Talk:Leucauge mariana

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): Dgoldblum. Peer reviewers: Davidcho122, Kekaze, Shay bala.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 00:03, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Creating the page
I am a Behavioral Ecology student and I am creating this page as a part of a class assignment. I have found multiple papers on mating and web construction but I have found little else. If there are any papers on distribution, habitat, diet, descriptions, and a picture of this spider please let me know! Dgoldblum (talk) 06:35, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Student Suggestions
This was a well-written and well-rounded article! I really enjoyed reading your article particularly the portion on copulation was especially informative. I made general grammatical adjustments. Seeing that your web section was pretty extensive, I added an image of a general orb weaver web of the same genus to give the readers a general idea of how the webs look. I think it would beneficial to add more image even if not specifically from the mariana species and also elaborate on the description of the spider. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidcho122 (talk • contribs) 04:40, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Recent edits and Credit
After creating the page I reached out to one of the experts on this spider species, Dr. William G. Eberhard, and he helped me with the most recent edits. He sent a lot of the description information based on his observations and improved the web construction section. He helped me with specifics throughout the article as well. I just want to make sure he gets due credit for helping!--Dgoldblum (talk) 23:09, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Fellow student article feedback
Hi Danny! Your article is quite interesting and has very solid content that is well-supported by references. Most of the changes I made were to increase the clarity of the sentence. For example, I changed the term “multiple courtship behaviors…” to “several courtship behaviors…” so as to not give the impression that the spider engages in multiple courtships at a time, but rather simply has several different courtship behaviors it employs. I also added some extra organization to the article, creating new paragraphs where I thought was best. In the introduction, for example, I separated the content about mating plugs into a second paragraph and began it with, “A particularly interesting feature of L. mariana…” I also reorganized the “Mating” section to add a female/male interactions header and relabel the “pre-copulatory sequence” subsection as “courting”, moving it under female/male interactions header. I then also added a subsection on adult sociality within the “Social behavior” section and moved a statement that I felt was misplaced in the “Habitat” section to there. Lastly, I removed redundant information and unnecessary in-text citation mentions in the “Taxonomy” section. Otherwise, I saw no other issues with your article and I wish you luck with your good article status nomination! Shay bala (talk) 05:29, 8 January 2021 (UTC)