User:Alfielevitski/Choose an Article

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 - White-footed mouse
This is a C-class (intermediate) article with a completeness score of 42, which means there is ample room for improvement. Although it is rated low-importance by WikiProject Rodents, I believe this topic is a great candidate for our project. The white-footed mouse is very widespread in urban environments such as NYC, and several sources report that they are rapidly evolving to digest fatty foods easily found in urban parks and resist certain fungal infections commonly encountered in the city. Currently, the article does not mention any of these apparent urban adaptations. (This article gets 76 views per day.)

Sources:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0983

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mec.14369?casa_token=bPwf4tv2uhgAAAAA:fnXTPUGEentYT8CkTUxKavVQoCl5_hroU2jHVMq-1xyHvkqos4m41L-G2YtVvR5LRHjvDVqTfoses60

https://peerj.com/articles/310/

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0074938

https://bioone.org/journals/Bulletin-of-the-Peabody-Museum-of-Natural-History/volume-58/issue-1/014.058.0102/Morphological-Differentiation-in-White-Footed-Mouse-Mammalia--Rodentia/10.3374/014.058.0102.short

https://www.nybg.org/files/forest/MunshiSouth_2011.pdf

Option 2 - Trifolium repens
This is a Start-class (preliminary) article with a completeness score of 58, which means there is plenty of room for improvement. It is ranked mid-importance by WikiProject Plants. The white clover is a very common species in urban environments and has been a model organism for urban evolution research, as mentioned in the Wiki article. I believe this page can be improved by providing more detail on the types of urban-specific adaptations white clover populations have evolved. (This article gets 232 views per day.)

Sources:

https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.486.2

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1019

https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1157&context=aes

Option 3 - London Underground mosquito
This is a C-class (intermediate) article with a completeness score of 60, which means there is some room for improvement. Although it is rated low-importance by WikiProject Insects, I believe it is a good potential candidate for our project. The article could be improved by expanding the discussion on specific environmental factors that drive mosquito evolution, as well as the outcomes of this process. (This article gets 77 views per day.)

Sources:

https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/36270664/2011__Urban_arthropods_Urban_Ecol_Patterns__Processes__and_Appl_2011-with-cover-page-v2.pdf?Expires=1663453564&Signature=WCIhwcNgPSIEdYerIO1kokBdsWwwLuepRTns8zAkYjuK-FJ62o1grXlaTDs4jBoyqo5Go3h67~hIT~YeEoSwUbiqX~NHQDc6Jd9QY-8SWDryuMnc-xx9lJCo9UvPeFx8yXj1S7rRVbKcElJ2M~VdByWpp5yEIZqXaNRDBYPcrUo3FBn7cmSuHth9ep98IOaAtrnY0FXXWRfKTu4ah-SjH-BPds4on1~U6Xy2nr7JLYRJdphgM2K9EIXUY7uQ2umeV~UvU70znPnjA6BTbIqfyOdapKrM8mGGmND7zf2um3Y4ZD4B2fVeeofM85~PqT4T-A4HwQEIsDaiv59AOLN8pg__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA

https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/wurjhns/article/view/14050

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982222001245