Talk:Larinia jeskovi

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 September 2020 and 17 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Davidcho122.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 23:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Edits from a Behavioral Ecology student

Hi! This is a very well-written and well-organized entry! I found all the information very easy to understand. I fixed a few grammar mistakes and added a few hyperlinks. (In the Mating section, your original sentence was: “For instance, male spiders could external or internal female genitalia during copulation.” It seems like the verb is missing so I added “damage”) I also thought the lead section was a bit short, so I added more content on the web and diet. A few more suggestions: I think a picture can be added at the Description section. For the social behavior section, to me it doesn’t seem to be a strictly social behavior, since this might still be a mating behavior. But I don’t think it’s a bad idea to incorporate it to the previous Web section since it is about female-male interaction at the webs.Arielfeng (talk) 21:28, 25 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job, I thought this was a very comprehensive article! The lead section was a bit short, so I added a few sentences on appearance, social behavior, and courtship rituals. Since you were unable to find a picture of the spider, I think it would be a good idea to reach out to someone who has researched this spider to gain access to their pictures or something similar to this. Under the section on Sizes, I was a bit confused as to why you stated there was no sexual dimorphism yet the females and males seemed to have fairly different sizes, so this could be clarified. Under the section on Male Genitalia, I was a bit confused about some of the language such as "conductor" and "tegulum," so I think these could be described further. I'm also curious to know if there is research on why males often occupy females’ webs instead of building their own, as mentioned in the section on Social Behavior. I rearranged a few sentences throughout the article that had incorrect grammar or did not flow well. Mlschoening (talk) 22:33, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great article! The information you have right now is well-written and interesting. I added some hyperlinks as well as made your "habitat and distribution" section more consistent with your lead section. I also added more to your "webs" section because I thought it could include more information about function and structure. One suggestion I would give is to add a picture in the taxobox! A lot of people will only look at the lead and taxobox so it's important to have a good picture there. Nickh994 (talk) 05:53, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Arielfeng and Mlschoening: although it can be useful to gloss technical terms, this should be done briefly. The article should be about the taxon in question. Thus the section "Male" should describe the palpal bulb of Larinia jeskovi, not spiders in general or the genus Larinia.

A useful way of glossing spider anatomical terms via wikilinks is to use [[Glossary of spider terms#TERM|TERM]], e.g. embolus. Peter coxhead (talk) 07:07, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]