User:TayToTheRenee/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
 * Crab-eating Rat


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very short. It does not include behavior or diet, which is very important.


 * Sources
 * https://eol.org/pages/111300/data

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Yellow-nosed cotton rat


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article needs more information about this species.


 * Sources
 * Davis, Russell, and O. G. Ward. “A Vacant ‘Microtus Niche’ Now Occupied by the Yellow-Nosed Cotton Rat (Sigmodon Ochrognathus) on an Isolated Mountain in Southeastern Arizona.” Journal of Mammalogy, vol. 69, no. 2, 1988, pp. 362–365. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1381387.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Tawny-bellied cotton rat


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is way too short and needs more information.


 * Sources
 * Stangl, Frederick B. “First Record of Sigmodon Fulviventer in Texas: Natural History and Cytogenetic Observations.” The Southwestern Naturalist, vol. 37, no. 2, 1992, pp. 213–214. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3671674.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Toltec cotton rat


 * Article Evaluation
 * Only about 3 sentences long. Needs loads of work.


 * Sources
 * No sources

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Allen's cotton rat


 * Article Evaluation
 * very short


 * Sources
 * James R. Bowers, "Resting Metabolic Rate in the Cotton Rat Sigmodon," Physiological Zoology 44, no. 3 (Jul., 1971): 137-148.