Talk:White worm beetle

Feedback for Wikipedia assignment

I'm a student at WashU, and as part of the Behavioral Ecology 2024 Wiki Education Assignment, I wanted to give you some feedback on the Wikipedia page. I've sent in a google document with edits regarding this article to the Wiki assignment, but overall my suggestions centered around how to potentially make the page better, mainly focusing on the flow of the article. Overall, it was very informative and well-written, and I enjoyed learning about the beetle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mikakipnisuser (talk • contribs) 04:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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): Frenchfrylvr (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Frenchfrylvr (talk) 02:40, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Feedback from New Page Review process

I'm a student apart of the Behavioral Ecology 2024 Wiki Education assignment. I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers: Overall great article - well written and thorough! Added links to other Wiki pages, and made some edits for grammar and the overall flow of the article. I also moved around/added sections to help with the flow of the article. I also added the class page. Some sentences need references in sections: description, habitat, food resources, and reproduction.Bomapoodle (talk) 20:55, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer review

Great job! I made a few changes but overall this is well written. The description section could use more citations—even if all the information is from one source, I think it could help to add this source at least to the end of each paragraph. The reproduction section needs a source, and could be elaborated on as well. There was some repetition of information that I fixed, especially in the distribution and habitat sections. I think you covered a wide breadth of topics which made this pretty comprehensive. Esacchetti (talk) 21:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Peer Review

I changed a lot of the wording in this article to make the tone a bit more neutral and scholarly. I think the second paragraph in the Larvae subsection should be reviewed, I don't think third instar larva would hatch from eggs. The Enemies section should also be reviewed, it seems to be more about the ibis then the beetle, particularly because the second paragraph talks about a different beetle then the white worm beetle. The remainder of the article is very high quality, though I would suggest finding and citing some of the in text citations, for example (Gonsalez et. al., 2015). I couldn't find these online and I'm sure people would appreciate links for easier access. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommytrope (talk • contribs) 17:01, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Peer review

It was fun to read your article again for the second round of peer review! One suggestion I have is to add more citations (for example there is an uncited paragraph in the Habitat section). In the Sexual dimorphism section, there's a reference to at study by Ruther but I cannot find this in the citation list. I would suggest using Wikipedia's citation system for this sentence rather than having the author's name written out. The same goes for the references to Gonsalez (2015), Vieira and Rozas (2011), Missbach (2014), Vogt (2015), Brand (2018) in the Physiology section. I think the Physiology section could be adjusted to focus more on direct conclusions of studies rather than the experimental details. I also re-arranged sections (moving information on food resources and mating out of life history into appropriate sections, adding some new sub-sections). Overall, this was well written and you did a great job choosing photos! Esacchetti (talk) 18:21, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

Peer Review

Great job! This article was thoroughly researched and very informative, especially about the beetle's physiology and chemoreception. I expanded the lead section because it originally included very few specific details about the beetle, so someone visiting the page would not benefit much from just reading the lead section. I added a short description of the appearance to help with the initial identification of the beetle as well as some information about their mating behavior. I also added information about this beetle as an agricultural pest, as this probably contributes the most to their importance. MichelleLi455 (talk) 18:26, 11 April 2024 (UTC)