User:Clean Demeanor/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

 * Phoresis:
 * Article Evaluation The articles has relevant content and good citations. The article is also written in a neutral tone. Some improvements that could be made
 * more examples of phoresis used by plants
 * section on how phoresis affects ecological diversity or ecosystem complexity
 * more in depth explanations on how some biological strategies such as dispersal use phoresis
 * clearer explanation on differences that make phoresis commensalistic, parasitic or mutualistic
 * Fossil records of phoresis are mentioned in the lead but not explained anywhere else
 * a brief history of the name is given but no other history of it or its discovery is given
 * there also is no article on hyperphoresis, making that an option for writing
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Option 2

 * Commensalism:
 * Article Evaluation
 * Content relevancy, tone neutrality, and citations and their reliability, all seem good. This articles, however, needs the types of commensalism fleshed out badly. Only surface level information is given.
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Option 3

 * Food chain:
 * Article Evaluation
 * As mentioned in the talk page, this article is often miss identified as the food web article. Somewhere in the article a redirection to the food web article should be made, it also should be added to the see also section. Also mentioned in the talk page is uncertainty in the accuracy of the information in the article. This article needs a lot of work, especially with a rating of level-5 vital article. Some improvements to be made:
 * Lead section is much too long, some paragraphs in the lead should be there own sections. Paragraph 3 is an example of this.
 * Information on the need for the sun in a food chain is inconsistent throughout the article and should be brought in line.
 * further explanation on its use cases and its differences from food webs need to be made.
 * Some areas have too much, unnecessary information in them. For instance when describing decomposers in the lead, the estimated number of decomposers is mentioned.
 * Yet in other sections the information presented is generic, such as the explanation of a food chain starting with a "green plant"
 * Food web and food chain are sometimes used interchangeably when there are clear differences between the two
 * Explanation on how humans "break" the food chain should either be expanded upon or entirely removed
 * The length section has information not relating to the length of a food chain in it Overall this article needs a lot of refining. Information needs to be split into appropriate sections, information needs to be verified, some information needs removed entirely and other sections need to be expanded upon.
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Option 5

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