User:Bokhan/sandbox

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cranial kinesis

snake skeleton

moulting

snake skin

Wiki Assignments (week 2-4)
Week 2 Assignment

Mammal

Questions to answer:

I believe that everything in the article is relevant to the topic at hand and that there aren't any jarring distractions. I also think that everything in the page is very factual and not making any claims that aren't based in fact.

Most of the links in the article worked but there were a couple that turned up as duds, for instance the link for citation 5 took me to a page that couldn't be found or had been deleted. All of the citations are also formatted correctly and nothing seems to air on the side of plagiarism.

There are a couple conversations going on on the page, one of them being the importance of mammal communication which my group took a particular interest in

Week 3 Assignment

This week I chose to edit a portion of the article to fix some grammatical errors and the overall flow of the sentence. I still don't feel very comfortable making any edits live, so instead I will draft my changes here:

original text:

In intelligent mammals, such as primates, the cerebrum is larger relative to the rest of the brain. Intelligence itself is not easy to define, but indications of intelligence include the ability to learn, matched with behavioral flexibility. Rats, for example, are considered to be highly intelligent, as they can learn and perform new tasks, an ability that may be important when they first colonize a fresh habitat. In some mammals, food gathering appears to be related to intelligence: a deer feeding on plants has a brain smaller than a cat, which must think to outwit its prey.

proposed change:

Primates have relatively large cerebrums in comparison to the rest of the brain. Primates themselves demonstrate intelligence in a number of ways, the most important being the ability to learn and behavioral flexibility. Rats, which are considered highly intelligent creatures, are able to learn and perform tasks, which can potentially play a role in the ways that they colonize new habitats. Intelligence can also be linked to food and resource gathering: where animals that engage in predatory behavior require brains big enough to outwit their prey as opposed to animals that feed on vegetation.

Week 4 Assignment

articles for considering:

Garter snake - assigned species of snake for project

Snake skeleton - not a lot of references for a lot of information being presented

2**Cranial kinesis - there's a section for snakes but it's un-cited and short, plus it's linked to the main snake page which means it has potential for a lot of traffic

Forked tongue - very short page with minimal information but lots of references? the talk page is also very interesting in terms of what people think isn't information that should be included

3*Snake scale - citations seem very vague/wonky

1***Moulting - this page is terrible, really out of date references (most interested)

Peer Review Feedback Response
Since the contributions I plan to add to my wikipedia page is are fairly minimal due to the nature of the topic and the lack of research done on it, most of the peer feedback I received is easy to incorporate into my changes.

One change that was proposed was to make it more clear that I'm referring to the act of eating with my topic, and I too think that it's an important distinction to make so I will make a small adjustment to the contribution that mentions feeding explicitly.

The only other suggestion given to me was to reduce the size of the image. I agree with this. I copy and pasted the image from wikimedia commons but there was no way for me to alter the size upon putting it in the sandbox. Is there any way for me to do this? I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if I maybe have to find a different picture if this one cannot be altered.