User:Abdul.mamun47/Evaluate an Article

In completing and going through the Wikipedia assignment, I learned that it can be resourceful and helpful to give edit information or add information to Wikipedia Stubs. I chose the molecules Butyryl-CoA and CSPD because I did not see much information there, and I knew some descriptions of the molecule just by looking at it, so I thought since it is not there, why not add it the stub page.

I have added the functional groups for Butyryl-CoA, because one being it was not there already, two, functional groups have an effect on the molecule being solubility, boiling point, angles and so on. So if one were look at a molecule, they can assume that the molecules melting point or solubility would be a certain way opposed to the opposite way. Also I have added another function the molecule Butyryl-CoA does and that is it helps supply energy to the guts. And the same explanation would go along for CSPD. But one interesting think about CSPD is that CSPD effects persister cell formation. And persister cells are cells that avoid stress and are characterized by reduced metabolism and other factors. This tells us an insight about what CSPD is and what it does.

I learned from Wikipedia, that sources must be reliable and credit must be given where it is due. If one fails to adhere to any of these two things, the page is for naught if sources are not reliable and if credit is not due it would be plagiarism and unlawful. In actuality, I have never had an assignment like this for Wikipedia. But I did do a assignment for English class where we would need to find scholarly articles to support our argument. It was quite similar in that aspect. We could have used the Hunter database, google scholar and for this assignment I used pubmed as well. Wikipedia can be used to improve public understanding of the given topic in that, if one knows or holds some knowledge, they can share that knowledge on the Wikipedia or the web, so that we can all access that knowledge/information. This is important so that great scientists and thinkers come about discovering new molecules, ideas and methods.

The Wikipedia assignment did in fact affect my understanding of how information is constructed and shared. Though I would say that my first source to go to is not Wikipedia, but I see how information is shared and constructed on Wikipedia. I understand there is vast knowledge and ideas that need to be discovered and studied on, and that we are not close to discovering a lot about the world/universe.