Talk:Mixotrophic dinoflagellate

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You've made a very good start on the subject. There were a number of things that should have been picked up in the initial version For example: -	There were a number of citations that needed to be corrected -	Formatting of references was not consistent -	A number of grammatical errors -	Some sentences were not complete -	Some sections are repetitive -	Many species names were not italicized

I went through and corrected a number of these Overall, a good job on your initial Wikipedia contribution Curt99 (talk) 00:15, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Hi,

Well written and thorough article looking at many aspects of the mixotrophic dinoflagellate. The introduction I feel could be started off as explaining what mixotrophic dinoflagellates are, as opposed to talking about previous research, which may be taken out or talked about later in the article. Some sentences may be a bit too short, ruining the flow of the article. You may want to expand on 'gut clearance/gut fullness approach' as it seems important to understand Some parts of the species section maybe could be moved to the types of feeding section.

Thanks, Aziechaners (talk) 18:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC) Alyssa

Hi, Here are some some of my thoughts about the article:

I feel if the place of the two paragraphs in the introduction were swapped it would have been a better-structured introduction. The second paragraph starts with introducing some general characteristics about dinoflagellate while the first paragraph dwells into a fairly specific topic about dinoflagellates.

In the “Specie” section, there are a some facts un-cited. For example “Some species are not affected by light intensity”

In the “type of feeding” the sentence “Dinoflagellates were thought to only have one mouth as a path of food intake” seems unnecessary since it is un-cited and turns out to be wrong anyways.

In the “Climate Change and Ocean Acidification” section: It says that as CO2 concentration increases “Mixotrophic dinoflagellates will be favoured over photosynthetic dinoflagellates, being able to consume the influx of particulate organic carbon”. I got a bit confused here because CO2 is inorganic carbon and also photosynthetic organisms consume CO2 so how could they be not favored in case of increased CO2.

Thanks

Danial Mojaab

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Hi,

I believe that this is a well-written article. A good amount of resources are used and in-text citations are present. All the sections are well organized and detailed. I like how you have talked about the organism, its role in the environment and further expanded on its relationship with other organisms. The content is neutral and does not focus too much on positive or negative information.

However, I think that the lead structure can be better organized. The first couple of sentences can be used to introduce the organism and than you can talk about previous understanding about this organism.

Thanks

- Harrimal Cheema