User talk:Nikkitheloser

October 2018
Hello, I'm Oshwah. I noticed that you made a change to an article, Cricket (insect), but you didn't provide a source. I’ve removed it for now, but if you’d like to include a citation to a reliable source and re-add it, please do so! If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks.  ~Oshwah~  (talk) (contribs)   01:57, 12 October 2018 (UTC)

Crickets, chirping, lead sections
Hi, welcome, and I see you're finding your way gradually: all the best with that. The cricket article in fact already has a whole section on chirping, and there's a whole paragraph there on its dependence on temperature, cited to a major textbook. Wikipedia strongly prefers good solid sources to fun-fact-filled websites, and in this case the coverage is both good and sufficient (the article has been reviewed formally).

The other point that may be worth mentioning is that you added your materials to the lead section at the top of the article. The lead has one job only: to summarize what is already in the rest of the article. It is not the place for new material, cited or not. The way to add anything new is to read the article, check that the material is in fact missing, and to find a good place for it; and then to describe it quietly in encyclopedic tone, briefly, and to cite it to the best, most independent sources (ideally, not the person who discovered it, nor popularising news sites, nor blogs, etc).

To sum up: temperature dependence exists and is described properly in the article. It is quite a minor fact, all things cricket considered, and it was judged not to be worth talking about it in the lead section. If you think we should mention it briefly, you can propose that on the talk page, and editors will discuss it. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:14, 12 October 2018 (UTC)