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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:55, 20 September 2022 (UTC)

Choosing an article

Hi Lorena, By now you should have some potential topics for the Wikipedia article you'd like to work on. Please check out the associated exercise (https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training/students/choose-topic-exercise) and fill out the template on your user page (https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/redirect/sandbox/Choose_an_Article?veaction=edit&preload=Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org_choose_article) beanstash (talk) 13:23, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Peer review -- Lucy T

• The title says “wallace line” but is referred to as “wallace’s line” in the first sentence, so make sure the two are consistent with each other
• The second sentence says “shown in grey” but there is no figure directly below the paragraph
• The 1st sentence of the second paragraph is a run-on. Separate it into 2 separate sentences.
• Delete the word “found” in the 2nd to last sentence of paragraph 2
• Lead section contains relevant info and gives a good general description of the topic
• Under “historical context”, where in the original drawing of the line referred to at the start of the section?
• Make sure you put a space after every period!
• “throughout” instead of “through” in the 1st sentence of the last paragraph in the Historical Context section
• I liked the mention of all the different scientists in the Historical Context section! It created a clear and chronological structure for the section.
• “remained” instead of “were maintained” in the 2nd to last sentence of the Biogeography section
• “colonization” instead of “colonizations” in the 2nd to last sentence of the Zoogeography section
• Information is presented well/clearly in the Zoogeography section
• Add diagrams and figures (especially the ones you refer to in the article)!!

Lucienne.t (talk) 17:07, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

a few comments

This is really nicely written. A few brief comments and suggestions: In the historical context section, the first paragraph is quite long I think. I would suggest splitting it into two -- perhaps at "The proposal of the line, however, was not the main objective of Wallace’s endeavors"

"had ancestral colonizers that disappeared from the Lombok Strait" -- i'm not entirely sure I understand what "had" is supposed to mean here? Consider rewording.

in Zoogeography, "although their occurrence is derived from more recent colonization events" -- the antecedent of "their" isn't really clear here.

And in connection with the plants: "since their colonizations events differ" -- this is a bit wishy washy. How do their colonization events differ? beanstash (talk) 03:56, 3 December 2022 (UTC)