User talk:Niemolej

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 21:50, 19 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I reverted your additions to the green iguana article because they are not up to the required standard of a Good Article. Per this training slide can be challenging to work on because they require a higher standard of writing and formatting.

• Your section headers need to use sentence capitalization, not title capitalization - only capitalize the first word and proper nouns. Similarly, the word "iguana" shouldn't be capitalized. (You should generally use the specific "green iguana" rather than the more general "iguana" unless you're talking about the whole family.)
• You're contributions should fit into the article as a whole. You started by saying Although the Iguana is considered to be an invasive species, the iguana, like many other species found in tropical areas, has faced habitat depletion in certain areas, such as regions in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Panama. This information duplicates both the Distribution and habitat section (which outlines its range) and the As an invasive species section just below the one you added.
• Make sure you cite your sources properly. This source: {{Cite web|url=http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A7661157/HRCA?sid=googlescholar|title=Iguana conservation and economic development: an iguana population and market are revitalized|last=Cohn|first=Jeffrey P.|date=1989-06-01|website=BioScience|language=English|access-date=2019-04-13}} is incomplete - it doesn't include a volume or page number - and the link you used is only accessible to people who are logged into this Gale Group portal. Links are less important than complete references.
• Make sure that everything you add is supported by the cited source. For example, you wrote Although the Iguana is considered to be an invasive species, the iguana, like many other species found in tropical areas, has faced habitat depletion in certain areas, such as regions in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Panama. As a result the green iguana is listed within Appendix II by CITES, indicating that it is beneficial to regulate trade of this species, but supported this with nothing more than a link to the CITES website.
  • Also avoid being condescending in your writing: like many other species found in tropical areas is a condescending style of writing; after all, it was the non-tropical US that sent the billion-strong passenger pigeon to extinction and the American bison to the edge.
• Avoid terms like "extremely" common ("extremely" isn't quantifiable, and will mean different things to different readers) and "dwindling" (it's just a more charged way of saying "declining").
• Be specific. When you say in certain areas, such as regions in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Panama you've added almost no information. The native range of the species is "parts of Latin America" and the southern Caribbean. You also blame "habitat depletion", when in fact green iguanas are generalists which are quite happy in the suburbs if they aren't hunted by humans or dogs - while this might be the case, it's a surprising fact, and one that needs a specific supporting citation.
• One of your sources is from the 1980s. On a topic like conservation, you probably want to focus on more recent sources than that. In the world of conservation, the 1980s are distant history. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 13:54, 8 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

What would be the best way of fixing this? Or would it be better to just rewrite the whole section with a different emphasis such as the green iguana's use by humans as a food source within Central and South America with a mention of the strategies used to make sure that local populations are over-exploited? Niemolej (talk) 05:56, 10 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]