Talk:Bugula neritina/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) 10:10, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Comments

This short article on a single species shows promise but needs work to get up to GA standard. The article was basically a stub until recent expansion, and the additions are somewhat haphazard. I'm happy to help shepherd the article through the process if you're happy to work that way.

• The "Bryostatins" section is way too prominent, and too high up the article. I suggest you create a new section "Interactions with humans" (or similar title), and give it subsections "Biofouling", "Drug discovery" (or similar), and "Invasive species". You can then move the relevant paragraphs into those subsections.

• The large scattered images that stray across section boundaries make the article look at best untidy. I suggest you put the "Lophophores" image and the "Bugula neritina" image in a small gallery.

• The remaining materials (not about "Interaction with humans") can go in a section called "Biology" (or similar). I suggest you create subsections named "Description", "Phylogeny", and "Ecology", and reorganise all the materials into those places.

• The article has no lead (summary, introduction) at the top. You should write this (without repeating or adding citations) when you have completed the rest of the text, simply by summarizing the article body.

• "This adds to the growing number of genomes on the total list of sequenced animal genomes." --- says nothing relevant and is uncited; suggest you remove it, unless the sequence has revealed something worth discussing, in which case please discuss and cite it.

• The whole text needs to be copy-edited by a native English speaker. I believe you can ask for this at WP:GOCE, but I suggest you don't do that until the article has been reorganized.

Images

• The images are all on Commons and appear to be properly licensed.

Sources

• Nearly all the text is reliably cited.

• Ref [13] "Os Animais de Nossas Prais" is missing its title= ("Bryozoa"), language=, and trans-title= parameters.

• It would be desirable to format all the references the same way.

• I am not sure why Linnaeus 1758 is listed after the references. Probably just remove it.

• Refs [19][3] need to be moved after "...polluted environments" and swapped over (to [3][19]).

Summary

This article needs work. Please feel free to ask for any clarification or suggestions as you go along. Let me know when you'd like me to check it over again. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:28, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for your review, this article was a project from my University to do a research about a not very known species, I did it with a group of people. Now i am going into vacation but after that i can do these changes and try again. André Ribeiro Cardoso (talk) 11:36, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

OK, let me know when you're back. Chiswick Chap (talk) 12:10, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

I tried to do a little work today and did almost all the changes needed. However, i could not put the two images in a small gallery and get it to look visually pleasant, so i removed one of them and now it only has lophophores of bugula neritina but smaller. Also, in the interactions with humans section i could not put a lot of things in the invasive species topic because in my point of view this is tied to the distribution topic and if i put information in one i will have to remove from the other. I still do not know a lot about formatting the references but i can improve it in the future (i corrected Ref "os animais de nossas praias").

Overall, thank you again for the review and let me know if there are any more improvements to make. André Ribeiro Cardoso (talk) 18:11, 15 July 2023 (UTC)

Many thanks for prompt action in the holiday season. The article is much improved, and of course you are free to go on working on it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:29, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.