User talk:SootySalamander

A kitten for you!
hi!!

Anoukbraun (talk) 18:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC) 

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Hello, SootySalamander, and welcome to Wikipedia! My name is Ian and I work with Wiki Education; I help support students who are editing as part of a class assignment.

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Hierochloe odorata Article Peer Review
General Notes

- Article has clear section headings

- Flagged as "needs additional citations for verification" in 2009. May not be applicable.

- There are opportunities for the author to dig more into sections that were written previously by other users (i.e. the uses/traditions).

- Overall, needs more sources.

Ecology

- Noticed that the author consistently used Reference #9 in the first half of this section. There may be benefits to finding more sources that support each of those sentences.

- Repetition of species name. May be able to cut down and rephrase (i.e. in fifth sentence, change to "The associated plants are through to be major inhibitors of growth."

- May add a small section about primary predators. Could be in list format in a box outside of the primary text (may want to see if there's a template from another article to mimic).

- Hyperlink "Grammivores", define in the text, or replace with "herbivores"

- Split last sentence into two sentences: one about grazers (if not adding separate section) and about on the chemical Coumarin/other deterrents. May be able to add one or two more sentences about the effects of Coumarin or where it is produced in the plant.

Propagation

- Similarly to the Ecology section, Reference #12 is primarily used throughout this section. The author may benefit from including more sources.

- May want to revise the fourth sentence. Since it is short, it can potentially be combined with the third sentence. IC.Student (talk) 00:52, 10 April 2024 (UTC)IC.Student

IC.Student (talk) 19:06, 2 April 2024 (UTC)