User talk:Adp2020
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[edit]Hello, Adp2020, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.
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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:42, 9 September 2020 (UTC)
Peer Review
[edit]Hello Adp2020, This is Cami Lange (Cgpitt) and I am the one who did your peer review on medieval bioarchaeology. I first looked at your sandbox and I really thought that it was a great idea that you had compiled a list of potential citations to add to the article. I think that this is a great place to start! I think that your addition to the isotope analysis of food sources was a good addition. Keep it up! I also noticed, that one of your references in your sandbox was as current as 2019-2020. One of the critiques I had about the article in and of itself was that many of the references are older in the sense that the latest one is from 2015. I think that if you could find studies or other works that are more current this could be a real good place for you to start editing the content of this article or even just adding citations to back up prior information written. I noticed that this article is in the start-class so I really think that the content that you will add is going to greatly improve the article!
When it comes to things that I think you can improve on in this article one of the main ones is the lead section. While I think that this section does a good job of broadly explaining what bioarchaeology is I think that it could do a much better job at providing information as to the importance of this topic as well as what will be discussed in the article. So, maybe mention the subsections and how they relate to bioarchaeology as well as broadly why the study of bioarchaeology is important. I think that another big part of improving this article would be to find other studies that supported the information and studies that are already referenced in each of the sections. In the section about Enamel hypoplasia, porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia, and Harris lines only one study is mentioned for each of those stress indicators. I think other studies or information could be used to back up these findings. In prior classes, I have been told that one study shouldn't be the content of an entire topic area and I feel as though that happens often in this article. I think that if you could find other sources that come to the same conclusion it would provide the reader with more assurance that the information that they are reading isn't just a fluke. Good luck with editing and great start!