution' section makes explicit that it is speaking about subspecies, as "mainland marsh rabbit" isn't named in the 'Subspecies' section: perhaps it should be, or perhaps the term "Carolina marsh rabbit" should be used throughout for clarity.
- This part is a little longer now and lines up with previous descriptions of S. p. palustris. -RR

You might want to wikilink other species and groups named, such as alligator, coyote, magnolia, greenbrier vine, wild potato, cattail.
- Links added, though I couldn't find a good target for "wild potato" since it's so vague.-RR
  - So why is it mentioned then?
    - I looked into it and found a site that clarifies this as the "duck potato". -RR

The method of hunting is presumably burning to flush the game out, followed by shooting.
- Made explicit (written as "clubbed or shot")-RR

are recorded as feeding on -> "feed on".
- Changed -RR

Earwig finds copyvio very unlikely.

Images

All the images are on Commons and plausibly licensed.

The words "marsh rabbit" should be omitted from several of the captions.
- Captions altered-RR

Sources

The mix of scientific sources, monographs, and identification guides is suitable for this type of article. All the sources are reliable.

Spot-checks: [2] ok; [14] ok; [27] ok, but an old and rather conversational source; [30] ok.
- I can supplement 27 in the Ecology section more readily than I can in the human interaction section and will try to do so. -RR
  - I can't actually find any that make quite the same remarks as Nelson about the marsh rabbit, though some of these facts are supported by [11] (McCleery) which is cited later on in some paragraphs. I removed the "splayed toes" fact as this actually is more likely to apply to the swamp rabbit and not the marsh rabbit. -RR

Summary

A concise and interesting article. It's so close to GA that I considered closing this immediately but we might as well see the "i"s dotted and the "t"s crossed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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