Talk:Escherichia coli/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Adam Cuerden (talk · contribs) 15:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

A pretty good start, there are, however, a few minor points to clear up.
 * 1) The lead is a very good brief scientific description. However, Wikipedia is meant to be a general encyclopedia, so it would be a good idea to first give a simple description for non-biologists. A sentence or two would suffice, I think. ✅
 * 2) The article is a little on the hard side. I've studied biology, and, while I didn't focus on microbiology, I did take a couple classes. I still had to check links to find out what "peritrichous" and to remind myself what "enteric" meant. As such, I think the article could stand to define terms a bit more.
 * Can you please mention them.
 * Eh, I waive the point. I was eyeing "Gram-negative" and "faculatively anaerobic", but that's so basic to microbiology that maybe it's not worth it. Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:15, 27 February 2014 (UTC)✅


 * 1) "Escherichia coli is a species." ...Is there any point to this sentence? If you get that far into the article without picking up that information....✅
 * 2) The phylogeny chart could use more introduction, and explaining of the different groups labelled on it.
 * As I am not a student of biology, I have very little information about it. I will ask a microbiologist editor.RRD13 (talk) 08:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Much information has been provided. Anymore will make it overdetailed. RRD13 (talk) 14:00, 5 March 2014 (UTC)


 * 1) "Bacterium coli was the type species of the now invalid genus Bacterium when it was revealed that the former type species ("Bacterium triloculare") was missing." - What, exactly, happened here? Did they lose the sample? Did the species become extinct? I'm only really familiar with type species for larger organisms, admittedly, but this seems to call for a little more elucidation.
 * It was reclassified. RRD13 (talk) 13:54, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Can you please tell me where it is.RRD13 (talk) 08:03, 27 February 2014 (UTC)


 * That is in "History" Adam Cuerden (talk) 08:15, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

On the whole, this article is pretty good. I'm going to guess that it's only been worked on by microbiologists, though, as it could use a little work to make it more useful for general readers (while keeping all the information, just starting from a step further back, as it were). Adam Cuerden (talk) 15:03, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Right. Looking it over again... Promoted. It will likely need a copyedit before FA, though. Adam Cuerden (talk) 03:12, 10 March 2014 (UTC)