Template:Did you know nominations/Parankylosauria
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:19, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
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Parankylosauria
- ... that species in the dinosaur group Parankylosauria have tail weaponry termed a "macuahuitl", in reference to the Mesoamerican weapons of the same name? Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04147-1
"Among amniotes, herbivores with osteoderms and stiff trunks are more likely to evolve specialized tail weapons1,32, and armoured dinosaurs in particular are the only clade to have evolved three different kinds of tail weapons: paired spikes (thagomizers) in stegosaurs, clubs in ankylosaurines and the ‘mac-uahuitl’ of Stegouros (our suggested term, after the Aztec war club)."
- Comment: Only four past DYK credits, so exempt from QPQ.
Created by LittleLazyLass (talk). Self-nominated at 20:14, 1 December 2021 (UTC).
Article is long enough and new enough. Eearwig doesn't detect any copyvio issue. No WP:NPOV issues. I am a little concerned that the entire article is referenced to a single source, but an article in Nature is certainly a WP:RS and the DYK criteria is only that the article has "appropriate citations". The hook is fine. QPQ exempt. The nom doesn't include it, but I think adding File:Minmi model Canberra email.jpg would be an improvement. -- RoySmith (talk) 04:15, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Only concern I would have with including the image is that it doesn't depict the tail weaponry the hook is about; there is image of the macuahuitl available (File:Stegouros_tail.jpg) not currently displayed on the page, but given it isolates the tail it may be difficult for lay readers to interpret at a glance. Perhaps File:Stegouros_elengassen_original_Luis_Pérez_López.jpg could work; there's room to add it to the bottom of the Parankylosauria article if that's a requirement. LittleLazyLass (Talk | Contributions) 04:46, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- It's clear that Antarctopelta has a similar weapon to Stegouros, but the tail is not preserved in Kunbarrasaurus, and it's not clear that it would have shared the weapon. Hemiauchenia (talk) 05:30, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, but my point is showing a parankylosaur reconstruction without one as the associated image for a hook entirely about the macuahuitls would be quite counterproductive. LittleLazyLass (Talk | Contributions) 05:50, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Why not have use one of the images currently in the Stegouros article then, which actually shows the structure? Hemiauchenia (talk) 05:53, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- That's... exactly the suggestion I brought up in my above message? Both the images I mentioned are the ones from there. LittleLazyLass (Talk | Contributions) 06:16, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Why not have use one of the images currently in the Stegouros article then, which actually shows the structure? Hemiauchenia (talk) 05:53, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Yes, but my point is showing a parankylosaur reconstruction without one as the associated image for a hook entirely about the macuahuitls would be quite counterproductive. LittleLazyLass (Talk | Contributions) 05:50, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- It's clear that Antarctopelta has a similar weapon to Stegouros, but the tail is not preserved in Kunbarrasaurus, and it's not clear that it would have shared the weapon. Hemiauchenia (talk) 05:30, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
- Only concern I would have with including the image is that it doesn't depict the tail weaponry the hook is about; there is image of the macuahuitl available (File:Stegouros_tail.jpg) not currently displayed on the page, but given it isolates the tail it may be difficult for lay readers to interpret at a glance. Perhaps File:Stegouros_elengassen_original_Luis_Pérez_López.jpg could work; there's room to add it to the bottom of the Parankylosauria article if that's a requirement. LittleLazyLass (Talk | Contributions) 04:46, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
