User:Baum019/Last Glacial Maximum refugia/Snowboots11 Peer Review

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Baum019
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 * User:Baum019/Last Glacial Maximum refugia
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 * Last Glacial Maximum refugia:

Evaluate the drafted changes
Overall this article draft is a substantial improvement on the main article, which is a stub. This draft brings it to a full article. The lead has been updated to provide a concise summary of the article topic, Last Glacial Maximum Refugia. The only change to the lead I could suggest is to include a summary of the article sections.

The article content has been greatly expanded and improved. All content added is relevant to the topic. For the sentence “Globally, the temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) were 4.0 ± 0.8 °C cooler than present day,” which you noted is good context but does not “fit well anywhere,” I think keeping it in its current place but adding a linking sentence between this one and the next: “The northern hemisphere was heavily impacted by ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM),” would be sufficient and it would not have to be moved. Adding sections for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and subsections for refugia within both, seems a good way to divide the article. The original article only utilized one source, which has been expanded to 24 source, all of which are peer-reviewed articles from the last 20 years. A couple sources are linked via the UMaine proxy, which I would just make sure to change before moving them to the public article.

The content is well-written and clear; the only errors I found were the word “temperature” that should instead be “temperate,” and using the plural word “refugia” when singular “refugium” should be used.

4 relevant images were added to the article, each of which was a good choice and contributes to greater understanding of the article subsections. They are well captioned and seem to adhere to Wikipedia’s copyright regulations.

This is great work overall. The content added greatly improves the quality of the whole article, providing additional information and examples of LGM refugia from regions within the northern and southern hemispheres.