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Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article Title
 * Prusten
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is a stub article about a specific vocalization made by certain jungle cats. While the article has a neutral tone, it has very little information. The article initially had two citations, neither of which would have been considered reliable. One came from a website, the other from an online dictionary. The first sentence was also missing a citation and was not a strong starting point for the article. The content in the lead is all relevant to the topic but needs to be elaborated on. The article should be expanded on by adding more sections and finding more reliable sources that reference the topic.
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Reproductive Biology of the Snow Leopard, Panthera uncia

'''Int. Ped. Book of Snow Leopards 3: 71-79, 1982.'''

 http://snowleopardnetwork.org/bibliography/Blomqvist_Sten_1982.pdf 

Evolution of Acoustic Communication Signals of Mammals: Friendly Close-Range Vocalizations in Felidae (Carnivora)

Journal of Mammalian Evolution, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1999


 * Article Title
 * Kleptopredation
 * Article Evaluation
 * Kleptopredation is another stub article. This time the first sentence is strong, and does a good job of explaining what the behaviour is. Though there is little quantity in the article, there are three citations that seem to come from reliable sources. The information present is all relevant to the topic, referring to what the behaviour entails and where it can be seen in nature, however the purpose of the behaviour needs to be more distinctly discussed. The article has a neutral tone, but needs to be organized into sections once more information is gathered on the subject. It has no contributions from other authors within its talk page, is rated as a stub class article and has low importance to be expanded upon. There are no images present and so some media should be included to make the article more visually appealing and expand on reader understanding. The article is overall underdeveloped, and could be a good starting point for the rest of the assignment.
 * Sources
 * Willis Trevor J., Berglof Kimberly T. L., McGill Rona A. R., Musco Luigi, Piraino Stefano, Rumsey Claire M., Ferandez Tomas Vega and Badalamenti Fabio. Kleptopredation: a mechanism to facilitate planktivory in a benthic mollusc. 13. Biol. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0447
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 * Willis Trevor J., Berglof Kimberly T. L., McGill Rona A. R., Musco Luigi, Piraino Stefano, Rumsey Claire M., Ferandez Tomas Vega and Badalamenti Fabio. Kleptopredation: a mechanism to facilitate planktivory in a benthic mollusc. 13. Biol. Lett. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0447

Option 3

 * Article Title
 * Twilight Bark
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is once again a stub article and so the contributions made to the topic have not been properly expanded upon. The article does have a neutral tone but some of the information provided in the lead paragraph is not particularly relevant to the behaviour itself. For example it speaks of the coining of the term "Twilight Bark" for this behaviour, and goes onto discuss how it came from the author of the children's book The Hundred and One Dalmatians. There is only one citation present within the lead paragraph, and it refers to the book and author. The article can be improved by altering the information present, and by expanding upon the article by finding reliable sources that discuss the particulars of the behaviour, such as why it occurs, how it was discovered, whether it was present in ancestral lineages. Further, the article needs to have better organization. There should be multiple sections discussing the key aspects of the behaviour. If the writer had considered the origin of the name to be important for example, they could have included this information under a separate heading.
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Feedback

Another student has already assigned themselves the prusten article so it is not available anymore.

While the article on kleptopredation is a stub, it relates to the well-developed article on klepoparasitism that already exists. You will have a hard time developing the article enough with literature that is not specific to klepoparasitism. While interesting, you might have a really hard time finding enough published literature on twilight bark to make a significant contribution to that article. Instead, you might be interested to choose Spite (game theory) which is a start-class article and gives only one example of animals acting in a spiteful way. You can also choose any other sub or start-class article, just make sure they are not closely related to an already developed article.