User:Bo789/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
 * Ethnoornithology


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very bare bones. It does not include many sections. There is a separate page on relationships between birds and humans that is much more in depth on this topic. I think this page would benefit from more information on the history of this field of study as well as filling in the "Approaches to ethnoornithology" section which has a header but is not filled in at all. There are also a few minor wording and formatting issues that I see that if fixed, would benefit the page.


 * Sources
 * Ethno-Ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society by Tidemann, Editted by Sonia C. and Gosler, Andrew (an older edit of this is included as a source so this could be used to fill in some of the missing information).
 * Ethno-Ornithology and Biological Conservation by Bonta, Mark (this is included as an article in the book listed above and contains a lot of useful and relevant information).

Option 2

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 * Ploceidae


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article would benefit from a lot more information in it! It has a few sections but each one contains few sources and little information. Several of the sections are also lacking a direct citation (I assume this means the same citation was used for several sections). So more sources would be good. I believe this is a fairly well studied group so it would be beneficial to add more information to this page. A lot of research has specifically been done on their nest building so this could be an interesting area to add more information to, specifically with the role of cognitive skills in nest construction. This is included under the behavior and ecology heading but I think considering the significance of Ploceidae nests, a separate subheading or heading could be useful


 * Sources
 * Walsh Patrick T., Hansell Mike, Borello Wendy D. and Healy Susan D. 2010. Repeatability of nest morphology in African weaver birdsBiol. Lett.6149–151
 * Walsh, P. T., Hansell, M., Borello, W. D., & Healy, S. D. (2011). Individuality in nest building: Do Southern Masked weaver (Ploceus velatus) males vary in their nest-building behaviour? Behavioural Processes, 88(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2011.06.011

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