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A fact from Licancabur appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 February 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Licancabur(pictured), despite being smaller than many of the neighbouring volcanoes, stands out among them?
A fact from Licancabur appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 March 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Licancabur volcano (pictured) was venerated by the Atacamenos?
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I just did a moderate expansion/rewrite on the article in order to prepare it for FAC, which thus ended up quite distinct from the older version. I'd like to have someone check if it still meets the GA criteria. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 15:15, 19 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The "Display links to disambiguation pages in orange" gadget in your preferences will show you numerous links which need to be specified. I would suggest having a look at links more broadly: e.g. he Inka/Inca (the former spelling is used more often in article, but the latter seems to be preferred generally on-wiki) are mentioned in the first section but are not mentioned until the archaeology section. You have some citation issues: #1 is not defined, while Ceruti 2012 requires a journal name.
More relevant to the GA criteria: adherence to WP:LEAD appears to be spotty—quite a lot of the article is not adequately summarized by the lead. You may also take a look towards copyediting, perhaps through WP:GOCE: sentences such as "Politically, it is located in the Antofagasta Region of Chile and the Potosí Department of Bolivia; the Treaty of Valparaiso establishes the border between Bolivia and Chile as passing over the mountain" could be trimmed of duplication, while "The slopes of the mountain are notably unstable; anecdotally, the noise can be heard all around the mountain" is a slight non-sequitur, as the connection between the instability and noise has not been directly made (and indeed, being mentioned only in Rudolph 1955, could it really be described as "notable"?)
Try to avoid "5 – −25 °C (41 – −13 °F), decreasing to −25 – −40 °C (−13 – −40 °F)", it is quite unpleasant to look at and MOS:RANGE recommends not to do it.
"The summit at 5,916 metres (19,409 ft) elevation[26][c] is capped by a summit crater is 500 metres (1,600 ft)[19]-400 metres (1,300 ft) wide summit crater that lacks large flat areas" apart from the obvious editing debris grammar problem, perhaps better to untangle this into several sentences ("The elevation of the summit is 5916 metres. It is capped by summit crater with a diameter of 400–500 metres and does not have any large flat areas").
Images: perhaps try to improve captions? Licancabur Lake is the black blob in the centre? The Laguna Verde photo is amazing, perhaps tell us in the caption that this is at 4000+m elevation?
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"The total volume of the volcano is about 35 cubic kilometres (8.4 cu mi)[18] or 44 cubic kilometres (11 cu mi)." I think this should be rephrased -- it makes it sound as if it's one or the other. I haven't looked at how the sources phrase this, but could we do something like "Two recent estimates of the volcano's volume are ..." or "The total volume of the volcano has been variously estimated as ... or ..."?
"The Chaxas lava dome was active during the Pliocene when it formed ignimbrites now buried under Licancabur." and "At the volcano, the basement is covered by ignimbrites[32] from the Chaxas, La Pacana[19] and Purico volcanoes". Given the second mention, presumably we can cut the first sentence?
"The magma deposits were stored in a chambers where crystals formed": presumably should be "chamber", but I don't follow what this is telling me. If I recall correctly from reading your previous FACs, magma is always in a magma chamber of some kind, and you've already mentioned that crystals have formed, so what do we learn from this?
Per MOS:RANGE, don't use en dash ranges with "from". I would avoid the en dash ranges with negative temperatures anyway as they are visually confusing.
"The Atacama Desert is one of the driest on Earth. The arid climate is due to subsidence of air within the South Pacific Anticyclone, which extends to the Andes. Owing to the dry climate, snow cover on Licancabur is ephemeral and there are no glaciers." I don't think we need to explain the aridity of the Atacama in this article. Suggest "The Atacama Desert is one of the driest on Earth, and as a result, snow cover on Licancabur is ephemeral and there are no glaciers."
"There are no known historical or Holocene eruptions, and the preservation of Inca ruins in the summit implies that it has been inactive for 600–1000 years. However, the elevated temperatures in the crater imply that the volcano still has heat, while lava flows overran 13,240 ± 100 years old shorelines at Laguna Verde." If the flank lava flows mentioned are the same thing as the lava flows overrunning the lake's shoreline, then suggest "There are no known historical or Holocene eruptions; the most recent flows are thought to be lava which overran the 13,240 ± 100 years old shorelines at Laguna Verde. The preservation of Inca ruins in the summit implies that it has been inactive for 600–1000 years. However, the elevated temperatures in the crater imply that the volcano is still generating [or "producing", or "contains"] heat."
OK, but here we say "Given the volcano is remote from inhabited areas, any pyroclastic fallout would be of limited extent" which implies that the limited extent would be because of the remoteness, which makes no sense. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:16, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"A stone semicircle surrounding an upright stone has been compared to an altar, ushnu." Suggest "A stone semicircle surrounding an upright stone has been compared to an Incan altar known as an ushnu".
"Notably, no human sacrifices (capacocha) are associated with Licancabur": why "notably"? And given that there is only archaeological evidence and no written records, how can this be known?
I think what's bothering me here is that I suspect that the local pottery styles are not from the same period as the Inca pottery, but this doesn't say that. I.e. I suspect we could say something like "Inca pottery and post-Inca styles from the local Atacameno people", but I don't know what the source will support. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:14, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sauce says "In addition to classical Inca pottery, we observed many local pottery styles on the surface at the tambo (Barón and Reinhard 1981)" and isn't available online. I'll put a request to WP:RX but experience says nobody will have access. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 17:44, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"The Inca road passed at the foot of the volcano, making the site easily accessible" I assume this means it would have been accessible for the Incas, rather than saying it's accessible now. If so, I suggest moving this sentence up above the "has been interpreted as" sentence, so that we have the road mentioned in consecutive sentences.
"The male Licancabur was married to female Quimal in the Cordillera Domeyko". Assuming I understand the intended meaning, how about "Licancabur and Quimal, another mountain in the Cordillera Domeyko, were considered to be married; Licancabur was the male and Quimal the female partner."
"Whether there are legends of Inca treasury associated with Licancabur is unclear." I don't follow this -- you've just related a legend of Inca treasury.
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