Talk:Silver-studded blue

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): ClaudiaEE. Peer reviewers: Catejiang, Liu.emily.

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Review
I think it would be beneficial to clarify in the lead section that the butterfly exhibits sexual dimorphism before jumping into the description. I broke up the description section into adult and larvae. This section still needs a citation, which I had trouble finding. I added information about their mutualism with ants under egg guarding and expanded on the benefit of reduced parental investment under the mutualism section.Felderp (talk) 03:49, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Overall, I think this is a well-written article and it covers a large breadth of information. I would recommend adding more internal Wikipedia links where possible in order to better explain some concepts mentioned. I was also intrigued by the fact that this butterfly has a mutualistic relationship with ants, which led me to wonder about its interactions with other species. If it is the victim of parasitism or if there is any sort of conflict between P. argus and other species which occupy similar habitats, that would be interesting to include. Lauraem7 (talk) 11:20, 30 November 2017 (UTC)

Importance rating
This is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan species—GRM 15:04, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Article Edits
Hi, all. Thank you for reviewing my article! These edits are very helpful and I've added citations accordingly. To directly respond to Y.shin's comment about the mating section- in reading the article in question, it is clear that it does indeed reference Plebejus argus, so the citation is valid after looking past the title. I will continue working on the article and contributing relevant, cited information to the page, especially on the topic of life cycle! ClaudiaEE 23:28, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Review
Overall the article was well-written, and I made edits for formatting and grammar. I italicized the species name in all instances that the scientific name was mentioned and changed the headings to correspond to sentence case as used for Wiki standards. I also added Wiki hyperlinks to other species and terms used. There were two citations that were exactly the same in the reference list, so I fixed the citation to use the same source. I think it would be most helpful for this article if the Life Cycle section to be better expanded upon, with at least one section per life cycle stage. The "Life Cycle" also has a sentence referencing "grizzled skippers." If that is another name for the species, it might help to put that in the lead introduction. Also, the "Geographic range" section mentioned that the butterfly experienced a decline in population, so it would be more informative to either briefly explaining why and have the "Habitat Loss" provide details. Catejiang (talk) 05:14, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

First of all, there is no citation within both of the “Appearance” and “Geographic Range” sections. This information needs to be cited. Also, I noticed that the whole “Mating” section is based on an article about the species Lycaeides argyrognomon. This seems to be a different species than the Plebejus argus the page is supposed to be about, so I would recommend checking this out. I added some information about sexual dimorphism as a subsection under “Appearance.” This could be better incorporated, but since the other information in that section was not cited, I did not want to use that information without knowing where it came from. Better flow or incorporation can be worked on when the text is properly cited. Also, I contributed a very short section on larvae. The life cycle (especially regarding information about the egg and pupa) is definitely an area that could use more work in. Y.shin (talk) 12:12, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I had added some images throughout the article to help readers better visualize some descriptions. In addition, some grammatical and structural wordings were changed. Also, most other articles seemed to lump caterpillar appearance descriptions with the life cycle section. It might be helpful to do that because that subsection is so short... Overall great job! Jenniferra (talk) 15:40, 29 November 2017 (UTC)