Talk:Mexican burrowing toad

User:Cow monkey111 has recently created RawData:Mexican Burrowing Toad, a page that contains information to supplement the current article. Would anyone mind taking a look and merging it to the main article? Thanks, Sango123 (talk) 23:35, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Worth noting, which I happened to just stumble upon: Mexican Burrowing Toad.--C.Logan (talk) 22:33, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

 how does this thinq act toward ppl ??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.153.118.44 (talk) 17:47, 1 December 2011 (UTC) 

It doesn’t normally interact with people (and should be left alone), but if handled it is very slow and clumsy. Barrett ok (talk) 05:54, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

About the Lead Image

This is a juvenile. I prefer the adult stage of the Mexican burrowing toad. I wonder if somebody could find that image of the adult. Esagurton (talk) 11:18, 3 February 2018 (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): Mashal Naqvi (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Luiscville, Anikavarsani, Jumping frog princess.

— Assignment last updated by Eurquhart02 (talk) 23:16, 10 November 2022 (UTC)

I expanded on a previous peer reviewer's work and changed the heading types to make them independent sections, and removed the "ecology and natural history" heading which was vague and encompassed many independent ideas. The evolutionary independence section was a direct quotation from a submission made on EDGE. While I believe the authorship was somewhat identified (without using quotation marks), I went ahead and rewrote that section in my own words, using the EDGE submission as a reference. Luiscville (talk) 05:59, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Page Edits

I am working on this page for a class assignment. I added more information to the lead section, added sections for Feeding Specializations, Habitat and Distribution, Conservation, Phylogeny, Diet, Reproduction and Mating Patterns, and Life Cycle. I added more sources to the existing sections as well.Mashal Naqvi (talk) 23:44, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

Overall the article is very well written, however there were some inconstancies in the naming of the frog. The author switched between scientific and conventional names, for clarity, I edited all instances I found of scientific name usage to conventional naming. I also made some minor changes to overall structure. I separated the Reproduction and Mating heading into two different headings and formed a 'Reproduction and Life Cycle' heading as per Wikipedia suggestion. In order to achieve 'good article' status, consider adding more detailed information to the sections, while they are well written, they are fairly simplistic for having 27 citations. Anikavarsani (talk) 12:37, 13 November 2022 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Edit

This is a very well-written article and very aesthetically pleasing with many images to go along with the text. One flaw that I noticed with this article is that while the text was high quality and well written, it was organized poorly, with information not under correct headers. At the beginning of the article, there was one large paragraph with information about reproduction, distribution and habitat, and description. I took the different information from this one large paragraph and put it in under the header that it corresponded with, which made the information much more organized and easy to locate. I also moved the “Phylogeny” and “Evolutionary Independence” sections to the top of the article to provide an introduction to the Mexican Burrowing Toad, as there was not introduction for this article. I also moved some of the sections around to make the article as a whole flow better, and grouped similar sections together to organize information. Jumpingfrogprincess (talk) 06:49, 20 November 2022 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jumping frog princess (talk • contribs)

There were three short paragraphs in the lead section that summarized several points from of the article, not one large paragraph.

I agree that the recent contributions made by Mashal Naqui (Nov. 9) were significant and introduced lots of good information with quality references.

One issue among several that I was trying to reconcile was the lead section. The introduction of a Wikipedia article should briefly summarize the most important information from the article that follows. It is desirable to have the contents under each heading (description, habitat, behavior, diet, reproduction and life cycle, and conservation) quickly reviewed and summed up in the lead, with more in-depth and detailed information under each heading with the references (Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section). WiLaFa (talk) 06:09, 21 November 2022 (UTC)