Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arthropods

Please help to check if my edit is proper.

Hello!

I'm a devotee of predatory arthropods and I'm new to here. I did a large-scale edit on the article of Peruvian giant centipede. Please have a look on it to see if my edit is proper or valid.

Cheers! User:Toxic Walker 17:31, 17 June 2012‎ (UTC)

Help on Acanthocephala terminalis article

There's a bit of a disagreement on the Talk:Acanthocephala terminalis page and I would appreciate if some more experienced editors could weigh in, specifically regarding the inclusion of some potentially self-published sources (1, 2, 3). I first brought this up on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Insects but did not receive any feedback, so I thought I would ask for some assistance here. Thank you. Ncb1221 (talk) 15:03, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Ovalipes catharus

Hey, fellow arthropod fan people. Yesterday and today, I spent some time cleaning up Ovalipes catharus because it was a complete mess. The sections on reproduction (student editor) and their relation to humans were fine, but the appearance, distribution, diet, and predators sections (seemingly contributed by one single-purpose editor in 2017) were mired in synthesis, outright misinformation, unintelligible nonsense, and high-school-essay-minimum-word-requirement-isms.

As I went through in a short period of time and rewrote basically half the article, I'm putting this here in case anyone wants to double-check my work and fill in any gaps I may have missed. I feel I did my my best to correct/reel in existing content and add new material, but I'm not a carcinologist and lack enough experience to feel fully confident in my work. This was done only as an emergency because of the egregious state of the article. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 03:32, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

I went overboard

Hi again. Following up from my previous post here: I've since improved Ovalipes catharus to good article status, and I've nominated it as a featured article. I'd be hugely appreciative if there's anyone here who's especially used to editing decapod articles (or marine biology ones in general) who could absolutely skewer me for all the things I probably did wrong at O. catharus but simply missed. Ultimately, I brought this to FAC as a stress test of the article's quality to improve it, not to get an easy award. Free barnstar for anyone who can find two (2) objectively incorrect things about the article as it exists at time you're reading this. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 02:03, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Excellent. One thing, I think you typoed oxygeneios as oxygeneiosis

Perhaps also replace 'heavily influenced by' with 'strongly related to'

- Kweetal nl (talk) 07:01, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm willing to consider that second one an objective mistake as the wording assumes cause and effect! TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 15:04, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

I'm realizing now there's no such thing as a crustaceans barnstar yet. I hope you can wait on yours while I try my hand at making one. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 15:07, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

This looks nice enough

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crustacean_barnstar.png Kweetal nl (talk) 16:09, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Oh, whoooops. Well, uh, I guess I made a 2.0 version then. TheTechnician27 (Talk page) 17:06, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Getting in touch with an expert

Hello. As you can see from my post on this talk page, it appears that I have stumbled across a nomenclature error related to an arthropod. I've been trying to get in touch with an expert, but so far without luck. If anyone here could help me, I would much appreciate it. Anonymous 18:25, 3 January 2025 (UTC)