Talk:Alpine salamander

Is it accurate, to talk about pregnancy, in an ovoviviparous animal? --81.39.169.3 21:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

The link to Arie van der Meijden (1999-12-30). "AmphibiaWeb: Salamandra atra". apparently no longer works. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex Schröder (talk • contribs) 14:42, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2022

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Gracedekoker (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Qinan123, Turturenhydra, Eregwustl.

— Assignment last updated by Eurquhart02 (talk) 23:20, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer review:

Overall this article has amazing organization and covers a good amount of information under each section and subsection. The writing is also very clear, and the sections are really organized and easy to read. The amount of writing in each heading and subsection was also very good, with them not being too long or too short. The only one that could be divided up more would be the “gestation and reproduction” heading, but I could not figure out how to do so since I did not do the research on this animal.

There are a lot of references in the article citing great facts, and I think the article is very reliable since multiple sources with the same findings are cited throughout. Overall great job! Eregwustl (talk) 01:27, 21 November 2022 (UTC)

11/13 Updates

Hello! I added a little over 1900 words to this article, completely adding in new sections about the toxicity, immunobiology, distribution, pigmentation, mating, male-male interactions, behavior, habitat, territoriality, and conservation. There was great content here before, but a lot of it was not cited, so I had to search for citations and then rephrase and properly cite. I also was not able to find any free and uncopyrighted images, but I continue to be on the lookout and may consider emailing some of the authors of the sources to obtain their figures or photographs. Lastly, I reordered the page to make a bit more sense in line with Wikipedia's article practices. Thank you!

Gracedekoker (talk) 04:40, 14 November 2022 (UTC)gracedekoker

Peer Review

This was a well written article and I think that all sections were written well and all categories were placed in the proper locations matching the Wikipedia outlines. The only issue I had was that there were some small grammatical errors such as forgetting some commas, spaces, or capitalization. Overall really good work. --Qinan123 (talk) 02:47, 17 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

This is a well-written article. It has diverse topics of information and explains the animal comprehensively.

I revised the entry by reordering and recombining sections on the Wikipedia page. In the previous list of contents, the Behavior section had a lot of subsections. I thought the section titles could be more specific, and some of the subsections could be recategorized. In the reordering and recombining process, I utilized the Wikipedia Outline provided by the course.

The previous list of contents was: 1. Description; 1.1 Coloration; 2. Taxonomy and Subspecies; 3. Distribution; 4. Behavior; 4.1 Habitat and Environmental Preferences; 4.2 Territoriality; 4.3 Male-Male Behavior; 4.4 Diet; 4.5 Mating; 4.6 Gestation and Reproduction; 5. Physiology; 5.1 Glands and Toxins; 5.2 Immunobiology and Protection; 6. Conservation; 7. References; 8. External Links.

The current list of contents (after my revision) is: 1. Description; 1.1 Coloration; 2. Taxonomy and Subspecies; 3. Habitat and Distribution; 3.1 Habitat; 3.2 Geographic Distribution; 4. Territoriality; 5. Diet; 6. Mating; 6.1 Mating Pattern; 6.2 Male-Male Behavior; 7. Gestation and Reproduction; 8. Physiology; 8.1 Glands and Toxins; 8.2 Immunobiology and Protection; 9. Conservation; 10. References; 11. External Links.

I also deleted () at the end of a sentence in the Diet Section. I think it was a typo.

I added a sentence in the Diet section: “Such preference indicates a dimensional selectivity, in which the energy intake of prey consumption is maximized.” I also cited the sentence with the source that was already in the references: https://doi.org/10.3390/d12050202.

One suggestion to improve the Wikipedia page would be adding information about Female-Male Behavior as a subsection of Mating section.

Turturenhydra (talk) 07:35, 19 November 2022 (UTC)