User talk:Jtad1998d

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

Review for "Brackish Marsh" page additions

Hi Jtad1998d - good job editing the Wikipedia page on brackish marshes! You've added a lot of useful information to this page. What follows is a review by an external reviewer who based their comments on the version of your page that's available at this link.

Reviewer comments:

You have substantially improved the content of the Brackish Marsh page by adding a lot of new information. Good job. Below are specific comments on the page

General comments

• When writing a number less than 1, always start with a 0. For example, 0.1 instead of .1
• Don’t forget to add your citations at the bottom of the page
• Watch your capitalizations. In this sentence, “These high brackish marshes Can support storm protection for the inner coastal areas, as well as a buffer for stormwater and overflow of the ground water.” Can should not be capitalized
• In a number of places, you’ve inserted bold and/or italic text. In most cases this text formatting can be removed, and instead, you could insert links to other Wikipedia pages to improve cross-referencing (for example, “salt grass” could be linked to the Wikipedia page on this topic)
• To improve the organization of your page, you could do the following:
  • Remove the header “overview”
  • Add headers for both the “Low Marsh” and “High Marsh” sections to draw a clear distinction between them.

Before first paragraph:

• If you decide to keep the title header, remove the dashes before and after “Overview”

First Paragraph

• In the introduction it would be nice to immediately define what brackish means (example the mixing of freshwater and saltwater) as the average reader may not know what brackish means. You might also quantify the amount of salinity in brackish water versus freshwater versus saltwater so that the reader understands a range of salinity that brackish water contains in comparison with other water types
• You could also define what a marsh is in terms of the vegetation – a marsh is a wetland that contains herbaceous plants (you could use this reference: Mitsch, W.J. and J.G. Gosselink. 2007. Wetlands, Fourth edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, Jew Jersey). This could be compared with a swamp which is a wetland with woody vegetation (shrubs and trees). By adding this right away in the first paragraph you help the reader understand that wetlands are defined greatly based on their type of vegetation.
• You've done a good job of explaining how the high and low marshes differ in terms of their hydrology, but a statement of what drives these differences would be helpful (for example, is it because high marshes sit at a higher elevation?)

Figures

• The figure needs a caption – be specific so that the reader can get a comprehensive understanding of the figure without reading the Wikipedia article.
• It looks as though there are a couple of pictures that aren’t displaying correctly (salt meadow grass and salt grass)

I hope the above is helpful as you wrap up your edits on your Wikipedia page! If you have any questions about this review, please let me know and I'll help you contact the reviewer. JoGDelta (talk) 21:43, 30 November 2020 (UTC)