User:Tuburu/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

 * Silver Creek Fault
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

The article is short but has a good bit of information. However, some of the sources do not have working links. It is also missing a picture. More information about the fault and a picture could be added, as well as updated links.


 * Sources
 * Sources

Wentworth, C.M., Williams, R.A., Jachens, R.C., Graymer, R.W., and Stephenson, W.J., 2010, The Quaternary Silver Creek Fault beneath the Santa Clara Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, 2010-1010, 50 p.

https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1010/

Measuring Human-Induced Land Subsidence from Space, U.S. Geological Survey

https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs06903/

Option 2

 * Santa Teresa Hills

Article Evaluation

The article has very little information and has a "citation needed." Additional info could include geology, flora and fauna, history, how it is incorporated with the Santa Cruz Mountains and Santa Teresa County Park.


 * Sources
 * Sources

Edgar Herbert Bailey and Donald Lough Everhart, 1964, Geology and quicksilver deposits of the New Almaden district, Santa Clara County, California, USGS

https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/0360/report.pdf

GEOLOGIC MAPS AND STRUCTURE SECTIONS OF THE SOUTHWESTERN SANTA CLARA VALLEY AND SOUTHERN SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS, SANTA CLARA AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA

https://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/2002/2373/scvexpl.pdf

SANTA TERESA HILLS AND SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE MORGAN HILL QUADRANGLES

R.J. McLaughlin and E.J. Helley

https://pubs.usgs.gov/mf/2002/2373/sth-mhmap.pdf



Option 3

 * Peninsula leaf-toed gecko
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

The article has very little information besides that it is a "medium sized gecko" and a pretty detailed range. It could use expanding. Information could include description, behavior, reproduction and life cycle, diet, and conservation.


 * Sources
 * Sources

Peninsula Leaf-toed Gecko - Phyllodactylus nocticolus

https://californiaherps.com/lizards/pages/p.nocticolus.html

PENINSULAR LEAF-TOED GECKO

https://www.geckoweb.org/peninsular-leaf-toed-gecko.html



Option 4

 * Oak titmouse
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

This article has a good deal of information, but it does not make many citations, in-line or otherwise. It also is just one pretty hefty body of text, which could be better formatted into sections. Changes would mostly be on formatting.


 * Sources
 * Sources

Oak Titmouse Life History

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Oak_Titmouse/lifehistory



Option 5

 * California tiger salamander
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

This article has a really nice deal of information and citations, but it has a few "citation needed" notes. Its wording isn't very clear at times, too. Changes would mostly be on cleaning up wording and citations.


 * Sources
 * Sources

California Tiger Salamander Fact Sheet

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2013-08/documents/ca-tiger-salamander_0.pdf

California Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma californiense

https://californiaherps.com/salamanders/pages/a.californiense.html