Talk:Envirothon
Overhaul
I'm going to be overhauling the entire page over the next few weeks, hopefully, because this is a rather sad-looking article. Anyone (haha, like there's anyone here) object? Envirothon is too awesome for this participant to let the page sit like this. --PrescitedEntity (talk) 18:17, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
2012 Upcoming Envirothon Article Contributions
Sources To Be Used
The following sources will be used within the next two months to improve this article:
General, Current Envirothon updates and information: http://www.envirothon.org/
History of Envirothon: http://www.envirothon.org/pdf/history.pdf
Information on "The Envirothon Experience" and Learning Objectives: http://www.cfanb.ca/envirothon_nb
Envirothon Components and Benefits: http://www.canadianforestry.com/html/education/envirothon_e.html
Upcoming Competition: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/montana_state_university/article_1e391598-11ce-11e2-a7f7-0019bb2963f4.html
Upcoming Competition: http://www.roundupweb.com/story/2012/09/26/news/montana-to-host-north-americas-largest-high-school-natural-resource-competition/1316.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by SalaRollins (talk • contribs) 03:42, 11 October 2012 (UTC)
Peer Review
Hi SalaRollins, you've written a very informative, well researched, and easy to read article. Upon reviewing the article history, I noticed that you've made some serious edits to the article and have added the new sections "competition topics" and "results". Your new edits have helped to make this a more well-rounded and informative article. Your sources are reputable and clearly cited, helping to make your article a more reliable source of information. I like how you have included a list of competition topics at the bottom of your article-it really gives the reader an even larger sense of what goes on at the envirothon. I have a few suggestions on how you could improve your article:
·Perhaps under the "external links" section you could include a link to a video from youtube or another video site, showing the envirothon in action.
·Awkward sentence structure, "Currently, forty-four U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces for a collective of over 500,000 students participate in the competition." Reword something like this: "Currently, 500,000 students from forty-four U.S. states and nine Canadian provinces participate in the competition." Also I the "but also includes" in this sentence seems out of place: "Competition participants are generally composed of teams sponsored by school clubs or classes, but also includes teams sponsored by 4H and other such non-scholastic organizations, home-schoolers can also take part as their own team."
Other than those two suggestions, I believe that you have a very strong and well-organized article, great job! Anthro100 (talk) 23:00, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
-Also, you may want to upload a photo to your article. Anthro100 (talk) 15:05, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
Peer Review Acknowledgement
Thank you for the suggestions! There is only one section I did not edit, which happens to be the "history" section! I will most certainly take your advice, and the final update will be made by Friday, November 16, 2012. As for pictures, I am still awaiting permission from the picture owners to use the two photos I would like to contribute to the article, so those will hopefully be added within the next couple of weeks.
Thanks again. SalaRollins November 15, 2012
Peer Review
Hello SalaRollins,
I feel you have greatly contributed to the Wiki-World and have created a very informative, concise, and practical article for others to benefit from. In being the second person to peer-review this article I did not notice any grammatical errors or punctuation issues. However, in regards to formatting, I do think that breaking the "Competition Topics" material into subheadings and then bulleted information would allow it to be more clear and easy to read. As we discussed, I feel that the "History" section is in an appropriate place in the article as I find it to be 'extra information' for the reader. In regards to linking other Wikipedia articles, I found that you included a sufficient amount of links to ensure the reader can be informed on other topics that aren't explained or needed in your article. I did however link 'morphology' to another Wikipedia article for you. Just in case.
All in all, great work SalaRollins and I agree with the above statement that a video could be added to external links of the Envirothon in action. It could add a more contemporary and visual aspect to this already great article. P.S. I love the table you made. Very informative. Caboothby (talk) 16:13, 20 November 2012 (UTC)caboothby