Talk:Crotalus scutulatus

Any help would be appreciated

I'm sure I didn't get the layout quite right but I did manage to figure out the pink box. Copy and paste is a good thing. :-) Feel free to correct my boo-boos. I did my best.Mary Ash 05:17, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Remarks on sources

Sources should be chosen and selected according their relevance, and not be given a simple link, but by providing their "bibliographic data".

Reference No.1 only cites the official "Red List". Thus the official "Red List" is the correct source.

Reference No.2 is only a student paper. Reference No.3 is from a Community College. Both are, in my view, not suitable as a reference.

Reference No.4 is the abstract of a scientific talk. It should be cited accordingly (Author, title, date, where)

References No. 5 and 6 for a sentence quoted from No. 5 is not really useful -- choose the better one (while both are probably not the best possible). And: Such simple information should not be given as quote but integrated into the narrative.

References Nos. 7 and 8 point to the same article that should be cited with Author, Title, Date, Place of publication. (perhaps better in the biography)

Why did you copy "See also" items from WP? (We do not have such lists, you know.)

--Peter Schmitt 00:12, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

I copied and pasted an article from the timber rattlesnake found at CZ. As to the rest of the stuff, I will check the sources but I do know one was a student paper, referenced, from SFSU and other was written by a PhD who studied reptiles. Also, I used the wiki reference tool maker to as suggested by the folks at CZ to write the references. Feel free to correct them as needed, as this is a wiki and a collaborative effort. Mary Ash 01:59, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

I tried to move the sources around tonight and futzed up the page. Please re-order the sources, if possible, as I tried without much success. I also added a couple "university level" or accepted authorities (Arizona Fish and Game or the BLM for example) to document the article. I'm done for now as I am tired. Mary Ash 04:51, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, Mary, bad luck: The CZ article Crotalus horridus on the timber rattlesnake (obviouly) is an old WP import that does not provide a good example.

The wiki reference tool is convenient to create the correct syntax for a reference. It does not (and cannot) insert the information needed (Author, Title, etc., depending on the refernce). To do that is up to the user who uses the tool!

--Peter Schmitt 11:39, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

A remark on style

Single sentence sections should be avoided, in particular, if they obviously belong to the same topic:

• Range + Habitat + Hibernation + Reproductive cycle
• Venom + Snakebite symptoms + Treatment

If you talk about (venom) type A and venom type B this needs explanation. --Peter Schmitt 00:17, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

Well done

Just like to say that we have a lot of short articles on snakes that were written by Jaap Winius at the beginning of the project - he wrote most of the Wikipedia articles and cross-posted. However they haven't been added to since then, though some have been modified stylistically. Well done Mary for importing a photo. You've also followed Jaap's format meticulously - congratulations for checking carefully the style of similar articles on Citizendium. I agree with Peter above (and I'm sure you do too), that the standard format (i.e. of many short sections) should be changeso don't be afraid.Gareth Leng 12:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)