Wikipedia:Peer review/Hawksbill turtle/archive1

Hawksbill turtle[edit]

Been working on the article for the past few days, just want to know what you guys think. I know I need more stuff (and citations) in the importance to humans, and possibly the range and distribution section. I'm coming from a scientific background, so I'm not sure how it reads to a lay person right now. Thanks! Shrumster 11:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, APR _t 21:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, done! Anything else that needs to be done? Shrumster 08:48, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I should clear-up those "citation needed" markers, and maybe stub the red links (or remove the [[ brackets ]]). DrKiernan 08:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done with the wikilinks, just the citations left! Shrumster 08:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Finally found an old journal article for the citations. No more unreferenced info in the article. Shrumster 19:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is a nice article. The Range Section is a weak point; it seems to be just randomly mention places the turle is known to live. It needs to be organized in some fashion. A rangemap would be great. It would also would be nice to see a diagram of evoutionary relationships with other turtles if that exists. The other thing I noticed was missing was information on the early life stage. Do young turtles live in a different area of the water than adults do? What are their main predators in the water? What stategies do they use to survive until they are large engouh to not be considered prey? How long does it take them to grow to significant size? What are the survival rates? --BirgitteSB 04:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the review. I'll try to add more info as I find them especially for the range and distribution. As for the early life history, the info is in the "Life History" subsection under the "Ecology" section. I think I should change that to "Life History and Ecology" to reflect its contents. Unfortunately, the next line adequately explains the lack of info about the turtle's early life: "Much is not known about the life history of Eretmochelys imbricata." :) Sadly, right now we in the scientific community don't have enough solid information yet to determine what goes on between hawksbills' hatching and their juvenile-early adult life stages (as we do with the loggerhead & the green). I'll see what I can do about fleshing out that section anyway though. Would stating how it is for others (loggerhead, for example) and then just pointing out where the holes in the data are for hawksbills suffice? Shrumster 05:30, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rather than using the Loggerhead, I think it would good if you could generalize how it is with Sea turtles (Chelonioidea) and then point out the holes for the hawksbil.--BirgitteSB 16:07, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Fleshed out the life history part, I hope it's adequate. Shrumster 15:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the suggestions! It's been a week and I think I've improved on the article enough, I'm going to be bold and try for FAC! Shrumster 15:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]