User talk:Tonyfol

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

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Critique on a article: 'Stotting'
The article on stotting focuses primarily on giving possible explanations to the jumping behaviour of some mammals. Although many stories justifying this behaviour can make sense in terms of evolution and natural selection, the fact that none of the explanations has been proved makes the article fall into the speculative side of knowledge. Since none of the theories behind 'stotting' are accepted by the scientific community, the article should make emphasis on alternative hypothesis, such as 'stotting' being an spontaneous non-adaptive behaviour.

The article could easily improve by adding a 'History' section talking about when did people focused on this behaviour initially and who were the scientist pushing the field.

Tonyfol (talk) 22:58, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

Searching possible topics
The most appealing option to the moment is to extend the article on [Structural stability] by adding a section about ecology. Just as the talk page of the article mentions, the term is defined exclusively on mathematical terms and it lacks any indication on how structural stability has been applied to different fields of knowledge, such as ecology. Some of the sources that will help me on the construction of the section are 1 and 2 Tonyfol (talk) 18:31, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

Three potential subjects
Clonal interference

This is an article classified as stub with mid importance, and it is part of the WikiProject Evolutionary biology. I am interested in the article because I have previous experience with the subject and there is room for improvement in the article. The main contribution I am planning is a section about how clonal interference can be slowed down or accelerated due to selection of the first or the second mutation appearing. Two reliable sources are Lang 2011 and Tenaillon 2016. The disadvantages of this option are that it exists already and the main explanation of the subject is accurate for the most part.

Neurotransmitters determination/measurement

This option aims create an article talking about how to measure neurotransmitters, small molecules produced by neurons which enable flow of information across the nervous system. The measurements can be performed in different conditions, such as test tubes, tissue cultures and living organisms. There exists a broad interest in the function and characteristics of neurotransmitters, and this is reflected in the broad improvement that this wikipedia page goes thru. Nevertheless, there is lack of information on how these important molecules are detected and measured.

Since there are different sources, I can include some old ones and talk about the history of detection. I can include the methodologies used these days based on this review. And I can mention some state of the art techniques. I like this option because I am interested in the subject and I foresee that I would enjoy the research on the topic. A possible downside is that the main neurotransmitter article contains a section called 'Identification', which very briefly touches the subject of this new article; if it is the case that I should expand that section instead of creating an article, I don't know how confident I am to get involve in a major article as 'Neurotransmitters'

[Structural stability]

As I mentioned before, I plan to add a section about ecology. Just as the talk page of the article mentions, the term is defined exclusively on mathematical terms and it lacks any indication on how structural stability has been applied to different fields of knowledge, such as ecology. Some of the sources that will help me on the construction of the section are 1 and 2. I like this option due to the relevance to my PhD program. The major problem is the novelty of this terms and the not so great amount of sources I foresee to have.

Tonyfol (talk) 15:04, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

THIS SOUNDS GOOD, ANTHONY. GO FOR IT. EricGrunwald (talk) 21:46, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Peer Review from Soypark
Good Parts:

[1] Definition part is strong and compelling. You mention a variety of useful information, including concept definition, interchangeable terminology, and historical background.

[2] Categorization within "2. Types of Ecological Stability" is persuasive. It is great to divide the concept into "dynamical stability" and "structural stability." Also, it is a wonderful idea that you will provide the explanation of "Differences between dynamical and structural stability" later in your article. Please keep going!

[3] It is very useful to read related articles in "See also" section. You linked 7 relatable Wiki articles and it may help greatly for the readers to understand your topic much deeply. Especially, the web page of "keystone species" was interesting to read and helped greatly to broaden my perspective on the topic of ecological stability.

Parts to be Improved:

[1] It would be nice if a history part is newly created in your article. The definition part is quite confusingly mixed with writing about historical background, from "The concept of ecological stability emerged" to "proposed to clarify the subject is to replace ecological stability with more specific terms, such as constancy, resilience and persistence." Could you consider creating a new section, named "History" and adding some 'meats' in that section? Also, could you merge "4. History of Ecological Stability Thought" into this newly created part? Those two writings are talking about similar contents and overlap each other.

[2] Are there any sub-categorization under "2.2. Structural Stability"? How about adding sub-categories to balance with "2.1. Dynamical Stability"? More specifically, 2.1. Dynamical Stability contains three subcategories, including "Stationary, Stable, Transient, and Cyclic points," "Numerical Stability," and "Sign Stability." However, "2.2. Structural Stability" has no subcategories at all.

Soypark (talk) 20:31, 4 May 2017 (UTC)