User talk:SarMar/sandbox

Topic Recommendations

I noticed that you selected the topic "parrotbill egg recognition". There is currently no article for this specific topic in this group of species, but there are few sentences about egg recognition in the brood parasite article. Therefore, I am a bit concerned about there being enough new information. I would expand your topic to be more broad (i.e. "egg recognition mechanisms") or select another topic. Jpethier (talk) 12:56, 16 October 2017 (UTC)jpethier

Peer Review

Your outline demonstrates a really clear understanding of where you want to take the material and it seems to me that your article will definitely give a comprehensive overview of parrotbill egg recognition and its relationship to brood parasitism. Similar to the above review I also noted that it should be clear what the behavior in question in such, perhaps the primary article you mentioned has a very concise way of describing it! Also maybe to unpack the evolutionary benefit/relationship of the cuckoo to the parrotbill you mention in your lead summary would be a good idea. Maybe even giving a separate section to quickly discussing the evolutionary benefit of the behaviour the parrotbill has developed? Is this type of recognition-behaviour demonstrated in the reproductive behaviour of other organisms (could make a good "See Also" section) Other than that you seem to have a really solid idea here that will definitely work with more fleshing out and sources to support the outline you have going! Rehewitt (talk) 19:35, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Article Evaluation

As part of the third week's assignment, I have chosen the Weasel war dance Wikipedia page to evaluate based on what I observed and learned from the online Wikipedia training. This article is rated as a stub-class article and is said to be "within the scope of WikiProject Mammals". It is only a paragraph and a sentence long, but everything in the article is relevant information to the topic. I did not find the article to be biased or leaning on a certain opinion, it relayed content with scientific references. One section that may be considered unscientific is the line that reads "In colloquial language, the weasel war dance is a behavior of excited ferrets and other weasels" where colloquial language is a term used by local/ordinary people. The viewpoint of the behavior of the weasel war dance can seem one-sided as there is a point where no source is indicated and an editor suggested that a citation was needed although it may be factual information. The references that are listed and that are cited within the article are working links to two online books. These two books have listed authors and publishers and the information within them seems to be neutral and factual information. The books are both over five years and new information may have be discovered on this topic. I then took a look at the Talk tab where there were several comments, some including an issue with the meaning of ferret, another questioning the scientific basis of this phenomena (author replied saying information was) and another asking for a video on this behavior (also provided by author). Once there is more written on this article/topic, there will be more to compare to the way animal behavior is discussed in class.

Link to article discussed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_war_dance