User:Pm19349/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
 * California red-legged frog


 * Article Evaluation
 * Older sources
 * Sources focused on endangerment
 * Peer-reviewed
 * Page is viewed more often than other options
 * Sources
 * https://setac.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ieam.2002
 * https://bioone.org/journals/northwestern-naturalist/volume-99/issue-1/NWN17-17.1/Occurrence%20of%20California%20Red-Legged%20(%20Rana%20draytonii%20)%20and%20Northern%20Red-Legged%20(%20Rana%20aurora%20)%20Frogs%20in%20Timberlands%20of%20Mendocino%20County,%20California,%20Examined%20with%20Environmental%20DNA/10.1898/NWN17-17.1.full

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Ridgeway's rail


 * Article Evaluation
 * No found peer-reviewed articles, only non peer-reviewed
 * Easily confused with a species of similar name
 * Sources

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Bat ray


 * Article Evaluation
 * Descriptive about animal
 * Recent, peer-reviewed articles
 * Off the coast of California, not quite within it
 * Sources
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783620302290
 * https://www.proquest.com/docview/821515244?OpenUrlRefId=info:xri/sid:primo&accountid=14496

Option 4

 * Article title
 * California red-sided garter snake


 * Article Evaluation
 * Not many peer-reviewed articles


 * Sources
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/3891460?sid=primo&seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Dulzura kangaroo rat


 * Article Evaluation
 * Variety in peer-reviewed journals
 * More general information found about animal


 * Sources
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/23525299?sid=primo#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-mammalogy/volume-89/issue-1/07-MAMM-A-167.1/Differential%20Responses%20of%20Two%20Species%20of%20Kangaroo%20Rat%20(%20Dipodomys%20)%20to%20Heavy%20Rains:%20A%20Humbling%20Reappraisal:%20Fig.%201/10.1644/07-MAMM-A-167.1.full
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/1382937?sid=primo#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.4996/fireecology.0702081