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- Should the featured article rotate?
+1, a nomination page would be good
- Should the featured article rotate?
Right now the featured slot is hard-coded to Octopus. It would be better if it rotated, or at least if there were a queue somewhere that people could…
- Missing: fisheries and conservation
Please make sure it covers the welfare research properly, it's the reason the farming plans got blocked in some places.
- Missing: fisheries and conservation
I can take a first pass at fisheries this week if nobody else has started.
- Missing: fisheries and conservation
There's nothing here on octopus fishing, which is a substantial industry, or on the recent arguments about octopus farming and welfare legislation.…
- How much detail on the prosecution?
The fix is probably to expand the science rather than cut the biography. Reaction–diffusion deserves more than a paragraph.
- How much detail on the prosecution?
The section on the 1952 conviction is three paragraphs and the section on morphogenesis is one. I don't think that balance is right for an article…
- Neuron count needs a source
I've added "roughly" and softened the two-thirds figure to "around two thirds". A proper source would still be better than the hedging.
- Neuron count needs a source
The figure of 500 million neurons is widely repeated, but the underlying counts vary quite a bit by species and by counting method. Should we say…
- Plural of "octopus"
octopodes is correct though
- Plural of "octopus"
It's defensible, but it isn't what people write. Encyclopedias follow usage rather than leading it.
- Plural of "octopus"
Agreed. I've changed the one occurrence in the Behaviour section.
- Plural of "octopus"
The article avoids the plural in the lead, which reads a little awkwardly. For the record: octopuses is standard English, octopodes is the…
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