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External Review
Hi Tmeiss - My name is Jolie, and I'm the Project Coordinator for the WikiProject Limnology & Oceanography team. Your external review for your article on Dactylis is posted below. If you have any questions about your review, or would like to clarify anything, please feel free to let me know by posting a message on my talk page and I'll pass it along to your external reviewer. Thanks, and all the best as you wrap up your Wikipedia editing assignment!

EXTERNAL REVIEW - Hi Tmeiss, I’m a limnologist and biogeochemist from southern Ontario, Canada. My research mostly focuses on carbon movement and transformation in aquatic systems – although my undergraduate degree was in botany, so I have a little bit of experience with plants!

You’ve done a really good job expanding the article on Dactylis. The section on the ecology of the genus is a great addition to the Wikipedia page, and is very well referenced. You’ve also made some nice edits to the cytology and lead sections. I just have a few comments for you to consider as you finish up the final version of your article:


 * One very valuable addition to Wikipedia is to add links to other Wikipedia articles wherever possible, so that readers can quickly and easily access more information. You can add links throughout the article, for example, to the Wikipedia pages on meadows and invasive species.
 * You state in the lead section that Dactylis is found throughout the world and is considered an invasive species. However, every species is a native species somewhere – so I think this sentence needs to be clarified to state where the natural range of Dactylis is, and where it is considered invasive.
 * In the ecology section of your article, clarify again that Dactylis is commonly known as orchard grass right in the first sentence.
 * In the ecology section, I recommend rewriting the third and fourth sentences to read “They are a food source for many species of insects and birds, which consume the seeds, leaves, and roots.”
 * In the first two sentences of the cytology section, I think it would be more accurate to state “The taxa shows several different levels of polyploidy, including tetraploid, diploid, and hexaploidy.”

Best wishes as you wrap up the rest of your Wikipedia assignment! I look forward to reading the final version of the page!

JoGDelta (talk) 01:30, 24 April 2021 (UTC)