Talk:Seabird

Seabird is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 2, 2007.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 3, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
September 2, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
September 8, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
May 15, 2021	Featured article review	Demoted
Current status: Former featured article

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FA concerns[edit]

Hi editors, this article has not been reviewed since 2006 and I am concerned that it does not meet the featured article criteria anymore. Specifically, I am concerned about the "Diet and feeding" section before the next subheading, and the "Seabird families" sections that do not have citations, and various sentences at the end of paragraphs. I also noticed that many citations source the whole journal but do not give the specific page numbers where the cited information can be found. Is anyone interested in bringing this to FA standards? Z1720 (talk) 23:39, 30 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A further concern is the lack of discussion on climate change, which was identified as one of the three major threats to seabirds. Femke Nijsse (talk) 11:02, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There is some material that could be added to the classification section - such as recent groupings - Aequornithes and more. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:35, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

See [1] for aequornithes entering sea in Cretaceous Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:52, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Also Mayr's work Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 04:53, 4 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be a significant omission in content about threats to seabirds from plastic. The word "plastic" does not appear in the article at present, yet plastic in the oceans is widely recognised as a major threat to seabirds. For example, see this reference: [[2]. Marshelec (talk) 08:55, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]