Talk:Phanaeus vindex

Picture confusion

Isn't that an african dung beetle? arent rainbow scarabs alot more colorful? —Preceding unsigned comment added by IvanTortuga (talk • contribs) 02:39, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

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): Sachi.sb (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Sachi.sb (talk) 18:29, 1 April 2024 (UTC)

Feedback

This entry about the Phanaeus vindex, or the rainbow scarab, does a great job at providing detailed information about the rainbow scarab’s food sources, life history, mating, and development information. The prose of this entry is also very clear and understandable. The entry also does a great job of providing citations at the end of each paragraph. However for some larger paragraphs, like the second paragraph in the Mating section, it could help clarify where the information is referenced by including the citation in the middle of the paragraph as well. Some things to consider for further improvement include adding information about the beetle’s habitat, geographic range, and its interaction with humans. The lead section can also be lengthened. Usually, for an entry of this length, it is nice to include a lead section of around 3 paragraphs to let readers know what this entry will cover.

Here are some edits I made:

• Added hyperlinks to certain terms to better integrate this article into Wikipedia.
• Added an image of the beetle to increase the media content.
• Added citations to larger paragraphs with only one citation at the end to help readers understand where the information is from.
• Italicized species name where it wasn’t italicized.

Justinxuje (talk) 20:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

This was a great article with a lot of solid facts and good word flow. I made a couple changes to your writing to improve the flow and reduce word clutter. For example, reworded the first sentence so that your parentheses flow with our writing instead of sounding like something separate. I also made a couple grammatical changes in the next paragraph to purge some of the run-on sentences. This can be seen from Additionally, the ends of the male abdomen…to…colored in both sexes. Your paragraph of food resources was very good. I just made some changes to your topic sentence. I made a couple other minor grammatical changes, but, all in all, your writing was exceptional. Kidsnextdoor954 (talk) 03:17, 12 April 2024 (UTC)Kidsnextdoor954

I enjoyed reading this article. It seems well written and easy to read. It follows the wikipedia format well, and I only needed to fix slight capitalization issues and italicization. I also added a parasites section just because I think it is an interesting topic. Beetles4life (talk) 04:01, 12 April 2024 (UTC)