User talk:JMelecio

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Article Review: Brown bear
Having looked over the Brown Bear article, I found some interesting things. First its Edit history seems to have a minor series of edits of the Eurasian BB done by a Wikipedian named Daniel whose account no longer exist and has had some of those revisions undone with little to no notes on why either change or reversion occurred. Otherwise, the article has been pretty inactive, with about a dozen edits, most of them minor in the last month.

The Talk page is likewise uneventful, although I did learn that brown bears both existed and went extinct in the Vatican. There was also some discussion as to how to classify its endangered nature as some breeds are very common but some like the grizzly are endangered.

As a fun fact, the Grizzly Bears talk page is about 2/3'rds the length of the entire brown bear article.

I find it's a very well balanced article, although as with the nature of this project it is sorely missing in the physiology section, particularly in that of hibernation, which I find to be interesting. It is a very neutral article both in terms of biological science but also in the very in-depth culture section that makes up the bottom 3rd of the article. It goes into brief detail about body size, but it's all very general information and I would not mind adding in some information for some of the facts.


 * Jorge, thanks for your observations. The Brown bear article is pretty rich!  I like the table of subspecies.  I note that hibernation is mentioned as part of the behavior section, which deals in part with seasonality, but this does of course leave you with plenty of room to provide information on seasonal variability in energetics.  I will assign this article to you for further work.Rico.schultz (talk) 15:26, 28 March 2016 (UTC)