Talk:Black mamba

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March 16, 2019	Featured article candidate	Promoted
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Range map

Was about to nominate after closing peer review and realised it needs a sourced and more accurate range map. Will have a look around... Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 05:04, 7 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Popular culture

Many similar articles have a section on human relations, cultural depictions, in popular culture, or the like, where human relations with the animal, cultural depictions, myths and legends, parts in stories (films, books, etc.) throughout human history are discussed. I expected this animal to have that as well, and I expected to find a name-drop for Kill Bill in there. Seeing as this is an FA, I have to ask, has this particular animal never caught the imagination of any humans other than Tarantino, or what? Thanks! Usedtobecool ^TALK ✨ 06:29, 18 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Why “black”?

The (current) article doesn’t explain the name. I checked archives (but not history).

Why “black”? “Grey” not scary enough?

“Green” named earlier or later?

Who named it?

MBG02 (talk) 02:39, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Venom Potency

It's hard to believe this a featured article, when even the units of measurements was inaccurate. I corrected the Units used. The scientific papers cited used micrograms, the wiki article had them in milligrams. As can be seen in this screenshot: https://ibb.co/4tdtwqJ Pincotti4 (talk) 14:51, 2 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Pincotti4: The source uses μg/g. Our article uses mg/kg. 1 μg/g = 1 mg/kg. Please read the sources carefully before introducing errors in a featured article (or any other article, really). Best, RetiredDuke (talk) 10:41, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Casliber: Is snakedatabase.org a reliable source? It wasn't there at time of promotion, obviously (and it's formatted as an ugly url, that's why I noticed it in the first place). Can you please check? Thanks, RetiredDuke (talk) 10:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Pincotti4: try to submit an appeal from one of the original accounts next time and it can be opened for a community discussion. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:02, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Casliber: Woah, I see this got you involved in a bit of a cleanup job. I went ahead and removed the sentence sourced to the website above, looked fishy to me. Just a heads up. RetiredDuke (talk) 14:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]