Talk:Rivacindela hudsoni

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Help on article

Hello, I am a university student and I am new to wikipedia editing. If another editor has time to review the images I have added and the amount of hyperlinking I have included I would be grateful! Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anastasia.sck (talk • contribs) 05:25, 24 May 2021 (UTC)

Overall Article

The entry includes a behavior section but it doesn’t talk about larval or adult sociality and how they interact within or between the groups which would enhance this section. I would be curious to learn about how they interact or communicate with one another. Overall, it looks great! However, I notice that there are two sections with missing article. I believe that you will add to it soon. Great ratio of hyperlinking in your article! Potatono (talk)

Thank you very much! Yes, those sections are most definitely on their way. Anastasia.sck (talk) 03:09, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Suggestions

Fantastic work on this! Here is a handful of things I noticed when reading the article.

1. Most occurrences of "the Rivacindela hudsoni" would read better without the definite article "the" when writing about the species generally. E.g. "The first life stage of the Rivacindela hudsoni is its egg form." An exception would be where a particular set of individuals are studied, like "the R. hudsoni were observed".
2. In some sections, "Rivacindela hudsoni" is repeated a fair bit. Consider substituting "R. hudsoni" or a phrase like "the beetle", "the larva" or even a pronoun. It's hard to see the patterns when you're the original author, so it's fine to leave them for a fresh pair of eyes to tweak. E.g.:
   • "Like all insects, the Rivacindela hudsoni has three tagmata in its adult form."
   • "Like all insects, R. hudsoni has three tagmata in its adult form."
   • "Like all insects, the beetle has three tagmata in its adult form."
   • "Like all insects, the adult form has three tagmata."
   • "Like all insects, its adult form has three tagmata."
3. In some sections (e.g. Thermoregulation, Reproduction), the references seem to be about other species or about tiger beetles in general. If you're inferring characteristics or behaviour from related species, then this should be stated explicitly.
4. Wikipedia biology articles tend to use headings Description, Distribution, Habitat. But if I stumbled across an article that correctly uses more technical and precise terms such as Morphology, Faunistics, I wouldn't go out of my way to change it. Vive le difference.
5. Naked, directly-formatted citations are allowed, but consider the option of using {{tl|Citation}}-series templates like {{tl|Cite journal}}. The extra structure they add could be useful for machine extraction of citations from Wikipedia.

Kind regards, Pelagic ( messages ) – (07:09 Thu 27, AEST) 21:09, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I'll definitely work on addressing this, much appreciated :)Anastasia.sck (talk) 00:44, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

The entry includes a behavior section but it doesn’t talk about larval or adult sociality and how they interact within or between the groups which would enhance this section. I would be curious to learn about how they interact or communicate with one another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anushkav18 (talk • contribs) 07:33, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

Chri Ye (talk) 04:04, 16 February 2024 (UTC) The information about food resources should be included in this entry since it provides important information for experimental design when researchers need to feed Tiger beetles.

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2024

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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: rejected by reviewer, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 14:39, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that the fastest Rivacindela hudsoni can run at a speed of 5.6 miles per hour (9.0 km/h)? Source: https://bugsinourbackyard.org/tiger-beetles-the-quick-and-the-dead/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20one%20Australian%20species,at%20720%20mph%20(2)!
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Created by M.l.xu (talk). Self-nominated at 05:45, 1 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Rivacindela hudsoni; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• To be eligible for inclusion at DYK an article needs to be new or expanded fivefold (5x) or recently promoted to Good Article status. The recent addition to the article increased the "readable prose" from 11 kB to 20 kB. gobonobo ^{+ c} 16:58, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

• Thank you for working on this article M.l.xu. Sadly, it doesn't meet the criteria for DYK right now, but if you ever get it up to GA status, it will be eligible and can be renominated. gobonobo ^{+ c} 19:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer Review

Hi! I really enjoyed reading this article. I thought the hook in the introduction paragraph about this species being the fastest running insect was very effective! I particularly enjoyed the "Feeding", "Flightlessness", and "Larval Hunting" subsections! Overall, here are some of my suggestions for the article:

1. There are many citations missing throughout this article. I noted the following have missing citations: The end of the "Geographic Distribution" section, the entire "Biology" subsection, the last two sentences in the "Larva" subsection, the last sentence in the "Feeding" subsection, the last three sentences in the "Predation" subsection, and most of the "Flightlessness" subsection.
2. This article could use a few more images. The "Appearance" section in particular would benefit the most from an image, but the "Geographic Distribution" section would also benefit from a map of some sort.

And here a brief description of the edits I have made:

1. In the "Geographic Distribution" section, I changed "biodiverse indicators" to "biodiversity indicators".
2. I renamed the "Faunistics" section "Habitat" and moved to directly after the "Geographic Distribution" section.
3. I moved the "Larva diet" subsection to the "Laval Hunting" subsection.

Great job on the article! E.a.eslinger (talk) 18:58, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

This article looks great! I made a few spelling modifications, and replaced a few words with synonyms that sounded more professional. I think some more information could be added to this article. For example, why these beetles are called tiger beetles? If I had to guess, it would be due to their aggressive behavior and fast speed that you mentioned, though this should be verified from a different source. Also, is the fast speed an adaptive trait? And finally, if it's so widespread, does it have environmental significance, and if so, should population management be controlled for? These are just some ideas for information that could be added, but otherwise, I think the article is great! Marbleparade (talk) 23:23, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

I edited a few things in this article. There was a lot of organizational issues that made it a bit harder to read. I reorganized them to remove redundancies and make it flow better. A lot of things had their own section when they could be simplified in far fewer. Furthermore, I edited some grammatical/spelling/punctuation issues. I also added a “Running” section to highlight how this beetle is so fast. Beetles4life (talk) 04:58, 22 March 2024 (UTC)