Talk:Ropalidia plebeiana

A Vespidae Project class review
This page had a lot of great detailed information, and I really liked that you added internal wiki links were appropriate. I would suggest adding a couple of external links as well if you have time. I ended up rewording your distribution section a bit, I'm really familiar with Australia and the way you were describing the regions was a little confusing. Canberra is the capital city, and it is in the Capital Territory (basically the equivalent of the District of Columbia). I changed it so you were talking about CT, NSW, and QLD because it make more sense to be talking about states and large areas in this context. Also be super careful when talking about seasonality in the southern hemisphere! For example the part where you say "early spring OR mid-late August" is confusing to me because that IS late winter/early spring in Australia. I changed it to austral spring, which means spring in the southern hemisphere.

One thing you might want to look at is the way you organized your sections. They don't exactly match the class example formatting. However, I think it makes more sense to have them organized the way that you do… unless you organize the information that you have in each section to fit the class format. I'd also try and address caste/reproduction suppression in this species since they seem to have dominant females, this would be a great thing to add if you wanted to look into another section or too. Also you mention cooperation of different colonies but don't elaborate on that in it's own section, that could also be its own section if you so choose. Otherwise, a really great page with a ton of well developed info, great job! Atkarp (talk) 20:58, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Peer Review
Great job on your article! I like how you pointed out how your species is unique because it is the only temperate wasp in a typically tropical genus. I also like that you included a whole section on nesting patterns because this is an often overlooked quality/behavior of wasps. You should, however, expand a bit more upon the Aggregations section. I am still a bit uncertain what an aggregation is (what it looks like and how the nests are connected) and why they are common in this species and not in others (I have never heard of this before!). Add a picture of this if possible! It would allow the reader to visualize any descriptions you give. I think you should create a larger heading for Aggregations within the Nesting Behavior section and then have other subheadings under that for more detailed information about Aggregations. It would allow for a better presentation of the information you have. Again, good job on your article and try to find a wasp picture for the page as well! Probertsg (talk) 21:45, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Edit
This is a very well done article. My main suggestions would be to expand the description at the top of the page. I made a couple of grammatical changes and also added a bunch of links of certain words and terms back to their Wikipedia pages. I particularly enjoyed the sections under the heading of Nesting Patterns. It would be great if you could add some pictures and maybe a distribution map on the page. Overall, the page seems full of interesting and relevant information and is written in a very concise and coherent manner. --Tgalosher (talk) 16:12, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions
Overall this article is through, well written, and well cited. It is also linked to many different pages. However, there are no links in the following sections: “Occupying old nests,” “Costs and benefits of aggregation,” “Dominant behavior,” and “female behavior.” It would be ideal to add links in these sections. The article is also missing a picture. If possible, it would also be good to add a distribution map and a visual indicating the species abundance or if it is endangered. This article is on it’s way to achieving “Good Article” status. Alison Gozlan (talk) 01:35, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

Suggestions
This is great, but I had a few questions. You state that there is no dominance behavior between nest mates, but later you state that the founder females fight for dominance in the new nests; can you clarify this point. Also, a picture would be very beneficial, although your discription of the appearance is pretty good. Sihokazeh (talk) 19:55, 10 September 2015 (UTC)