Talk:Hogna carolinensis/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MeegsC (talk · contribs) 12:58, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

I'm happy to review this one. It may take me several days to get my first comments up. MeegsC (talk) 12:58, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Hi Shaynarosenbloom. Given that this appears to have been a class project, I'll post a few initial comments to make sure you are still planning to work on the article. Please strike out these issues once you've had the chance to fix them. I've got this page on my watchlist, but feel free to ping me if you have any questions.

• The lede should summarize the major points of the article. This one doesn't appear to do that, and should be expanded accordingly.
• Take a look at redback spider, one of Wikipedia's FA-level articles, or the recently-promoted Pholcus phalangioides. I'd suggest that you structure this article similarly — i.e. with a taxonomy section to start, followed by description, behaviors, distribution and habitat, etc. You obviously won't need all of those sections (this spider, for instance, isn't seriously venomous, so you don't need a huge section about venom, and it's probably not as culturally important as that one is), but it would be good to be consistent where possible with other spider articles.
• All measurements should be in imperial as well as metric units. The {{convert}} template is a great one to use here. Ping me if you're not sure how to use it.
• Fully spell out the genus name anywhere that it starts a sentence: e.g. "Hogna carolinensis is able to thermoregulate quite well." rather than "H. carolinensis is able to thermoregulate quite well."
  • The convention in biology articles seems to be that the first occurrence in a section is spelt out in full, but abbreviations can be used elsewhere. Also the convention is to put   between the "." and the species name in the wikitext, e.g. "H. carolinensis", to avoid ending a line with something like "H." Peter coxhead (talk) 10:52, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
• Species names should be sentence-cased per Wikipedia's Manual of Style. That means Texas banded gecko instead of Texas Banded Gecko.
• Calcium should not be capitalized in the section about bites.
• What makes "Spider Identifications" a reliable source?
• None of the links to the Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society articles are working. They appear to have moved their PDFs.

Once you've indicated that you're willing to make the necessary improvements, I'll continue with my review. MeegsC (talk) 13:28, 14 March 2021 (UTC)

Given that there has been no response here, and that the nominator hasn't edited since 23 December (presumably when their class ended), I'm marking this nomination as unsuccessful and closing this review. Shaynarosenbloom, if you decide to return and work on this, I'm happy to review it again in the future. MeegsC (talk) 17:04, 22 March 2021 (UTC)