User:NicoleFipps/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
- This is ok, but should probably pick a genus or species within this family. - Josh


 * Article title : Flannel Moth
 * Article Evaluation
 * It is a stub. It briefly talks about it's life cycle and the fact that it is poisonous.
 * Sources
 * refers to a family of species. There seems to be a decent amount of journals surrounding flannel moths at first glance through webofscience.com and google scholar, but only when looking up the family name, not 'Flannel moths'.
 * Sources
 * refers to a family of species. There seems to be a decent amount of journals surrounding flannel moths at first glance through webofscience.com and google scholar, but only when looking up the family name, not 'Flannel moths'.

Option 2
- Ok, but any references already in the article don't count toward your requirements. - Josh


 * Article title: Cossus cossus (goat moth)
 * Article Evaluation
 * The introduction is completely lacking. It has a paragraph about the biology of the animal and then a few sentences about how it used to be used as food
 * Sources
 * when searching "cossus cossus" AND "goat moth" on webofscience.com only 3 articles come up. On google scholar there were about 250.  A lot of seems to stem around sex pheromones of the female.
 * Sources
 * when searching "cossus cossus" AND "goat moth" on webofscience.com only 3 articles come up. On google scholar there were about 250.  A lot of seems to stem around sex pheromones of the female.

Option 3
- You can try, but not a lot of sources. - Josh


 * Article title: Chestnut clearwing moth
 * Article Evaluation
 * It is a stub. It has two sentences stating what family it is in and that it is found in the U.S.
 * Sources
 * On the two search engines, there is only a total of 12-ish sources that come up as a result. I don't think there is very much known about this moth especially with one the articles being about the 'rediscovery' of the moth.
 * Sources
 * On the two search engines, there is only a total of 12-ish sources that come up as a result. I don't think there is very much known about this moth especially with one the articles being about the 'rediscovery' of the moth.

Option 4
- Good - Josh


 * Article title: Zygaena loti
 * Article Evaluation
 * There is a brief description of the biology of the animal, it's habitat and it's biology. Other than that, the article is very short with the majority of it being made of pictuers.
 * Sources
 * In my search, webofscience.com only came up with 2 results and google scholar came up with roughly 50. Some of the articles seem extensive and focused on very interesting topics like cannibalism of unhatched siblings.
 * Sources
 * In my search, webofscience.com only came up with 2 results and google scholar came up with roughly 50. Some of the articles seem extensive and focused on very interesting topics like cannibalism of unhatched siblings.

Option 5
- This is ok as long as you can deal with the issues you brought up about it being a subfamily. - Josh


 * Article title: Dichomeridinae
 * Article Evaluation
 * Only contains 4 sentences separated into 3 sections. There are many references cited but it seems that that is only in relation to the taxonomy of the moth.
 * Sources
 * This one I didn't realize was actually a subfamily. On webofscience.com, only about 6 articles show up, but all are fairly recent.  On google scholar, I found about 200 results.  The first result actually focused on "Phylogeny, classification, and position in the system of gelechiid moths".  I do feel like this would be an interesting one, but I am not sure whether it being a subfamily would cause problems for me when finding sources.
 * Sources
 * This one I didn't realize was actually a subfamily. On webofscience.com, only about 6 articles show up, but all are fairly recent.  On google scholar, I found about 200 results.  The first result actually focused on "Phylogeny, classification, and position in the system of gelechiid moths".  I do feel like this would be an interesting one, but I am not sure whether it being a subfamily would cause problems for me when finding sources.