Talk:Euwallacea interjectus

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): Bomapoodle (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Justinxuje (talk) 21:07, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Revisions

Very well written and interesting article. I made a couple of revisions, first regarding the labeling of units of measurement when describing the size of the beetle. I changed all units of measurement to their abbreviated form for consistency. I also noticed a fact primarily about mating in the males vs. females size description, so I moved it to the “Mating” section. I also removed all hyperlinks from articles that did not exist on Wikipedia. I deleted the “and behavior” portion from the “diet and behavior” section and moved the “relationship with fungi” subsection to the “relationship with the environment” section. I felt that those were two completely different topics that needed to be separated.Croujay — Preceding unsigned comment added by Croujay (talk • contribs) 01:30, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by PrimalMustelid talk 02:52, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that E. interjectus is one of the only beetle species to use an alive/healthy tree as their host? Source: Carrillo, Joseph D.; Rugman-Jones, Paul F.; Husein, Deena; Stajich, Jason E.; Kasson, Matt T.; Carrillo, Daniel; Stouthamer, Richard; Eskalen, Akif (2019-12-01). "Members of the Euwallacea fornicatus species complex exhibit promiscuous mutualism with ambrosia fungi in Taiwan". Fungal Genetics and Biology. 133: 103269. doi:10.1016/j.fgb.2019.103269. ISSN 1087-1845. PMID 31518652.
  • ALT1: ... that in a colony of E. interjectus, for every 31 females there is one male, and that each female can start its own colony? Source: Jiang, Zi-Ru; Masuya, Hayato; Kajimura, Hisashi (2021-09-28). "Novel Symbiotic Association Between Euwallacea Ambrosia Beetle and Fusarium Fungus on Fig Trees in Japan". Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.725210. ISSN 1664-302X. PMC 8506114. PMID 34650529.
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5x expanded by Bomapoodle (talk). Self-nominated at 13:25, 1 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Euwallacea interjectus; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• @Bomapoodle: New enough and large enough expansion. Nominator is QPQ-exempt. The hook fact seems to be covered by Similarly, Euwallacea spp. can attack and inoculate their plant pathogenic mutualists into healthy and declining trees (let me know if I am wrong). The main issue with this nomination and multiple others from your class at WashU is that there are multiple uncited statements. All statements outside the lead section need to be covered by an inline citation. This must be fixed for the nomination to continue. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 03:52, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
  • @SammiBrie: Hi Sammi! Thank you for looking over the article and for the feedback. I just updated the citations. The hook fact that you wrote is correct! The one about the female to male ratio that I wrote was specific to E. interjectus but I'd be totally ok with it being broadend to what you wrote. Thank you!Bomapoodle (talk) 04:20, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
    • @Bomapoodle: Thanks! (By the way, I did not get the ping—my username has a space in it, "Sammi Brie".) Both hook facts are ready to go. We are almost there, but I'd like to challenge you to take the long quotes from sources and say them in our own words. Once that's done, I think I can approve this. Ping me here. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:59, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

@Sammi Brie: I just paraphrased those longer quotes. Thanks again for your help and please let me know if there is anything that I can do!Bomapoodle (talk) 19:33, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

• @Bomapoodle: We're good! Please tell your classmates to check for replies—many have not, and they have outstanding issues. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:56, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Peer Review

I really enjoyed this article, and I think it was really well organized. I changed a few of the headings to make them more compact/ flow better. I also added a few images because I think visuals are really important to keep readers engaged, especially on Wikipedia. My only other suggestion would be to add more information to the section about Euwallacea validus because I wasn't sure how this description of another species of beetle fit into the article. I can see how adding more specific compare/ contrast details between the two species could be useful to develop the description of your beetle, but if that is not a possibility, I would recommend cutting this section because I think it distracts from your species of beetle. Overall, I think you did a great job! Geluck.t (talk) 17:21, 24 April 2024 (UTC)