Talk:Chenanisaurus

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GA review

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

Nominator: Augustios Paleo (talk · contribs) 01:41, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Jens Lallensack (talk · contribs) 11:33, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing now. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 11:33, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Wikilinking could be improved. Why not link bones to the glossary as we usually do? For example, it is not very helpful to pipe-link "dentary" to Mandible; instead, {{Dinogloss|Dentary}} (giving Dentary) would provide dinosaur-specific information. Then, some wikilinks (such as teeth) are WP:OVERLINK; you can assume that readers know what a tooth is.

• upper Maastrichtian age – either "late Maastrichtian age" or "upper Maastrichtian stage".

• Source 1 is not freely accessible, please correct reference accordingly

• What is Sidi Chennane?

• Fossils of Chenanisaurus were first discovered in the phosphate mines of Couche III, a layer of the Ouled Abdoun Basin located in Sidi Chennane outside of Khouribga in northern Morocco. The remains known of Chenanisaurus consist of a single, incomplete dentary, cataloged as OCP DEK-GE 772 at the Office Cherifien des Phosphates in Khouribga, from one quarry as well as three teeth; two premaxillary teeth from Sidi Daoui and a maxillary tooth from either Sidi Chennane or Sidi Daoui. These two quarries correspond to the Ouled Abdoun Basin, which dates to the upper Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous period. – Please rewrite this. A phosphate mine is not a "layer", the ";" does not make sense to me (I don't know what parts of the sentence belong together), "These two quarries" is referring to which ones precisely, and how do you know these are quarries and not mines?

• 68–66 Ma – this is unsourced in the taxonbox

• There is an error in citation 25

• Cite 26 needs to be formatted with the relevant metadata (author, publisher, retrieval date etc.)

Spot check

• The jaw's surface is rugose right below the alveoli where the interdental plates have fused. – This is attributed to source 8, but in fact it is in source 1. Moreover, it is close paraphrasing and therefore a copyright concern. The source says The jaw is rugose just below the alveoli, where the interdental plates have fused which is almost a copy-paste. Also note that this sentence is very technical and unclear; if you do not fully understand it, it is best to simplify or not to include it at all. If you do not fully understand it, nobody will, so it is pointless to include it.
• The jaw's surface is rugose right below the alveoli where the interdental plates have fused. This trait is found in other ceratosaurs on their dentaries and their maxillae – where are the "maxillae" mentioned in the source? This also does not make sense: You say "right below the alveoli", in the maxilla, this would be where the teeth are.
• Above this groove is a series of neurovascular (nerve) foramina (openings in bone), which opens upwards into dorsally-extended sulci (grooves). – the source says dorsal to this groove are a series of neurovascular foramina, which open upwards into shallow sulci that extend dorsally, which again is close paraphrasing.

Conclusion: The article in general is in good shape. However, the spot check uncovered two instances of copyright violation (close paraphrasing). Please check throughout that there are no more. When done, I would have to do another spot check and if I find more instances of close paraphrasing, I have to fail the article per the instructions. According to WP:GAFAIL, copyright violations are reason enough for immediate failure, and a GA has to be definitely free of those. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 13:06, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

all suggestions have been implemented, is this good? I saw that you've already fixed some as well. AFH (talk) 22:27, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• You still didn't fix the last reference? (#26)
• meaning they were sharper towards the top – denticles do not make teeth sharper, they rather add stability.
• The first paragraph of "Classification" does not make sense and Ceratosaurus does not have a deep mandible, nor does the source say this. You are mixing two separate features together. Please revise.
• Don't wikilink continents, that's WP:OVERCITE. Why do you pipe-link South America to the South American tapir? That's mysterious.
• This made the description of an abelisaurid tooth, one now assigned to Chenanisaurus, particularly noteworthy. – remove this per WP:EDITORIAL; we do not have to repeat the marketing language of the papers, and this does not really add anything as you already said that the find is unique in this regard.
• The Dinogloss links are not working like this. You are doing this: [[Premaxilla|{{dinogloss|premaxillary}}]]. You should just do this: {{Dinogloss|premaxilla}} --Jens Lallensack (talk) 14:07, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Is this everything? Also, there is no citatition 26. I did however fix another citation. AFH (talk) 00:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, should be good to go. Sorry for the delay, I am a bit busy. --Jens Lallensack (talk) 19:21, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above 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.