Talk:Leptothorax acervorum

Wikiproject

Hi all, I'm currently working on this page for a school project. Please don't add or change anything for the time being! Thanks. Alexliu818 (talk) 05:08, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Peer Review

Super awesome that you created a new wikipage! I thought your article was super informative and well-written. I didn't do too much. Besides creating a new header, "Oophagy", I made some grammar edits and changed around the wording of a number of sentences to make them clearer. I would be careful with passive voice. I also added some hyperlinks to other wikipages.

Could you further explain the significance of: 'It was actually observed that one queen interrupted an egg-eating queen and removed the egg to eat it herself'? Also, I found the last paragraph on seasonal fluctuations and the fluidity between monogamy and polygamy a bit confusing. If you could expand on is that would be super helpful as well. Katheefwah (talk) 07:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Great page overall. I actually had no grammar or syntax changes to make with it. My suggestion to make this page better is with non-behavior related things. I would add some more pictures and some more general information. You put in a lot of good specifics that give readers some ideas about this ant, but if the research is available, you should add really general things. Even adding a phylogeny section, interactions with humans, culture contexts for the ants -- all this would be really helpful. You did a great job covering the behaviors though. Katims90 (talk) 18:52, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Kudos for making a brand new wiki entry. Clearly, however, the page still needs a few tweaks here and there to make it more complete and fluid. As of now, I have added a new heading and have modified some style while adding wiki links to words within the entry. The headings still need to be reformatted however to better convey the hierarchy of data that the entry contains. Other than that, keep on doing what you're doing. Was it you who made the other new article for the class? TKYung (talk) 05:21, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Very interesting and well-written article. I would be interested in knowing about L. acervorum's diet as a means of understanding their niche a little better. Understanding their diet could also give insight into other organisms with which L. acervorum competes for resources. I'd also be interested to know the mechanism by which they build their nests, which could give insight into the hierarchical structures of the colony. And finally, what is the mechanism of kin recognition? With multiple queens practicing oophagy, how are the queens certain which eggs and which offspring are theirs? Mpmaz (talk) 03:27, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Leptothorax acervorum/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 10:55, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

Hi there- I'm going to be the good article reviewer for this article. I'll be assessing it in relation to the good article criteria, pointing out areas for improvement and making small fixes myself. My initial comments will follow shortly. J Milburn (talk) 10:55, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

• While the article is strong on the use of this ant species in research, it's not so strong on the standard features of the species; in addition to an ecology section, I'd want to see a description section (physical characteristics of the species), a taxonomy section (detailing the taxonomic history of the species, and any research into/speculation concern its phylogentic relationships) and a distribution section. Details on habitat are also important- this could go into the distribution section or ecology section as appropriate.
• Currently, there are distribution and appearance details in the lead, but nowhere else. Ideally, the lead should summarise what is said elsewhere in the article. This means that references will often not be required in the lead (although there's no rule banning them!) as the lead will only repeat what is elsewhere in the article.
• We seem to be a bit short of example articles on insect species, so I have knocked up an example of how this article might be structured here, based on how other biology articles would typically be structured.
• I'm not sure about this source- is it definitely reliable?

The sources seem appropriate for the most part, the writing is good and the image is excellent. There are some other niggles, but they can be ironed out once the above issues have been resolved. If I can be of any help, you can reply here or contact me on my user talk page. J Milburn (talk) 11:23, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

As there has been no activity in over a month, I am going to close this review at this time. J Milburn (talk) 17:32, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Needed

This sort of goes with the good article review.

This article needs an introduction, giving a brief highlight of the species.

The morphology (formerly description) section should be much more detailed. THis section should also not contain information about the colony. Colony structure should be its own section.

It needs a taxonomy section, including the history of the species naming. The distribution section should be expanded.

Also, the size variance section shouldn't be stand alone.

More photos should be added throughout.

--Cobiorower (talk) 18:32, 16 December 2012 (UTC)cobiorower

This is a post following Pocketkings' enquiry on J Milburn's talk page. The above comments plus the GA review comments are still valid. For a comparison on layout etc. I have been working on Redback spider if that is any help. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 07:05, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Hi everyone- I'm going to add this to my watchlist and will try to be along to offer some thoughts in a few weeks, but, sadly, I've got very little internet access at the moment, so I can't give this the attention it deserves. Thanks, J Milburn (talk) 10:00, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Morphology Section and Lead

In order to get this article to "good article" status, I expanded the morphology section, and also put the size variance section as a subsection to morphology. I also expanded the lead to include information about morphology and size varaince. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LibbyWard (talk • contribs) 20:53, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Distribution Section, Additional Images and Lead

I, along with two other Washington University in St. Louis undergraduate students, are working together to revise and upgrade the quality of this article to Good Article status. After a careful review of Good Article Reviewer, J. Millburn's comments, we divided up the tasks that he suggested. I expanded the information on the distribution (geographical range and habitat) of L. acervorum, added three more images to increase the readability of the article, and modified the lead to cater to the addition of my team's additions to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gschalet (talk • contribs) 02:02, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

Taxonomy and Morphology

With the two authors above, LibbyWard and Gschalet, we tried to get this article to 'good article.' Taking advice from the needed section, we each improved upon this article. I added a section on taxonomy, citations and added three subsections to the morphology section.

In the citations/references section, the [collinwood] reference is listed multiple times. Is there a way to remove most of them and only have one citation? Thanks.

--Pocketkings (talk) 19:10, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

You can merge them by using named footnotes like I did in this edit. See WP:NAMEDREFERENCES. jonkerz ♠talk 19:34, 27 September 2013 (UTC)

GA renomination

Thinking about renominating this article. I'll do some work on it, but it seems to be complete anyway. I'll update the references or fix them up, seeing they are not in the best state. Might send in a peer review for feedback and because I'm not familiar with this ant. Burklemore1 (talk) 07:53, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment

This article was the subject of an educational assignment at Washington University supported by the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2012 Fall term. Further details are available on the course page.

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