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Article evaluation
Megafauna extinctions: Megafauna

Quaternary extinction event

The article is heavily angle towards the idea that most of the megafaunal extinctions were driven by human activity. Where climate is mentioned, sources are lacking.

I had to remove a line in the hunting hypothesis section because it was uncited, but when I found the source the authors claim was the opposite and it did not belong in that section.

I posted in the talk page for more knowledgeable people to work in this section because a lot of attention is being focused in different areas but even the biased sections like the hunting hypothesis one need considerable work.

Could add a section to support the climate change hypothesis based on our reading about novel climates but i'm not sure if that's infringing on copyright if I cite it.

Myself, Aly East and Matt Goldsmith
These are our possible topics that we complied together. We decided that we want to work on No-analog communities because it is essentially a stub and there's a lot of good information we could add to it. Also it isn't a very contested article so we should really have free reign of it without people trying to get rid of our stuff.

No-analog Communities

This article has 1 sentence and a few examples. For this article we would build out the whole article. Including overview, history of theory, strategies to overcome the issue, examples, prevalence through time periods/causes. Even if we couldn't add all of this, we would be able to add some much needed bulk to the article.

Quaternary extinction event

This article is about the Quaternary extinctions and and the multiple theories surrounding them. It is pretty biased towards the human caused extinctions theory and does not represent the climate change hypothesis very thoroughly. Given we’ve spent a moderate amount of time discussing this and have a number of relevant sources we could potentially improve these sections a lot. Other sections of the article need citing and areas that are back by opinion exist that need to be changed.

Late Pleistocene

This article is incredibly sparse, with and introduction and a brief discussion of bison in North America. The talk page also includes some discussion over terminology inaccuracies within the article. Firstly we would review the article for accuracy, and round out the citations. Then adding sections about characteristic flora and fauna, climate, extinction events, and transition to holocene.

Riverbluff Cave

This page describes Riverbluff cave, a site where multiple pleistocene fossils have been discovered. It has many dead references and gives a vague description of the species found in the cave. To fix it we would include functional citations, and a detailed list of species found in the the citations.

Oxygen-16

This is a stub article that defines oxygen-16 and the processes through which it is formed. It mentions nothing about its applications in palaeoecology while oxygen-18 mentions palaeoecology in great detail. We would draw a lot of information from the oxygen-18 page’s citations since oxygen-18 and oxygen-16 are two sides of the same coin and add paleoecology section to the article.