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February 15th Edit Assignment
On Saturday, we will be making edits to current Wikipedia articles. The selected articles must be relevant to our course and edits can address content and structure. I ask that you make 5 edits to the articles you select. Edits can include:


 * Grammar correction
 * Organization and structure improvement
 * Clarification to ideas
 * Links to internal and external pages
 * Additional citations

I strongly encourage one edit to be the use of links and another the addition of an appropriate citation. Be sure to complete the Edit Summary for each edit. All edits should be completed by 11:59 PM February 15th.

Indicate what changes you make on the course talk page. Specifically state the page and section edited and why you made the change. Be sure to sign your post with four tildes (~ ~ ~ ~). Each edit can be stated in bullet form. Resources for specific editing questions can be located on our Wikipedia course page. You can also ask for assistance via the IRC chat.

Happy Editing! B.J.Carmichael (talk) 17:18, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits - Rebecca Lambert
Human impact on the environment page
 * Expanded on the effects of biodiesel on the environment

2006 North American heat wave page
 * Removed the line "A 130 degree temperature (54 °C) was reported at a remote farm in South Dakota" because it is false

2013 Nariño earthquake page
 * Edited punctuation errors
 * Added citation for a line

2000 Mozambique flood page
 * Added an inline link to cyclones

Note: could not figure out how to sign it w/o it showing up in the real article

--Rlambert1893 (talk) 01:08, 16 February 2014 (UTC)Rebecca!

Saturday Edits - Brandt Becnel
I edited Parasitoid in the following ways:
 * capitalized all section headers
 * modified structure in some areas for clarity
 * corrected punctuation in several areas
 * added picture of Apocephalus borealis
 * added link for the picture

Note: I did not sign all of my edits and was unable to find a way to correct this.

Bjbecnel (talk) 16:09, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits - Rhiannon Ballard
For this assignment I edited:

–to include a reference about the number of drowning deaths attributed to the hurricane and also added information about the drowning death in Georgia.
 * The Tropical Storm Lee page

–Deleted the phrase “and was later confirmed to be dead” from a sentence about a man drowning because it was redundant. –to bold the “United States” heading in the “Preparations” section in order to make it stand out, separating it from the list of states. –changed the punctuation of a comma to a colon for grammatical reasons. –Added an “oxford comma” to the Species Diversity page for clarity.
 * The Hurricane Isaac page
 * The Species Diversity page,

I am unsure how or where to sign edits. Rhiannon ballard (talk) 17:12, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits - Geoffrey Place
I edited the following pages as such: -I added an internal link to pheromones -I added an internal link to aquaculture -Edited sentence structure to make idea more concise -Edited sentence structure to add clarity
 * Mountain pine beetle
 * Invasive species
 * Eichhornias crassipes
 * Myriophyllum spicatum

-Added and internal link to monoecious

I was unsure how to sign edits.

Rplace1 (talk) 18:44, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits - Nathan Babb
I edited the page *Rim fire the following ways:
 * expanded 'U.S.' to United States
 * switched the word order in a sentence for clarification
 * added a semicolon and added a sentence for clarification
 * added a new paragraph in the 'Forest and park issues' section regarding logging
 * added a link to a news article for the aforementioned paragraph

Nbabb2 (talk) 20:32, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits- Jennifer Parent
I edited the page Cyclone Yasi by:
 * added an external link to an ABC News article that explains the formation of cyclones

For the Wikipedia page, Sinkhole, I made these changes:
 * added an internal link for Texas
 * inserted citation for a sentence that was lacking one
 * deleted a phrase that made the sentence confusing

Lastly, for the Wikipedia Page 2006 North American heat wave, I:
 * added an internal link for humidity

I was not sure how to sign edits. So I simply put my signature after my edit summary description.

Saturday Edits - Brad Landry
I edited the article Standard Project Hurricane in the following ways.


 * Reworded a sentence in the History section for added clarification

I edited the article Babbs Switch fire in the following ways.


 * Added a citation for the introductory sentence
 * Changed the wording in a second paragraph sentence
 * Added a picture of a memorial at the site of the fire
 * Removed a link to a page that no longer exists

Saturday Edits- Ben Alpert
For this assignment, I edited Cyclone Phailin in the following ways
 * Nepal	                       Removed “completely” from festival sentence as superfluous
 * Jharkand	               Made “outerbands” two words (outer bands)
 * Meteorological History 	       Removed “then” from sentence as superfluous

I also edited Cyclone Larry in the following ways
 * QLD Rural Fire Service		Removed “sadly” for sake of neutrality
 * Meteorological History		Changed AEST to Australian Eastern Standard Time for clarification

Bda1993 (talk) 00:24, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits- Isabella Hicks
I edited the following pages:

Reforestation

-added a source from the Forestry department website to a piece of information in the “for harvesting” section

-added source from Green Collar Association to info in the “for harvesting” section

-removed broken link to nonexistent Kulun Qi page in the “for climate change mitigation” section

Mountain pine beetle

-removed broken link to nonexistent Western Pine Beetle page in the “management techniques” section

Control of fire

-removed broken link to nonexistent “Leslie Aiello” page in the “changes to behavior and diet” section

Isabellahicks (talk) 23:21, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits - Brittani Johnston
I edited the article Tubastrea in the following ways:


 * Rephrased the end of a sentence for grammatical reasons in the Habitat section
 * Added an internal link in the Reproduction and Growth section
 * Removed incorrectly used commas to improve grammar in many sections
 * Added missing linking verb 'are' in Reproduction and growth
 * Added an internal link invasive species to Habitat section

Unsure how to sign edits. Apologies for any inconvenience. Also because of nitpicking grammatical nature will further peruse article for errors.

Additional Edits: In article Orange Cup Coral:
 * Added Habitat section
 * Added references for Habitat section
 * Added External link for reference
 * Created Invasive Introduction and Range section
 * Merged Distribution and Invasive Introduction and Range sections
 * Added internal links

P.S. This was fun.

Bantol13795 (talk) 00:24, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Saturday Edits - William Melancon

 * 1) Fuel model (wildfire) grammatical edits to improve readability of work, examples: changed fuelbed to fuel bed, added hyphens to subhumid and wildland to increase readability.
 * 2) Fuel model (wildfire) added links to improve flow of information.  Example: added link for “Wildfire”. “National Fire Danger Rating System” and slash, timber, grass, shrub fuel type pages.
 * 3) Fire suppression.  Added references to section “Austrailia”, citing government sites for each of the major fire services.
 * 4) Fire suppression.  Made grammatical edits to increase readability in “Canada” section, example: changed “Canada has about 4,020,000 km² of forest land, of which the Boreal forest-characterized by its predominance of coniferous trees-makes up nearly three-quarters.” to “Canada contains approximately 4,020,000  square kilometers of forest land.  75 percent of this is Boreal Forest, made up of primarily coniferous trees”
 * 5) Controlled burn, added links to improve article completeness. Example: added link for Florida Department of Forestry, Longleaf Pine Forest
 * 6) Introduced species, edited introduction to show distinction between invasive species and non native species, also made minor grammatical alterations.

Edit summary Log:

Edit summary: “added links to other pages such as "wildfire" made some grammatical corrections”

Edit Summary: “/* Australia */ added references, government sites for each of the major fire services and their responsibilities.”

Edit Summary: “/* Canada */ minor grammatical corrections”

Edit Summary:/* Forest use */ added links to Florida Department of Forestry and Longleaf Pine Forest to improve article completeness.

Edit summary: Minor edits to introduction to improve clarity. Added distinction between non native species and invasion species to the introduction to accentuate difference. added link to invasive species in introduction.

William Melancon (talk) 22:06 (04:05 zulu), 15 February 2014

Saturday edits - Parker Schmidt
My edits were to the wikipedia page Dendroctonus frontalis commonly known as the southern pine beetle. I Schmidt1510 (talk) 04:21, 16 February 2014 (UTC)Parker Schmidt
 * added a picture of this insect
 * added a a text edit which specified the monetary value of the damage done by the southern pine beetle
 * made an internal link to the wikipedia page, invasive species. This link is within my text edit.
 * referenced where I got the information for my text edit
 * added an external link to a page which further describes southern pine beetles
 * added another category to which the southern pine beetle could be grouped under, invasive species

Saturday Wikipedia Edits - Faith Meyers
Stone moroko page
 * Fixed a run on sentence, corrected a few more grammatical mistakes

Huttonella bicolor page
 * Added in-text link(aperture)

Typhoon Oliwa page
 * Added in-text link
 * Added citation for a line

Biscuit Fire page
 * grammatical correction

Edits made by Shyrece Celestine
Black Sunday (1955)
 * Added link to the word 'brigades'.

September 2005 California wildfire
 * I added a link to the words 'brush fire'.

Cabo Tamar oil spill
 * I changed a few things around for clarification. I turned Jule to June, replaced 12,000 t with 12,000 tons, and 64,000 load to 64,000 ton load. I also added the name of the country to which Talcahuano belonged (Chile). I also added a link the 'Chile'.

--Shyrece.C (talk) 06:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Note: not sure how to sign real article?

107.7.3.54 (talk) 05:15, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Edits made by Eileen DeLeo

 * 1. creation of link to tropical depression within Hurricane Gustav article
 * 2. creation of link to tropical storm within Hurricane Gustav article
 * 3. creation of link to Grand Isle within Hurricane Gustav article
 * 4. grammatical correction in Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
 * 5. technical specification in Timeline of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Editing questions

 * Sign your posts (with 4 ~'s) when you are editing a Talk page. The Talk page of an article is where you can inform other Wikipedians of edits you have made and why. On a User Talk page, you can directly interact with the editor and address disagreements, exchange ideas, etc. You do not have to sign edits on the article page, but you should be logged in when making edits.
 * Only the first word of a Section header title should be capitalized unless there are proper nouns. For example, "Habitat Requirements" should be "Habitat requirements."


 * Overall, edits look great! I hope you are all becoming more comfortable with editing Wikipedia! B.J.Carmichael (talk) 18:58, 20 February 2014 (UTC)