User:Nic H. Nguyen/sandbox

Article Draft Proposal

For my wikipedia article edit I have chosen to work on the Rossia Pacifica page. This is a start class article with a low importance rating. After researching Rossia Pacifica (The Stubby Squid) I would like to update the page with more information, like mating patterns, egg fertilization and hatching, and add another fact on Distribution and Habitat. I would also like to add a separate "Reproduction" subheading under the "Behavior" section because after adding my facts to the article there will be enough information to warrant a more organized layout. This would help make the visual aspect of the article more consistent and convenient for specific material. Also to add a few hyperlinks to technical marine biology language linking the corresponding Wikipedia article. I believe this will help people if they don't have advanced knowledge of cephalopod anatomy or are interested in learning more. The picture will be moved so that it no longer breaks up the flow of the article but is larger to compensate. There have been very minor wording changes in several places as well just to make the sentence flow in a more neutral tone.

Article Evaluation - Rossia pacifica

Everything from my topic was relevant

The article remained neutral

The information available on behavior focuses on movement and breeding habits but includes nothing else like diet, self defense, etc.

All the sources work and link to reputable scientific sources with neutral, relevant and factual information, although there aren't many

I don't think current information has changed but it is missing some information we have learned which are not in the article

There is nothing on the wiki talk page

The article is rated Start class and part of the cephalopods wikiProject

This article is definitely meant to inform and educate

Article Additions

For my wikipedia edit, I'm going to work on the Rossia Pacifica article. These are the additions and improvements:

• researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) claim to have spotted the specimen at even greater depths
• It has been found to be able to live and survive in highly polluted urban west coast bay areas of the United States..

• Add "reproduction" as subheadings in "Behavior" section
• both male and female die after mating, they live for only two years
• The female lays 25-50 eggs about a cm in diameter on clam shells, sponge masses or the underside of over-hanging rocks, then she dies. The eggs hatch in four to nine months. The egg capsules have to be tough and durable to protect the embryos for so long; empty egg capsules have been kept in running water for another six months with no apparent decay. The eggs receive no parental care.
• Each egg (4-5 mm in diameter) is contained in a large (8 mm by 15 mm) capsule.
• The sexes are separate. Males impregnate the females with a modified arm tip that transfers sperm. The male grasps the female from the ventral side with the long tentacles. Animals are oriented so that both heads face the same direction. Male's hectocotylus, its left first arm, is inserted into the female's mantle cavity, where it deposits the spermatophores.
• This species is benthic in coastal waters, subtidal (16-370 m) but on rare occasions at night found swimming at the shore in the intertidal zone.
• They eat with a horny beak inside their mouths, located underneath the body at the center of the arms.
• While it is nicknamed the stubby squid, it is actually not and considered it's own family and closer to the cuttlefish
• Stubby squid tend to stay on the ocean floor like their octopus cousins, but have the same number of tentacles as squid (eight thick limbs with suckers, plus two long arms).
• Highly adapted for raptorial feeding and a carnivorous diet

Sarah Louise Judd

http://www.wchsmn.org/historical-messenger/minnesotas-first-commercial-photographer/

• born Farmington, Connecticut on June 26, 1802
• in 1838 became stockholders in a new company located in Maine Mills in 1944
• first teacher in Washington County and Stillwater
• active entrepeneur that aided in her husband's bookstore
• promiment in the local First Presbytarian Church

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/72927568/sarah-louise-eldridge#view-photo=45104566

• either October 11, 1881 or October 10, 1886

http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/daguerreotype/history.html

• The Daguerreotype was invented in France in 1839