User talk:Ayserdo/sandbox
Critique of the article "Microbial Loop"
The article provided substantial amount of information on the topic, and contradictory to the lack of comments on the ‘talk’ page of the article there was many editions made, according to the history of the page, but nonetheless was rated as a 'start class' article, according to WikiProject Environment and WikiProject Microbiology, which indicates that the articles quality was not the best that it can be and needs more alterations to improve errors related to grammar and spelling errors.[1][2][3] The style of in-text citations used by the author is different than the usual way wikipedia recommends its authors to use [4], and also was missing from several paragraphs to guide the readers to the source of the claims being made. There is mention of several processes such as viral infection and lytic pathway, which lack hyperlinks, making it challenging for readers to access the information to fully comprehend the article. [4]The author also mentioned phenomena such as sloopy feeding and mucilaginous exopolymer in the first sentence of the 2nd paragraph, which he directly plagiarized from the book: 'Prescott's Principles of Microbiology', and did not even include it in the bibliography section. [5] The figure used to visually represent the microbial loop include organisms such as mesoplankton, microplankton, nanoplankton and picoplanton, none of which mentioned in the article and for none of them links were provided for the author to learn about them.
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- ^ "Talk:Microbial loop". Wikipedia. 2017-08-17.
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- ^ Krumbein, W. E.; Paterson, D. M.; Zavarzin, G. A. (2013-11-11). Fossil and Recent Biofilms: A Natural History of Life on Earth. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401701938.