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The peer review department of the Birds WikiProject conducts reviews for all Bird-related articles. The primary objective is to encourage better articles by having contributors who may not have worked on articles to examine them and provide ideas for further improvement.

All reviews are conducted by fellow editors—usually members of the Birds WikiProject.

Contents 1 Instructions 1.1 Requesting a review 1.2 Responding to a request 1.3 Archiving 2 Requests 2.1 Osprey 2.2 American Crow

[edit] Instructions

[edit] Requesting a review

1. Add peer-review=yes to the {{BirdTalk}} project banner at the top of the article's talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax).
2. From there, click on the "request has been made" link that appears in the template. This will open a page to discuss the review of your article.
3. Place === [[Name of nominated article]] === at the top.
4. Below it, write your reason for nominating the article and sign by using four tildes (~~~~).
5. Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Peer review/Name of nominated article}} at the top of the list of requests on this page.

[edit] Responding to a request

Everyone is encouraged to comment on any request listed here. To comment on an article, please add a new section (using ==== [[User:Your name|Your name]] ====) for your comments, in order to keep multiple responses legible.

[edit] Archiving

Reviews should be archived after they have been inactive for some time, or when the article is nominated as a featured article candidate. To archive a review:

1. Replace peer-review=yes with old-peer-review=yes in the {{BirdTalk}} project banner template at the top of the article's talk page
2. Move {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Peer review/Name of nominated article}} from this page to the current archive page.

[edit] Requests

[edit] Osprey

I have added Osprey to generate interest in it, as (one day) a possible FAC. It is a cosmopolitan bird which people all over the world are familiar with and thus anyone on wikiproject birds unless they live in Antarctica. cheers Cas Liber 20:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] American Crow

I've made significant changes to the article. I'd like some feedback on what needs to be done going forward. Elliskev 17:44, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Briefly

• First off the laundry list in the popular culture needs to be made into paragraphs. I think the title should be changed to Role in culture since popular culture is more here and now. And incidentally, many of the instances mentioned of their role in culture seem not to be specific of American Crows, they could easily be of many other species. Are there any cultural roles specific to American Crows (maybe in Native American legends?)
• The introduction should be a summary of the whole article, not the section on description (per MOS). Move that section into a new subheading (Description, which you should merge with Voice) then summarise the article in the intro.
• There is quite a bit more that can be said about the biology of the species, if you are at a university I suggest reading Cornell University's Birds of North America [1] for more info. Sabine's Sunbird talk 23:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll try to come up with a plan for this. --Elliskev 00:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

The lead is a little short. LuciferMorgan 15:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

• There are four, according to ITIS, subspecies of the American Corw. They should be mentioned, along iwth their ranges, in the article. This could be done by renaming similar species to Taxonomy and adding the info there. Joelito (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
• There are many publication on this species from which the article can be expanded. Check out [2] and search for the species. Joelito (talk) 16:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)