Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Behavioral Ecology (Joan Strassmann)/2013 Assignment 9

WikiProject Assignment 9 Nominate for Good Article, Link In

Behavioral Ecology, Biology 372, Teacher: Strassmann, TAs: Adu-Oppong, Scott, Sukhum

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In this assignment you will nominate 3 entries by other students that are not in your group but are in the class.

When is it due? Thursday 14 Nov. 2012 11:59 PM

What is it worth? It is worth 100 points out of the 700 total for the entire Wikipedia assignment.

What exactly do I turn in? You turn in a document on Blackboard named <lastnamefirstname>Wiki14Nov with the following:

1. Your name.
2. The honor code.
3. Names and links to the 10 entries that you visit and change, adding links to your entry as appropriate, also modifying the text as needed to make the link relevant. (40 points)
4. A paragraph on your opinions of the 5 Good and Featured articles you have looked at. Compare to yours and what those articles have that is missing from yours. (15 points)
5. A paragraph or bullet point form of changes you made to YOUR article. (30 points)
   • This means adding sections, citations and additional information. If you have two articles we suggest you concentrate on one of them for this assignment.
6. Three new articles you have supported for Good Article, can be from the class or elsewhere (we recommend to stay within articles in the class a list can be found on the main course page). Once you do this, keep visiting the site to be sure your nomination sticks. You can also modify those articles to bring them up to Good Article status. They may need help in areas not directly relevant to behavior, for example. By now you should be familiar with reading the refereed literature. This is where improvements should come from. (15 points)

What do I do?

1. With this assignment, you keep modifying and adding to your previous work. You add links. You evaluate other work.
2. You also make it more part of the fabric of knowledge by visiting other sites and adding links to your entry at the other site. Do this for 10 entries, so you will have those 10 links into your site. Apparently there are not likely to be 10 entries that are close to your material that are Good Articles or Featured Articles, so just find 10 other articles that can link to your area. They can be animals close to ones you wrote about, or topics. So, you could all put a link to your page from the Behavioral Ecology page, or the Evolution page. Do the same for Parental Care, Parent-Offspring Conflict, or Sexual Selection. The important thing is to add links from elsewhere to your page.
3. Find 5 articles as close as possible to your area that are Good Articles, or Featured Articles. Learn what they have that yours does not. Write a paragraph for Blackboard that describes what you have found. Here is a list of all the Good Articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles/Natural_sciences#Biology_and_medicine

   • Here is a list of the Featured articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles/
   • Check out in particular these:

   • cattle egret
   • ruff
   • White-winged Fairywren

   • But your article will have much more behavior than these do.
   • In particular it might be useful to look at Good Articles and Featured Articles on animals.

4. Now you are more experienced as to what a Good Article is, fix your entry so it meets the GA standards. This may well involve adding content that is not behavior. This is fine. Here is the link to what a Good Article is: [[Wikipedia:Good articles|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_articles/]. Here is the link for a Featured Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_articles/
5. Nominate other entries for Good Article if you feel it has reached this stage, which it should have.
6. Think about looking through the list for other people’s entries that are nominated for Good Article and help them get to that level. Here is a link to getting things nominated and then supported for Good Article. Please both nominate and review, being careful to follow the standards. Only nominate another article in the class with the main author’s permission.

• You add nominations on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GAN#Biology_and_medicine
• For example, on of you could review the entry on animal coloration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_coloration/
• There are also others. Get your own entries on the list as soon as they are good enough, according to the Wikipedia standards mentioned above.

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