User:BPMcLaughlin/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * No-analog (ecology)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article seems very underdeveloped and is currently a stub. The article basically defines No-analog and provides two brief examples. There are no sub-headings or outlines. I think this page could be developed further to describe the paleo and modern conception of no-analog, the community and climate perspective, and the many related conservation and ecological applications. This is a somewhat burgeoning topic and has, to my knowledge, been relatively well-studied in recent years so that it might be a timely for a page about this.


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 * Several of the References listed for the article have links that don't work; this definitely needs editing!

Option 2

 * Article title
 * N/A -- Idea: Mid-Holocene Hemlock Decline


 * Article Evaluation
 * I am not especially familiar with this phenomenon, but it has come up in class a few times and has consistently sparked my interest. Seemingly, the decline and later expansion of hemlock in North America remains an unsolved, though well-studied, phenomenon. There is no existing Wikipedia page about this as far as I can find. Perhaps a Wikipedia article that describes the phenomenon and catalogs some of the existing hypotheses and research findings could be interesting for this class assignment. I would certainly learn a lot since I am unfamiliar myself with this!


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 * Seemingly a fair amount of primary literature available.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Picea critchfieldii


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is currently just a stub with a very baseline explanation of what P. critchfieldii is. It could be interesting to expand on this to include information about extinction and the fossil record. This could develop into slightly more broad outlines of European versus North American extinction, the challenge of identifying fossil plants to the species level, and modern insights about extinction. I am not super aware of how much published information there is about P. critchfieldii itself (other than the description of its discovery), so I wonder how much could be done with this. Nonetheless, it seems like a possible avenue for development.


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 * The source linked in the article is seemingly to a blog or website, so this section needs development. There is at least some primary literature available to pull information from for all of the possible directions I've mentioned above.

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