User:Radicchios/sandbox

E&EB 291L: April 29 updates
I found it challenging to find more information on specific lineages that I could add to Wikipedia: the information I found in textbooks tended to be vague and broad, while information in journal papers tended to be too specific.

I uploaded several images from the Peabody to Wikimedia Commons (here). I added some of these images to the pages I've been editing.

Most of the recent edits have been streamlining information to make it more concise and readable. All of these edits can be tracked on my contributions page here.

E&EB 291L: April 10 updates
I have updated and expanded the page on columella with as much information as I could find. That being said, there may be missing parts of phylogeny worth including that I am currently missing.

I've started to standardize and update headings on the remaining stub articles. This includes:


 * adding hatnotes that link back to Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles
 * breaking up content into headings under "Function" and "Anatomy"
 * adding more content directly tracing the evolution of the jaw and inner ear
 * adding references to texts and current journal articles

Next, I plan to continue adding references and start performing minor edits to the page on evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles.

All of these edits can be tracked on my contributions page here.

E&EB 291L: Final Project proposal
For my final project, I propose to edit one (or many) Wikipedia articles. This would involve expanding a stub-status article to a full Wikipedia page with complete and up-to-date citations, or updating an entire category of pages, performing moderate work several pages included in the category.

I am convinced that the following list of pages deserve special attention, particularly after studying the auditory system in class:

Evolution of the jaw/ inner ear
Jugal bone; Squamosal bone; Quadrate bone; Articular bone, Quadratojugal bone

Each of these pages is currently marked as a stub or are extremely short. I would expand these pages to trace evolution to some extant species and modern lineages. More images need to be included, and the reflists need heavy expansion. Since the information on these pages overlap, I would also find some way to link them all consistently to each other/related pages.

Columella (auditory system)

This page is especially sad. If there are no appropriate existing images on Wikimedia Commons, I would go source some public-domain images to include in the article.

Evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles

This page is lengthy and more or less complete. However, it deserves some grammar edits and re-organization of links. I would probably use the lede of this page as the linked page that holds all of the other linked pages together (if that makes sense).

Other pages
If nothing else to edit, there is a bounty of pages under Category:Vertebrate anatomy stubs. The following are also pages that deserve attention (but maybe not for a class final project):

Mammalian reproductive biology
Choriovitelline placenta

Placentation

Placentalia

Juno (protein)

Vitelline membrane

Misc
Rumination syndrome: merycism, currently written under human disorder. Consider expanding the "In other animals" section and edit the lede.

Development of the cerebral cortex: not currently written for the layperson.