Talk:Small heath (butterfly)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
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): J.j.lee. Peer reviewers: LucasKatherine, Arajan1, Shreenidhipm.

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Importance rating
This is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan (2007) species—GRM 15:21, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Life Cycle - poor cut and paste job
I'd like to highlight the need to edit this section. It's been done in a hurry as a cut and paste from Richard South's online book, I think. It's nonsensical out of context of that book (reference to muslin, especially). Hopefully someone will find the time to revise this section. Apologies for not doing so myself - but felt I should, at least, highlight the issue as a priority. Parkywiki (talk) 23:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Major edits
Hello, I am a student from Washington University in St. Louis and will be contributing to this article of the small heath. I will address the cut and paste job from the Life Cycle section (mentioned above) and will continue to develop new and different sections. J.j.lee (talk) 15:12, 2 October 2017 (UTC)

I expanded the overview to include more information and make it an interesting opening for the article, including some facts that I found for other sections. For the Habitat section, I elaborated in more detail on what was already written using as many primary sources as possible. I avoided deleting what was already written unless I could reword or if it had no references. I addressed the other user's concerns about the Life cycle section mentioned earlier by writing the descriptions in my own words from the same and multiple other sources. For Decline in England, I moved it under a Conservation section and added more general information plus citations (that were previously missing). I also included citations for the Subspecies section. For the new information I contributed to this article, I primarily pulled from peer-reviewed primary sources (scientific articles) and followed an outline given by my professor in my behavioral ecology course. New information I added that falls into this outline include: geographic distribution, male territoriality, food resources for both larvae and adults, forms of parental care, parasitism, mating and inter/intrasex interactions, thermoregulation, agriculture effects, and conservation status in the Netherlands. I also included multiple photos throughout the article using the default, built-in image bank, but I couldn't find pictures of the small heath in other life stages. I hope you find this summary of my edits helpful! J.j.lee (talk) 18:42, 3 October 2017 (UTC)


 * I am another student also editing the article. I made a lot of sentence changes to fix errors in comma usage and syntax. Make sure to double check for run on sentences in the future. I removed information that was repetitive, and removed subheadings if it was the only subsection in a section. Also, make sure that you never quote anything directly with quotation marks on wikipedia. I also cut out information that was not specific to the butterfly. For instance, the article spent several sentences explaining what an instar was, despite the fact that it had already linked the wikipedia page for instar. While explaining what happens in the small heath's instars is fine, make sure you keep the information relevant. I would also reconsider your paragraph explaining the costs and benefits of the mating system to the female. The point of this assignment is to write a good wikipedia page, not prove that you've taken behavioral ecology, and it is not specific to the small heath. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexandra.payne (talk • contribs) 23:08, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

File:Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) P.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Small heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) P.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on July 10, 2017. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2017-07-10. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:27, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Student - WikiProject
Hi! This is a great comprehensive article about the small heath butterfly! In the overview, I fixed some repetition about the geographic range of the butterfly since you had two sentences giving the same information. As well, I found a source that talks about how this species is diurnal, so I added that information to the overview. Finally, I fixed a few grammatical errors and added hyperlinks to several words like lekking, calcarous, and nuptial gifts. Thanks! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arajan1 (talk • contribs) 14:24, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

This article covers a great range of information about the butterfly. The section on mating brings to light interesting aspects of sexual selection such as aggression, lekking and nuptial gifts. The article is well-written and easy to understand. I made slight stylistic edits to the sentences. I removed home range as a sub-section heading because the paragraph was about territoriality. Since, this butterfly of importance to UK Biodiversity action plan, possibly the conservation section can be developed.Shreenidhipm (talk) 01:49, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Project Review
Hi! I am also reviewing this page for a behavioral ecology course. This page has a solid amount of information on the life cycle and mating of this species. More information on behavior could greatly improve this page, and the Physiology and Conservation sections could be added to in future edits. I used one of the sources previously cited in the article, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00310985?LI=true source, to add information to the “Aggression” subsection of the “Mating” section in order to flesh out the effects of temperature on male-male interactions (was only previously referred to in the context of male-female interactions). I also added additional information from source #5 to the Conservation section of the article, adding more information on the effects of elevated CO2 levels on this species. I also made some general grammatical and structural changes to sentences throughout the page. LucasKatherine (talk) 04:36, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Peer Review
Hi, I thought that this article was excellent and very well written! Its mating section is particularly detailed, clear in its writing, and quite informative. I made a minor grammatical change and added some links throughout the article. I think that finding some images for other stages of the life cycle would be particularly helpful in illustrating the large amount of content you've added to that section. I think that the Territoriality section could either be removed or moved to either the Habitat or Aggression subsection under Mating, as it is quite short and has information that is already covered under the Aggression subsection. However, it is also relevant to the Habitat section - adding it into that section would be helpful as well. I also think the subspecies and similar species could be moved up, as I do not think it flows well being at the end of the article. Perhaps adding it between Enemies and Mating or below the Habitat section would flow better. jerryshen (talk) 23:19, 29 November 2017 (UTC)