User talk:Xianying Yu/sandbox

Hi! My name is Aria and I'm in your marine bio class. I took a look at your article and I have some suggestions. Feel free to them or leave them. 1) "It is first portrayed by Marianne Nyegaard, an marine scientist who study ocean sunfish for her PhD." I don't know what you mean by portrayed. Was she the first one to publish a scientific article about the fish? If so, what factors did she study? 2) Including feet when you talk about the maximum length of the fish would be helpful for metric system noobs like me 3) I like that you included recent news. Is there anyway you could link the article or, if not, then say who published it so it is easy for others to search?--Marinemaster (talk) 16:43, 26 March 2019 (UTC)

Feedback from Wiki Education

Hi Xianying Yu I see that a classmate of yours left you feedback above. I'll leave you additional comments.

• For scientific names, the genus is always capitalized but the species name is never capitalized. Therefore, it should be Mola tecta or M. tecta at each occurrence
  • the same goes for other sunfish species you talk about
• It is first identified and portrayed by Marianne Nyegaard, an marine scientist who study ocean sunfish for her PhD what I think you mean here was "It was first described by Marianne Nyegaard..."
• Watch your verb tense
  • Mola Mola is the most common known ocean sunfish and is was found in 1758
  • Mola Alexandrini (also called Mola Ramsayi) is was found 81 years afterward
• also watch your word choice. Species are often discovered years before they are described, which has a very specific meaning in the scientific world. Based on the dates you are using, the word you want to use here is "described" instead of "found"

Got it. Thank you so much for your feedback! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xianying Yu (talk • contribs) 02:10, 28 March 2019 (UTC)