Talk:Escherichia coli/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Adam Cuerden (talk · contribs) 15:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC) A pretty good start, there are, however, a few minor points to clear up.

1. The lead is a very good brief scientific description. However, Wikipedia is meant to be a general encyclopedia, so it would be a good idea to first give a simple description for non-biologists. A sentence or two would suffice, I think.  Done
2. The article is a little on the hard side. I've studied biology, and, while I didn't focus on microbiology, I did take a couple classes. I still had to check links to find out what "peritrichous" and to remind myself what "enteric" meant. As such, I think the article could stand to define terms a bit more.

Can you please mention them.

Eh, I waive the point. I was eyeing "Gram-negative" and "faculatively anaerobic", but that's so basic to microbiology that maybe it's not worth it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:15, 27 February 2014 (UTC) Done

1. "Escherichia coli is a species." ...Is there any point to this sentence? If you get that far into the article without picking up that information.... Done
2. The phylogeny chart could use more introduction, and explaining of the different groups labelled on it.

As I am not a student of biology, I have very little information about it. I will ask a microbiologist editor.RRD13 (talk) 08:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Much information has been provided. Anymore will make it overdetailed. RRD13 (talk) 14:00, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

1. "Bacterium coli was the type species of the now invalid genus Bacterium when it was revealed that the former type species ("Bacterium triloculare") was missing." - What, exactly, happened here? Did they lose the sample? Did the species become extinct? I'm only really familiar with type species for larger organisms, admittedly, but this seems to call for a little more elucidation.

It was reclassified. RRD13 (talk) 13:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)

Can you please tell me where it is.RRD13 (talk) 08:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

• • • That is in "History" Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 08:15, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

On the whole, this article is pretty good. I'm going to guess that it's only been worked on by microbiologists, though, as it could use a little work to make it more useful for general readers (while keeping all the information, just starting from a step further back, as it were). Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Right. Looking it over again... Promoted. It will likely need a copyedit before FA, though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 03:12, 10 March 2014 (UTC)