Talk:Zygiella x-notata

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 15 September 2020 and 17 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): SlyFox52. Peer reviewers: Prernask, Shaynarosenbloom, Sandeep525.

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Student Edits
Overall, this article was very good. The main sections, Mating, Web, and Diet, are all well-developed with lots of properly cited information and the subcategories within them are well-titled and well balanced in terms of how much information is in each and in terms of how the information flows from one to the next. In the section titled Description, I don’t think the last sentence belongs. The sentence “Zygiella x-notata are commonly found on human constructions, such as window frames, walls and fences, as well as on urban vegetations such as bushes or shrubs They are also typically found around boats and on docks throughout the world” would be better suited for the habitat and distribution section to explain what structures the spiders like to live on or around. Further, I think the description under habitat can be more detailed. Readers will likely want to know more about where the spider is originally from and what continents/regions it can be found in today. Lastly, in your article you mention several researchers and their published work (According to Anotaux et al..., Bel-Venner et al. shows that… etc etc). I’m not sure you have to do this if you cite the source at the end of the sentence. Perhaps in order to aid the brevity and readability, you can take these introductions out. Overall, your explanations of the spider mating behavior and web construction and prey capture was very clear and intelligible. I think this article has minimal edits that can be made to improve it as it stands. Sandeep525 (talk)

Hello! This article was well done and very informative. I moved the last part of your Description section (which was discussing where the spider can be found) and edited it into the Habitat section. I also made the distribution section a little clearer based on other information you had given in the article. Shaynarosenbloom (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:55, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

I really liked the details about web construction and how their web weaving technique is unique. I have added another subsection regarding web building flexibility under the web section. I also created a new section about this species being an invasive species in California and how it impacts humans. Prernask (talk) 02:59, 4 November 2020 (UTC)

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Behavioral Ecology Peer Review
I have condensed a couple sections into one (Juvenile + Adult Feeding --> Feeding, and Physiology --> Description), as some of the sections only consisted of a single sentence. I rearranged the image of the webs next to the "Webs" category, and I also made grammar, syntax, and punctuation edits. Overall, a very informative, well-written article. Dyklee (talk) 03:46, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

I thought that Carolyn’s Wikipedia page for Zygiella x-notata was extremely thorough and had a lot of detail. There were minimal grammar errors and syntactical mistakes to correct since the article appeared to be very well edited. All of the sections were subdivided into smaller sub-headings specific to the topic discussed, which made it very easy to read. Of the few corrections I made, I was able to add some external links for terms, including “cephalothorax” and “orb weaver”. There was a header where I had to change “affects” to “effects”.

delanieludmir (talk) 23:26, 03 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi! I thought your article was really informative and had an extensive amount of information. I thought the web section was especially well-organized with appropriate subheader for each section. I changed a few grammatical details to help the language of the article be more concise and fluid such as changing the last sentence of Aggregations subsection. I thought it was more appropriate to place "predatory feeding behavior" and "vibratory signals" as subheaders of "feeding" so I applied accordingly. Overall, I thought it was organized nicely and the amount of images was adequate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidcho122 (talk • contribs) 05:42, 4 December 2020 (UTC)

Behavioral Ecology Peer Review
I think that the Zygiella x-notata should be a GA. From all the articles I read for the class, I think that this one has a good about of information, is really well written. This article has the right amount of information for each of the sections/subsection, along with a good amount of references. Also, it has good information about the behavior of this species: Diet, Mating Behavior, Reproductive and Life Cycle, Social Behavior, Web Construction. I think these points can make it a good article! And how to forget that it was part of the Did you know section in November! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Salazarjhan (talk • contribs) 21:28, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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