Talk:Chelymorpha alternans

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2024

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2024 and 25 April 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Luisss79 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Esacchetti (talk) 21:07, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Feedback for Wikipedia assignment

I'm a student at WashU, and as part of the Behavioral Ecology 2024 Wiki Education Assignment, I wanted to give you some feedback on this Wikipedia page. I've sent in a Google document with edits regarding this article to the Wiki assignment. Overall, I thought this article was very-well written and thought out. I had only a few grammatical and spelling suggestions, however, most of the focus of my comments was on working on your flow. Otherwise, great job. It was very informative and well-written, and I enjoyed learning about the beetle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikakipnisuser (talk • contribs) 04:59, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Launchballer talk 17:58, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

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A metallic neotropical tortoise beetle on a leaf

• ... that the neotropical tortoise beetle has a flagellum length up to three times the size of its body? Source: https://research.si.edu/publication-details/?id=51582
  Page 746: "The flagellum (lower ejaculatory duct) of the male Chelymorpha alternans may exceed three times its overall body length, by any measure an exaggerated morphological characteristic."
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Created by Luisss79 (talk). Self-nominated at 08:28, 1 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Chelymorpha alternans; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Article is sufficiently new, long and cute, and looks very impressive, especially for somebody who has just started editing! I've checked a few sources manually for copyright violations, and they came out clean :). Imagine is clear at low resolution, and is appropriately licensed.
  • The DYK line contains jargon (flagellum), which makes it less interesting for the mainpage. Is there a way to explain? The article itself also does not explain what a flagellum is, which is a shame. Typically, Wikipedia wants the lead of an article to be relatively easy to understand, with a bit more leeway for jargon in the body.
  • The source statement is slightly different from the DYK statement (up to 3x vs more than 3x).
  • The statement "Although 12 phenotypes are theoretically possible, only these 5 have been demonstrated in both a field and laboratory setting" does not seem quite supported by the source. It says 4 have been demonstrated in field and laboratory setting. If you count different, the 12 must also be different, right? —Femke 🐦 (talk) 09:12, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

@Luisss79: Please respond to the above. Z1720 (talk) 15:19, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Marking for closure due to a lack of response from @Luisss79:. This can be reopened if they return or if someone else takes over the nomination. Z1720 (talk) 19:21, 31 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer review

Overall, this was really well written and cited! I just made a few minor changes to make the information more clear (split up some sentences, added some commas, and elaborated on some of the information from sources). One more significant change I made was with the number of phenotypes under the color polymorphism section. In general, though, great job! You covered a lot of topics and the entry was easy to understand. Esacchetti (talk) 20:12, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer Review (2)

Overall, a great submission. Maintained a neutral tone and effectively introduced many facts about the beetle! I went through and did minor grammar, word choice, and syntax choice edits to help improve clarity and concision throughout the page. I also changed the heading under diet from "Larvae" to "Larvae Diet." Finally, I added a picture after the habitat section to give some more illustration to the page! There was a large variety of topics that gave a great overview of this beetle. If you ever want to elaborate or research more to add, I would suggest adding more details on the pre-copulatory courtship behavior, predation, or life cycle! Hahelen (talk) 22:34, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer Review

I think this article was very well-written and engaging. The only changes I made were organizational and cutting some repetitive information. I changed “Color polymorphism” from a subheading under the “Description” section to its own section because I think the color polymorphism is one of the most notable characteristics about the neotropical tortoise beetle. Also, in the short description at the beginning, there was some mating information and geographical information that I moved to their respective sections later on in the article or cut out of the introduction so the same information is not repeated twice. Overall, I think this article is very well done and shows a lot of effort. Geluck.t (talk) 18:15, 24 April 2024 (UTC)