Wikipedia:Peer review/Haemaphysalis leporispalustris/archive1
Haemaphysalis leporispalustris[edit]
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I've listed this article for peer review because I want my article to improve substantially. I believe some of the sections may be lacking and I am unsure if the opening at the top is correct. Please give me instruction on how I may improve this and what I need to improve other sections or if there is any section that needs to be added.
Thanks, EmilyAnneWood1995 (talk) 05:35, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
Hi there; interesting choice of topic. Here are some things you may want to look into improving:
- "H. leporispalustris is known to have one of the largest distributions for a New World." What does this mean? A New World tick?
- wood tick is a disambiguation link. Which wood tick do you mean?
- The article currently lacks a description section. We really need to see a description of the morphology of the species.
- We also lack a taxonomy section. This would include details about the species's original description, any change of name/taxonomic controversies, an etymology of the name if possible, any synonyms and any information about its taxonomic placement.
- Could you be more specific than "jackrabbit"? That just links back to hare.
- I'd recommend referring to the species as Haemaphysalis leporispalustris rather than as a "rabbit tick".
- "Strains of Rickettsia rickettsii, the disease aften of Rocky Mountain spotted fever have been found in the rabbit tick." I do not understand this.
- A distribution section, detailing the kind of habitats in which the species is found as well as its range, would be an excellent addition.
- Try to stick to the academic sources where possible!
- As you asked about the lead section: the lead should accurately summarise the rest of the article. As such, it should not contain any information not found in the rest of the article, and so does not normally need any references.
I've made a few edits to the article, and hopefully my suggestions will give you an indication of what you need to do next. You've done some excellent work on the article so far, and, with a bit more work, this could become a good article- even better, I think it would be Wikipedia's first ever good article on a species of tick (though we do have one on a mite.) If I can be of any help, you're welcome to contact me on my talk page or reply to me here. J Milburn (talk) 00:01, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
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- Please expand the lead to conform with guidelines at Wikipedia:Lead. The article should have an appropriate number of paragraphs as is shown on WP:LEAD, and should adequately summarize the article.[?]
- This article has no or few images. Please see if there are any free use images that fall under the Wikipedia:Image use policy and fit under one of the Wikipedia:Image copyright tags that can be uploaded. To upload images on Wikipedia, go to Special:Upload; to upload non-fair use images on the Wikimedia Commons, go to commons:special:upload.[?]
- If there is not a free use image in the top right corner of the article, please try to find and include one.[?]
- Please ensure that the article has gone through a thorough copyediting so that it exemplifies some of Wikipedia's best work. See also User:Tony1/How to satisfy Criterion 1a.[?]
You may wish to browse through User:AndyZ/Suggestions for further ideas.
- Haemaphysalis leporispalustris links to 1 disambiguation page (fix links).