User:Amwelch/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

 * Article title
 * Opisthorchis felineus
 * Article Evaluation
 * This page talks about the distribution, life cycle, and effects on human health but doesn't have any additional sections. Not only could these sections use a great deal of expansion and graphics, other areas could be included vectoring, diseases, what it effects, history, body plan, phylogenetic tree, etc. The talk page has no discussion at all. A quick search for scholarly articles shows there is lots of information to pull from that could be included in this page. The page also only has 1 citation.


 * Sources
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138357691100119X
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S002075191300204X
 * https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article/110/1/28/2461623

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Dog flea (Ctenocephalides canis)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This page has sections that include anatomy, signs and symptoms, and treatment/prevention. Ways in which the page could be improved would be by expanding these pages and including sections on body plan, phylogeny, history, host information, life cycle among others. There is some discussion on the talk page about how the page can be improved and about how little info there is. Some of the sources are from peer reviewed journals and others are less credible websites. Would also suggest naming the page its scientific name and putting the common name in parentheses.


 * Sources
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0304401792900369
 * https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-018-2769-9?optIn=false
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304401703004758

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Amblyomma americanum


 * Article Evaluation
 * This page has some decent sections listed in it but additions could include more information about the life cycle, different hosts, how it is spread, history, and distribution among others. There is a good deal of discussion taking place on the talk page of things that can be done to improve the page including the expansion on some of the existing information as well as looking for sources citing information stated on the page. There are quite a few scholarly sources on the page already so it is surprising that moreinformation is not included.


 * Sources
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14787210.2019.1682550
 * https://aem.asm.org/content/73/20/6584.short
 * https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1948-7134.2013.12011.x
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1852332/

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Ixodes scapularis


 * Article Evaluation
 * This page has multiple sections listed but only a few are developed. It could be improved by expanding these sections and adding additional sections to include information about phylogeny, lifecycle, body plan, hosts, distrubtion, treatment, etc. The talk page is moderately active with information modifying some source links and suggestions on how to improve the page. The sources currently cited appear to be from credible peer reviewed sources.


 * Sources
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1286457901014356
 * https://academic.oup.com/jme/article-abstract/33/4/619/2221580
 * https://academic.oup.com/jme/article-abstract/33/1/6/883174

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Spirometra erinaceieuropaei


 * Article Evaluation
 * This page needs a lot of development in all the current sections. They are each only a few lines and much more information could be included. Pictures should be included to demonstrate ideas and in the right hand information reference box. The talk page has very little discussion about how to improve the page. about half of the articles used for citations are credible peer reviewed sources, the other half appear to be from other websites.


 * Sources
 * https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-helminthology/article/survey-of-spirometra-erinaceieuropaei-in-frogs-in-taiwan-and-its-experimental-infection-in-cats/E99A3522EC8D2E714AA56FDF66828588
 * https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00436-018-6079-0
 * https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510682/
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383576916301799
 * https://www.ajtmh.org/content/journals/10.4269/ajtmh.15-0236