Talk:Yellow-bellied toad

Orphaned references in Yellow-bellied toad

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Yellow-bellied toad's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AmphibiaWeb":

• From Apennine yellow-bellied toad: Dustin Guericke; John Cavagnaro (2012-04-03). "Bombina pachypus'". AmphibiaWeb. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
• From List of amphibians of Great Britain: "Hyla arborea". Amphibiaweb.org. 2010. Retrieved 2 December 2010.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 08:11, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Behavioral Ecology 2022

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2022 and 9 December 2022. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Anikavarsani (article contribs). Peer reviewers: B1deng, Jsun2148.

— Assignment last updated by Qazwsx1515 (talk) 21:07, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

Significant Addition

I added sections including Habitat & Distribution, Conservation, Reproduction & Life Cycle, Mating, Parental Care, and Protective Coloration & Behavior following Wikipedia's suggested formatting and have cited my peer-reviewed sources. Anikavarsani) 15:50, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by BlueMoonset (talk) 20:16, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
Article was only 3x expanded, well short of the 5x expansion; student nominator has not responded to pings, so closing as unsuccessful.

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• ... that the yellow-bellied toad can change its coloration significantly when moved to a different location? Source: Preißler K, Rodríguez A, Pröhl H. Evidence for coloration plasticity in the yellow‐bellied toad, Bombina variegata. Ecol Evol. 2021;11: 17557–17567. doi:10.1002/ece3.8391
  • Reviewed:

5x expanded by Anikavarsani (talk). Nominated by Anikavarsani (talk) at 18:48, 12 October 2022 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough: - Article has been expanded from about 4,100 characters to 12,641, a healthy and commendable expansion of a little over 3x but still short of the 5x threshold.
• Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: This article is in pretty good condition but it still needs significant (+~8,000-character) expansion to be eligible for DYK. Also, if you'd like to include a picture with this nomination, there are lots of lovely options from this page. Anikavarsani, are you interested in trying to continue expanding this article to hit the 5x threshold to make it eligible for DYK? —⁠Collin^{t c} 19:56, 13 October 2022 (UTC)

• Unless Anikavarsani signals their intent to take this article down the stretch, I think it's probably time to close this one up. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 22:09, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

• Yep, I'd be happy to give two more days for a response to let us know if Anikavarsani is interested in continuing to expand the article; otherwise, we can close this one on October 22. Thanks —⁠Collin^{t c} 03:07, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

I've left them a message on their talk page. If they still do not respond afterwards I think this can be closed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 03:26, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Anikavarsani, as there hasn't been any movement on the article in over a week, I'm unfortunately going to have to reject this article from Did You Know as it doesn't meet the 5× expansion criterion. I do hope you'll continue doing this good work on other articles as, though you didn't hit a 5× expansion, you did greatly improve the article over its earlier form. I hope to see another of your articles on DYK sometime soon! Kindly —⁠Collin^{t c} 16:43, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Disease

In the conservation section it is cited that disease spread is a great contributor of the decline of the species and I think it would be good to add information on what species/parasites the frog faces. From this source it seems that these frogs can get infected by chytrid fungus and Ranavirus. Qazwsx1515 (talk) 22:13, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

References

Peer Review

Edits made:

I reorganized the sections to follow the suggested format Professor Strassman posted. For example, it would make more sense to put the “Conservation” section after “Habitat and distribution” (rather than placing “Description” after “Habitat and distribution” like it was originally).

There are some minor grammar mistakes that I corrected in the lead section. I also edited some of the language in this area to make the message clearer.

The "Lifecyle" section only has one subsection: I just removed the heading and kept the “Tadpoles” subsection.

Suggested edits:

It might be better to avoid placing author names directly on the Wikipedia page (I looked specifically at the “Variation” section under the “Description” section), although this is just my opinion. Personally, I find that this places the focus of the article on the frog rather than the researchers. To give credit to the authors, just footnote it.

Under the “Conservation” section, I think it might be helpful to specify which diseases are affecting the Yellow-bellied toad. I know it may not mention any specifics in the primary sources, but it may be worth looking into.

I think the “Synonyms” section is usually in the Taxobox.

Putting the images within the text rather than at the end might enhance the reader’s experience.

Jsun2148 (talk) 19:53, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Peer Review

This article is very comprehensive and well-written! I do, however, feel like a few of the experimental processes (i.e., "This scientist did [blank]") and directly stating the findings instead. For example, under the variation header, you could make things more concise by just writing that they found eight variations of the species, and remove the "expanding on the three forms previously posited by Michalowski in 1958". I combined a few or sentences and also reworded/deleted some things under the parental care section to make things clearer and more concise. Finally, I added a bunch of hyperlinks to help future readers! B1deng (talk) 02:09, 21 October 2022 (UTC)