Talk:Nicrophorus quadripunctatus

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2024
— Assignment last updated by Sachi.sb (talk) 18:07, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Overall suggestions/comments
This article does a strong job at giving a general overview of the beetle. There is plenty of information provided on the mating process and parental care, but it would be helpful to include more details on how larvae behavior may be affected by this. I added some information under the mating and social behavior section to include how males and females participate in biparental care and how sibling competition can affect larvae behavior. I was wondering what the brood size of this beetle species typically is as this may help build a picture of the intensity of sibling competition larvae face. BreannaY77 (talk) 19:52, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Short overview of article + minor tweak
The article seems clear and understandable, presenting information about the species, its behavior, habitat, diet, and lifecycle, all vital parts of the beetle’s description. It also stayed neutral throughout and there doesn't seem to be any extra, unverifiable facts in the article. One issue I saw was with the citations. A lot of citations had vital important missing information. I went through each citation and did my best to fix them. I also noticed that all the references were duplicated in two sections so I deleted the second section to avoid redundancy.

Bops22 (talk) 20:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Overall I found this article to be insightful and full of great information. I had made changes to the overall grammatical structures and went back to hyperlink certain words to add greater depth to the writing overall. I found each section to be done well, and it had a good flow to it. Usertalk: e.kidest — Preceding unsigned comment added by E.kidest (talk • contribs) 04:51, 22 March 2024 (UTC)