User:Beautimuss/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: Elephantida
 * Article Evaluation: Elephantida consists of three mammals:
 * Elephant
 * Gomphotheres (now extinct)
 * Stegodontis (now extinct)
 * The article vaguely shows, via a phylogeny tree, how the different species within the family Elephantidans are all related.
 * Though there is this comparison, there is no factual evidence to prove this. With several descriptions of each species, it is possible to dial down on the possibilities of how these species are related to one another.
 * Sources:
 * 1. Jacqui Codron, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer, Daryl Codron, Rina C. Grant, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Diets in Kruger National Park, South Africa: Spatial and Landscape Differences, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 87, Issue 1, 20 February 2006, Pages 27–34, https://doi.org/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-017R1.1
 * 2. Cerling, T., Harris, J. & Leakey, M. Oecologia (1999) 120: 364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050869
 * 1. Jacqui Codron, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer, Daryl Codron, Rina C. Grant, Darryl J. de Ruiter, Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Diets in Kruger National Park, South Africa: Spatial and Landscape Differences, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 87, Issue 1, 20 February 2006, Pages 27–34, https://doi.org/10.1644/05-MAMM-A-017R1.1
 * 2. Cerling, T., Harris, J. & Leakey, M. Oecologia (1999) 120: 364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420050869

Option 2

 * Article title: Microgale
 * Article Evaluation: The article gives a narrow background on the history of the microgale. It's mentioned that there is two specific species that were moved to another family. There was no background or explanation as to why scientist felt this was a necessary switch. There was also no information that even helped the audience to get a visual representation of what this mammal looked like.
 * Sources:
 * Thomas E. Tomasi, Echolocation by the Short-Tailed Shrew Blarina brevicauda, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 60, Issue 4, 20 November 1979, Pages 751–759, https://doi.org/10.2307/1380190
 * Joseph F. Merritt, Winter Survival Adaptations of the Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda) in an Appalachian Montane Forest, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 67, Issue 3, 8 August 1986, Pages 450–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/1381276
 * Pearson, Oliver P. “Longevity of the Short-Tailed Shrew.” The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 34, no. 2, 1945, pp. 531–546. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2421143.
 * Joseph F. Merritt, Winter Survival Adaptations of the Short-Tailed Shrew (Blarina brevicauda) in an Appalachian Montane Forest, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 67, Issue 3, 8 August 1986, Pages 450–464, https://doi.org/10.2307/1381276
 * Pearson, Oliver P. “Longevity of the Short-Tailed Shrew.” The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 34, no. 2, 1945, pp. 531–546. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2421143.