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Article evaluation for Criteria air pollutants
Every context is related to the topic, the background describes how the six criteria been recognized. Certain sections from the U.S. Clean Air Act is added to the article. The article then explains specifically about the ozone, atmospheric particulate matter, lead, carbon monoxide, sulfur oxides, and nitrogen oxides. The article keeps following the newest information, it mentions the petition to add seven criteria air pollutants. The article mainly talked about the criteria air pollutants based on Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), standards of criteria air pollutants from other countries can be added to this article.

The article uses a neutral tone, the article does not try to convince or persuade readers to believe a specific opinion. No viewpoints are over represented or underrepresented.

All links form the article works, and the link is targeted to the references. Most links are archived copy of official documents or fact sheets, which are appropriate and reliable.

People have several peer-review on the talk page, and also the suggestion of moving the table from the first section. Several external links are modified based on the edit summary left on talk page, writers worked together to improve the article quality. The article has been rated as Stub-Class on the project’s quality scale. And the article is part of the WikiProject Environment. However, the article has not yet received a rating on the project‘s importance scale.

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Article evaluation for Island ecology:

The article describes the general idea of island ecology, how it differs from a mainland ecology, and how species survive and adapt on the islands. The article also talks about human influences on some island ecology and island conservation.

A neutral tone has been used in the article, no convincing sentence is found in the article.

Some claims are missing citations, such as "Trophic cascades" section. And some citations are from articles decades ago, new information and new research result can be added to the article.

Citations are reliable since most of the citations are from peer-reviewed articles.

There is not much talking going on the talk page, there is a great room for improvement for this article.

relevant source:


 * Microbial island biogeography: isolation shapes the life history characteristics but not diversity of root-symbiotic fungal communities, describes the diversity of fungal on island ecology does not have a huge different compare to mainland ecosystem.
 * Island ecology and evolution: challenges in the Anthropocene: The journal provide more information on how the island ecology could be affected under the threat of climate change, habitat lost, invasion species and disease.

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From Article Island ecology:

Hunting
Many large animals on islands have been hunted to extinction by humans. A well-known example is the dodo, once found on the island of Mauritius. It evolved to become large, flightless and docile, and was subsequently driven to extinction by humans and introduced predators.

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I fixed some grammar mistake on Article：Island ecology.

Peer Review 1: Phosphorus cycle
I reviewed the draft written by Eggball2333:

The Phosphorus and Eutrophication section introduces the mechanism of eutrophication caused by phosphorus, and the Wetland section explained the advantage and disadvantage of wetland absorb phosphorus. The cited picture in Phosphorus and Eutrophication explained the phosphorus cycle very well. Both sections are well organized and easy to understand. The length of the paragraph matches the importance of the topic, and a neutral tone is used. 4 reliable sources are used in total, which is good, but a few more sources could make the article better. After all, they are really nice paragraphs!

Peer Review 2: Rosa Rugosa
I reviewed the draft written by Maliks10:

It is a nice draft that describes the features of rosa rugosa and its history. The lead is clear, and the paragraphs can be easily understood. A neutral tone is used, and the structure is balanced. 3 sources are used in the draft, but some are from websites. A few cited pictures of rosa rugosa can be added to the article which will certainly help readers to identify the species. There are a few grammar mistakes that you can change:

"Each leaf is a elliptical in shape" should be "Each leaf is elliptical in shape "

"... in the United States for a long time that people have believe that it is native to New England" should be "... in the United States for a long time that people have believed that it is native to New England."

Over all, you really did a great job on this draft!

Human impact on island ecology
Nearly 75% of animal extinctions and 90% of birds extinctions happen on islands, and human activities have a great influence on island ecology. Island ecosystem has changed significantly in Anthropocene. Human influences come from disease, invasive species, climate change, hunting, and habitat modification mainly.

Disease accompanied with invasive species
Island populations have a lower genetic variability due to inbreeding depression, which makes the island populations have a weaker immune system compare to mainland populations. And island populations are more likely to be affected by the diseases brought by the invasive species. Rapid extinction of native species due to introduced disease has been detected around the world. In the Marquesas Islands, the local flycatchers have extinct due to malaria, however, the new introduced Marquesan reed warblers could resist malaria. The long-term absent of parasitism on island populations is another reason for their weak immune systems. On isolated islands, small host populations couldn't support variable parasites or other pathogens. Therefore, during the island species evolution history, the population did not expose to many parasites.

Terrestrial flora
Endemic species own narrow ecological niches will be affected by the increase of atmospheric temperature significantly. Islands plant species are more limited by habitat range compare to mainland plants. The low dispersal ability of certain endemic species will increase the probability of their extinction. It is difficult for plant species with narrow ecological niches to migrate into suitable habitat, they could be moved out of their climatic niche within few generations. In some Pacific Islands regions, cold climatic zones are disappearing due to climate change, which declines the suitable habitat for mountain species. A great number of endemic species could go extinct in few years. Habitats for tropical species are also shrinking due to the reduction of rainfall.

Terrestrial vertebrate fauna
Climate change could have a huge impact on endemic vertebrate fauna because the environmental temperature has a strong association with physiological functions of animal, for example, growth, movement, and reproduction. It could also alter the population dynamics of prey and predators. Generally, reptiles have a narrower temperature niche than other vertebrates, especially lizards. Lizards have specific temperature preference for different physiological functions. In a study of the herpetofauna of the Papuan Region, scholars found that around 35 species of frogs, lizards, and snakes have very small populations on islands summits, due to habitat loss caused by climate change. Frugivorous and nectarivores birds are also impacted by climate change. These species forage food on different islands, and the availability of food sources are affected by temperate and rainfall. Change in the alternation cycles could affect the population of these endemic birds.

Critiquing articles:
Now I know that almost every Wikipedia article is based on a reliable source, the unbiased opinion with a neutral tone and clean structure. Every Wikipedia would try to provide the most important information for the readers, giving a brief understanding of the topic. And a Wikipedia article is contributed by multi authors. For critiquing the article, I mainly focus on these features: a clean structure of the article, correct grammar, the unbiased opinion with a neutral tone, and multiple reliable sources. On choosing the topic to add in the article, I tried to add some important example of the topic. The sources should have credibility and important to mention, and the opinion should be unbiased.

Summarizing your contributions:
I added "Disease accompanied with invasive species" and "Climate change" part to the island ecology Wikipedia article. The "Climate change" part is separate to "Terrestrial flora" and "Terrestrial vertebrate fauna" part. I added these topics to make the article more specific, and these topics are important. The reader can get more useful information from the article. Besides, I fixed some grammar mistakes and make the article easier to understand.

Peer review:
We will check each other’s article step by step, from the structure of the article, whether the article can be easily understood, whether it has a neutral tone, and whether the sources are reliable. I fixed some grammar for my peers’ article and recommend them to add more sources for the article, for the credibility.

Feedback:
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Wikipedia generally:
I learned how to edit a Wikipedia article, and how to communicate with others through talk page, and how to write a good Wikipedia article together. The Wikipedia assignment requires an editing skill with a neutral tone and reliable source with credibility. The main purpose of the Wikipedia article is to explain the thing to the general audience, with no biases. In my field, topics like environment protection, climate change, and ecosystem, most people hear these things from news and media. Sometimes, there are misunderstandings on these topics, and Wikipedia can give the public a better understanding of these topics. Therefore, the sources we choose are very important. More people could be aware of environmental problems through Wikipedia, which could make our world better.