User:Ryan.lou/sandbox

Article Evaluation

Marine bacteriophage

Overall, the material covered in this Wikipedia article on Marine bacteriophages matches the article topic in that it covers how it was discovered (electron microscopy and epifluorescence microscopy) and why it is important to the biogeochemical cycling that goes on in the ocean at various depths. Furthermore, the ideas presented in the material do not exhibit any biases as it does mention the major nutrient cycles in the ocean (C, N and P) and cell death in a easy-to-understand manner, while still matching the relatively few, but still very relevant and working references listed in the "References" section.

However, this Wikipedia article can be updated with more relevant information, especially about how marine viruses can affect sediment biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus) as it does mention that these "exact influences are currently not understood". This can be partially explained by Pan et al.'s Correlation between viral production carbon mineralization under nitrate reducing conditions in aquifer sediment which the presence of viruses could affect nitrate-reducing bacteria in the sediment. Also, discussion in the "Talk" section dates back to 2014, where a user asking for an explanation about the ocean's biological pump, a basic oceanographic concept. Furthermore, the last sentence in the "Carbon cycle" section appears to be mostly copy and pasted a figure caption from the paper it cites (from our professor, Dr. Suttle).

This Wikipedia article is part of WikiProject Viruses, and is of High-importance, but rated as Start-class, which is about in the middle of the rating scale. It differs from what we learned in class so far since we focused more on methods, rather than go into how it affects the biogeochemical cycles in the ocean.

~

Articles I would like to edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics

- Add a section on the effects of microplastics on microbes (picoeukaryotes, cyanobacteria) since it primarily covers zooplankton and larger marine organisms.

- How they can act as habitats for microbes (adhesion + biofilms)

- Adsorption or leaching of pollutants from microplastic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritivore

- Expand the section on Marine detritivores as there isn't much information about them

- There is a lot of detritus that comes from the surface and mid depths of the ocean

- Microbes can decompose organic matter and/or remineralize nitrate and phosphate