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Ayserdo (talk) 06:51, 15 September 2017 (UTC) Critique of the article 'Microbial loop'[1]
The article provided substantial amount of information on the topic but was rated as 'start class' article, according to WikiProject Environment and WikiProject Microbiology, which indicates that the articles quality was not the best that it could be and needed alterations to improve errors related to grammar and spelling errors.[2][3][4] The style of in-text citations used by the author is different than the usual way wikipedia recommends its authors to use [5], and also not used in several paragraphs to show where the information discussed in the article is coming from. 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. [5]The author also mentioned phenomena such as sloopy feeding and mucilaginous exopolymer in the 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. [6] The ‘talk’ page of the article has records of only two authors’ comments, which contradicts the history of the article which shows plenty of editions but even with the changes to the article, the fact that the article is still regarded as ‘'start class' suggests the editions made were not sufficient to correct its content related, grammatical and writing style errors. [2][3]
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.
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- ^ "Microbial loop". Wikipedia. 2017-09-03.
- ^ a b "Wikipedia:WikiProject Environment/Assessment". Wikipedia. 2017-02-16.
- ^ a b "Wikipedia:WikiProject Microbiology". Wikipedia. 2017-02-22.
- ^ "Talk:Microbial loop". Wikipedia. 2017-08-17.
- ^ a b "Wiki Education Dashboard". dashboard.wikiedu.org. Retrieved 2017-09-15.
- ^ 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.