Talk:Myrmecia nigriceps

Improving article

I will be improving this article, so stand by for major edits for the next upcoming days. I hope to bring this to good article level. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Myrmecia nigriceps/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Dunkleosteus77 (talk · contribs) 18:24, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Comments by Dunkleosteus77

Yet another great ant article, Burklemore.

Thanks Dunkleosteus, I appreciate it a lot! By the way, I noticed you promoted Myrmecia to GA status, but I have received no notification of promotion, nor do I see the GA icon. I'm not sure if the bot is taking it's time, unless you may have done something accidentally?

Check again tomorrow, it doesn't happen immediately (usually it takes a day or two). If not, then I did do something wrong.

Ah okay. Usually for others it didn't take very long (only a couple of minutes for me), may be something wrong with the bot.

Okay, I just figured out you haven't done anything, it's actually the bot that is screwing up. A user has already picked up on the issue. See the talk here. We'll have to manually add the templates, so go to this template. Burklemore1 (talk) 02:51, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

After your hard work, you have succesfully promoted yet another myrmecia ant article to GA status. Good luck with the others! I'll close this, and you should get alerted sometime tomorrow. Dunkleosteus77 ^{(push to talk)} 22:03, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much for the detailed review, hopefully the bot will work by then. Expect Myrmecia inquilina to be nominated soon! Burklemore1 (talk) 03:51, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

Image review

• In the "Behaviour and Ecology" section, there's an image of a Black-headed bull ant. Is that the common name for M. nigriceps? If so, please specify in the Taxonomy and Lead sections.

Not entirely sure. Alex Wild, who is an entomologist calls it the black-headed bull ant in one of his images though (see here).

Then add that in the lead (in bold) and in the Taxonomy section, and use that link as a ref (cite web)

Are you sure on using a potentially unreliable source, despite it published by an entomologist?

Nevermind, I have a found a nice source.

General comments

• Is this written in Australian English? If so, please add the template {{Australian English}} to the talk page.

Done.

• Add quotation marks around the italicized book title "Myrmecologische Studien". Also, could you find an online copy of it and add it directly after the sentence as a ref?

The reference is a journal article, but I have found an online copy of it. I have added the link in.

• "...but he would later treat it as a synonym in 1910" don't use present progressive, use past tense, "but he (later/eventually) treated it as a synonym in 1910"

Done.

• "apart of the primitive subfamily Myrmeciinae" did you mean "a part of" or "apart from"?

Done.

• What do the smaller ant workers do?

I read an article that studied the ecology of M. pyriformis and I believe the smaller workers tend to the brood and construct tunnels while the larger ones provide defence and forage for food. They also noted the demise of a colony is noticeable when smaller workers take up the roles of foraging and defence. This could correlate with M. nigriceps, but I'm not sure.

Try looking it up on google scholar and see if you find anything.

No luck.

Actually, does this article ever talk about the worker ants (other than briefly mention them)?

Not really, entomologists haven't really looked in depth with this species. The only thing I found was possible polymorphism among the workers.

Then add a paragraph on that in the Description section or add on to an existing paragraph.

No problem, I should be able to do that tonight. I have just noticed polymorphism is already discussed, but I have done a minor expansion.

• Add a comma after
  • the statement on the measurement of a queen ant "...26mm, and males..."

Done.

• • "red or yellowish red..."

Done.

• • "The nests and behaviour, however..." (after "however")

Done.

• • "...the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria" after "Territory" (this one is optional)

I may disregard this one since there are not three or more things being listed in the sentence.

• • "...Cockroaches such as Platyzosteria castanea and Platyzosteria ruficeps can..." after Cockroaches and after ruficeps

Done.

• "the extreme north and north-western Australia", did you mean "northern Australian coast"?

Done.

• " pleatus", did you mean "plateaus"?

Yes. I thought I spelled it correctly, oops.

• "from 304 to 457 metres (1,000 to 1,500 ft)" round off the meters to 300 and 460

Done.

• "can repel attacks by M. nigriceps, by" remove the comma before "by"

Done.

• "largest eye lenses and photoreceptors in comparison to other Myrmecia ants"-->"than any other Myrmecia ant"

Done.

• "While the mandibles cause little to no in humans", little to no what?

Shit, I forgot to add "pain". Good catch.

• "Unlike Honeybees..." use another Myrmecia species

No Myrmecia species have a barbed stinger.

What about other ant species?

Honeybees are the only known Hymenopteran to have a barbed stinger, so no species of ant is barbed.

Then instead of saying "Unlike Honeybees...", say "Like other ants..."

Done.

• "...whose (LD50) is..." why is it parentheses?

Done.

• "Nuptial flight"-->"Nuptial flight"

Done.

Citations review

• For the " Mayr, Gustav" and "Forel, Auguste (1907)" refs, specify that they're written in German by adding the |language=German| parameter

Done.

• For "Forel, Auguste (1910)" ref, specify that it's written in French (is it French?)

Yeah, it's French. Done.

• For "Wilson, Edward O" ref, add the date published as opposed to the year published

Did some updates with other sources by changing it from "year' to "date", though I didn't see any for Wilson.

It says "Published online 2005 May 17" in small font on the top for the link provided

Hm, I decided to reincorporate the source, so it should be gone now.

• Use converter to convert ISBN-10 (I see one in Hölldobler, Bert) to ISBN-13 (like the rest)

Done.

That is all I can do for now, as I'll be out. I should be able to address all of your issues by tonight when I get home. Burklemore1 (talk) 04:18, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

I have addressed all of your issues above, so can you please double check my edits? Cheers, Burklemore1 (talk) 13:09, 5 October 2015 (UTC)