User talk:Zikynsk

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Hello, Zikynsk, 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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Assignment 2 - peer introduction
Hello I'm in your class and just trying to get my number of edits up so I can use the move feature. I think this will do it? Anyways, here's a link to an article from the Journal of Med and Vet Mycology about your fungus causing cysts. It's from 1990 so I wouldn't use it, but it might be a good place to start off. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2380882

--Wezck (talk) 18:27, 23 September 2016 (UTC)

Peer Review
Hi Zikynsk! Just wanted to leave you some feedback on your article.

I notice you're missing a taxonomy section from your paper, so I would recommend adding one. One of your sources, ''Occurrence of fossil bamboo pollen and a fungal conidium of Tetraploa cf. aristata in Upper Miocene deposits of Józefina (Poland)'' (Worobiec, Worobiec, Gedl, 2009) has a brief section that talks about it, so you can pull information from there. It also references other articles that may be useful for finding information that you could put into this category. There are also some details about habitat and growth that you may have missed, such as the fact that the fungus is a saprophyte! I don't think you mention it anywhere, but it would be good to mention it in the growth section, or even the habitat section as it would explain why it is found in habitats that would have a lot of decaying matter.

You have a very thorough morphology section. I especially like that you have information on the different forms that it can have. You might want to give a brief one sentence explanation for each as general readers may be unfamiliar with what these words mean, and this would save them from having to go to the Wiki pages for each of those terms. If you end up having a small paragraph for each one, I would consider making each of those into separate subheadings within that section.

I find that the human pathogenicity section is always one of the most interesting, so I would recommend expanding it. Some additional information that you can cover: Are there any risk factors that predispose individuals to infection? By what mechanism does it cause disease? How does it develop? You have bullet points indicating the reports of infections by your fungus, so I would look into these further to find the details of these cases. By looking at specific case studies, you can tell the story of your fungus from initial infection to its progression, which I think would make for an interesting read.

Good luck, and happy writing!

Sylbanik (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2016 (UTC)