User talk:Dsarah15

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Hello, Dsarah15, 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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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:31, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

The Field of Aquatic Science

Hi — you recently created the article The Field of Aquatic Science. There already exists an article with a similar title, Aquatic Science. Can you comment (here or on your article talk page) whether these overlap in topic, and whether both articles should therefore be kept? Thanks, -- DoubleGrazing (talk) 08:50, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

"The Field of Aquatic Science" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect The Field of Aquatic Science. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 October 31#The Field of Aquatic Science until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Elmidae (talk · contribs) 20:15, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Your draft

Hi. I moved your draft back to User:Dsarah15/sandbox. "The Field of Aquatic Sciences" isn't an appropriate title for a Wikipedia article, and an article on aquatic sciences already exists. I recommend that you revist the Moving work out of the sandbox training module and focus on adding content to an existing article.

I also linked to the Editing Wikipedia brochure. You should check out pages 7-9 for more of a sense of how a Wikipedia article should be formatted. You also need to improve the sources you're using - you should focus on peer reviewed literature and books from scholarly publishers. It's also very important that you ensure that everything you add is in your own words. A lot of your phrasing is very close to what's used in your sources - changing a few words isn't enough if the structure of the sentences is preserved. Please check out this guideline: Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing.

If you need more help, please leave me a message on my talk page - User talk:Ian (Wiki Ed). All the best moving forward. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 14:41, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Review for "Aquatic Science" page additions

Hi Dsarah15, great job adding information on the aquatic sciences to Wikipedia! You’ve made a big contribution to this page by adding a lot of great information and pictures. I have a few comments and suggestions to help improve your contribution to the Aquatic Sciences page that I’m basing off of the version at this link.

Some general comments

• Wherever possible, add in links to other Wikipedia pages to improve cross-referencing. For an example of what this could look like, take a look at the aquatic ecosystem Wikipedia page. I’ve made note of a few examples in the lead and oceanography sections below, but there are a number of places throughout your page where a link could be inserted.
• You’ve added a lot of information to this page – to improve the flow and help make it more readable, break the text in some of the sections into a number of shorter paragraphs.

Lead section

• Add in links to the Wikipedia pages for hurricanes, rip currents, the Atlantic Ocean, global oceanic change, drinking water, oceanography, and limnology.
• There are some places where commas would improve the flow of the text:

1. “to understand how physical processes, such as hurricanes or rip currents, affect organisms in the Atlantic Ocean.”
2. “They can also work to tackle more local issues, such as trying to understand why a drinking water supply in a certain area is polluted.”

• I would recommend combining the two sentences in the last paragraph in this section into one sentence.

Oceanography

• Add in links to other Wikipedia pages wherever you can. For instance, ocean circulation (to the page on ocean currents, and/or thermohaline circulation), seafloor, seawater, eddies, gyres, etc.
• You switch between seawater and sea water – I recommend going with seawater, because this is what Wikipedia seems to use in other oceanographic pages.
• The sentence “Oceanography is a field with many fields” is repetitive – maybe rephrase as “Oceanography is interdisciplinary”

Limnology

• In the sentence that starts, “For example, an ecologist specializing in ecology could…” I think you may have meant to say “a limnologist specializing in ecology could…”

Aquatic environments

• Some sentences in this section require a reference:

1. Humans use surface waters and their inhabitants in order to process our waste products.
2. Today, more than 40% of medicines are derived from aquatic plants and animals.
3. Moreover, aquatic wildlife are an important source of food for many people.
4. Phytoplankton are an important class of aquatic plant and should be included in the discussion of aquatic plants in this section.

Aquatic animals

• Remove “Thankfully” at the start of the fifth sentence.
• In the second last sentence, change “PH” to “pH”.

World Aquatic Animal Day

• Capitalize “world aquatic animal day” at the end of the first sentence.
• Add a link to the Lewis and Clark Law School.
• Add a reference for the statement “World Aquatic Animal Day was created on April 3rd, 2020 as a way to raise awareness for these often forgotten animals”
• Perhaps make this a subsection of the “Aquatic animals” section?

Great work on these edits Dsarah15! If you have any questions about this review, please get in touch. JoGDelta (talk) 03:38, 30 November 2020 (UTC)