User talk:Salinas413/Temporal plasticity

Nia's Review
I would start by saying that I like the order/structure of the article, and it looks nice/organized. One edit I would suggest would be to define what some of the scientific words included mean so that "non-scientific" readers can understand the article better. Another edit you could make would be to simplify the sentence structures or just to use simple wording. I would also like to see the climate change section after you've finished it/added more detail to it. I think that the climate change section will be interesting and add some good insight to the article. You could also add some images to the sections as well to help assist with explaining the concepts. Also where it says article draft at the top I would just change that to "Temporal Plasticity" or whatever title that you chose just to make it look more organized. Overall I think you did a great job! Curlygirl897 (talk) 00:14, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Kenneth's Review: This is a well-written article and I believe you could still add more information to the morphological and climate change section. Additionally, you can add reference links to explain some terminologies/concepts which might be difficult for non-experts to understand. In the Evolution section, the spacing between the two paragraphs should be reduced. Finally, it would be great to add few images to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ogwu94 (talk • contribs) 03:37, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Response to reviewers
Thank you for the feedback! After further discussion with Kasey I have decided to shift directions to avoid overlap with another existing article. Instead of focusing solely on temporal plasticity I will be adding content to the phenotypic plasticity page. My new draft will be located on the phenotypic plasticity page between Evolution and Climate Change (or as a subset of evolution). I will primarily address the difference between reversible and irreversible changes caused through plasticity, explain the mechanisms behind these changes (with some examples, and then discuss which changes are more likely in plants/animals and highly variable/less variable environments. Salinas413 (talk) 01:10, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Deva's review

This seems very useful for basic to advanced readers. I believe the draft seems restructuring here, but the concept for reversible and irreversible phenotypic changes is very suitable, both in case of animals and plants. The only points I want to suggest is to add some pictures (if possible) or examples (based on animals or plants) that could help for the further description. Overall, the article seems very promising. Great job! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karkataceace (talk • contribs) 19:45, 8 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the advice - based on these comments and Kasey's comments I have restructured the article to have subheaders that divide irreversible and reversible plasticity, as well as separate the "exceptions" into their own subheading. Content is also rearranged so that each paragraph has a similar flow, starting with the overall definition, followed by environmental drivers, typical phenotypic changes in response, and finally specific examples. Hopefully this allows for a broad to narrow flow. I have also added more specific examples. I did not add pictures since I am adding to an existing page and I feel that the phenotypic plasticity page has enough. However, I did make sure to link many of my examples so that pictures will appear when the reader hovers over the name and a picture will pop up. Salinas413 (talk) 19:00, 11 December 2022 (UTC)