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William Grylls Adams


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Everything in the article seems to be relevant to the topic. It talks about his career after graduating college and his study of the solar cell which is a great start. Nothing is necessarily distracting however there are some 10 year gaps leading up to his discovery.


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

I dont see anything biased in the article however there could be some additions to his life in the atricle, more about his work teaching or even his time in the societies he was part of. More additions could also be made about his other achievements if any.


 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

A lot of sections could be added to the article namely his early life and just his contribution to the development of the solar cell in general. The only sections we actually have are his life after graduating college which still needs more info and a bullet list of his works which dont explain much.


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

All links seem to be working with the exception of one link leading to a page that does not exist yet. There are also two links (photovoltaic effect and Institution of Electrical Engineers) which seem incomplete or lacking references.


 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

All articles are neutral and not biased in any way. Most seem to be leading to reliable pages with the possible exception of the two linked in the above bullet. I think those two pages could use more sources themselves and need more work before they become good references.


 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

It seems to me that a lot is missing. We have no information on his early life which may or may not be important and we have a few 10 year gaps in his life that could be specified. The article also only really talks about his work with the solar cell. What else was he a part of?


 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

The page was last edited 15 April 2017 and it dosent seem to have any discussions at all on the talk page.


 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

The article is a Stub class article and is rated as low importance. This might be true or maybe there just hasn't been a lot of research done in general.


 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

I dont really think wiki discusses this topic differently then how we dont in class, now in saying that i dont really have a lot to go on since the article is in no way complete but from what it has it seems to be a good start with explaining key factors that this man did in his life with science in general. Bmty9f (talk) 20:36, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Drafting the Article
Early life

Find more about Adams early and late life... the article mostly only talks about his work besides what we already added...

Youngest son of 6 other siblings, 4 sons and 3 daughters in total to Thomas Adams and Tabitha Knill Grylls.

Other works

Adams was involved in a number of different educational roles outside King's College. He was an examiner in physics for the Department of Science and Art from 1879 until 1892 and for the universities of London and Cambridge. Adams was involved in the formation of the Physical Society in 1874 and was its president from 1878 until 1880. In 1880 Adams became the president of Section A of the British Association for the Advancement of Science which he was a member of through 1878–83. In 1884 Adams then became president of the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.(possibly the same as institution of electrical engineers, will look into this)

Adams studied philosophy under James Clerk Maxwell. Maxwell later moved to Cambridge which gave Adams the chance to fill his position in Philosophy until his retirement in 1905.

Family

Adams had a wife, 2 sons and a daughter(working on finding their names)

More in depth into his main work

“Adams had a variety of research interests of which one was magnetism. He studied the change in resistance produced by magnetization in iron and steel (1875). He compared magnetograph curves recorded at the observatories of Kew, Stonyhurst, Lisbon, Coimbra, Vienna, and St Petersburg (1880), and examined magnetic disturbances produced simultaneously at a number of locations (1893). He studied the polarization of light (1871), and in the late 1870s developed new forms of the polariscope, an instrument for studying the polarization of light. His particular instrument was used for determining the optical axes of biaxial crystals.” This could be something we look into adding to his work.... and of course would be parts of this quote not just the quote... Bmty9f (talk) 15:44, 11 October 2019 (UTC)

Looking into moving around and adding more headers specifically his early life and revising the works section from the sections above as right now it is just a list. For example

Works


 * Solar Heat: A Substitute Fuel for Tropical Countries, Bombay, 1878; Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., 2001


 * The action of light on selenium, 1875


 * On the action of light on tellurium and selenium, 1876


 * Simultaneous magnetic disturbances


 * Alternate current machines


 * Testing of dynamo machines

above is what the list looks like on the article, i would like to seperate it into to early life works, late and main works like his work on the photovoltaic effect Bmty9f (talk) 05:04, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Sources

Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Adams, William Grylls". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Birley, Graham I. (4 October 2019). [doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54259 "Adams, William Grylls"] Check |url= value (help). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Peer Review byJfitz19 (talk) 15:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Glad you are developing more of a format, but don’t forget to add a lead section. Add the noteworthy siblings to the early life section. Are the parents noteworthy to be wikilinked? Maybe include where he was born and his education in the early life section. Maybe create a career section to put his positions, memberships, and teaching locations. Look to remove the large quotes by paraphrasing. For the family section, were any of his kids noteworthy? I agree the list of works should probably be worked on, but instead of dividing them up into sections of his life maybe make a section for his main works and expand on what he did with the topics. I would also suggest finding more sources than two, but from the look of your notes and comments, it appears you are working on it. Then I would suggest putting the other works section below the main works section. Maybe find information to create an end of life section. You are doing a good job of starting to format and come up with more information. Don’t forget to include the information that is already in the original article. Jfitz19 (talk) 15:46, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Response to Peer Review
Thank you for the suggestions. I will be adding a lead section, I think that’s a great idea to help the quality of the article. I will be adding more about the note worthy siblings. We actually already elaborated a little about his brother in the original article who seems to be his only note worthy sibling. Now for the parents, they don’t seem to be noteworthy enough for links as I can’t really find anything on the parents and they don’t even have wiki pages created for them yet, I will keep looking into the history of his life to see if I can’t find anything note worthy besides being his parents. Where he was born is already stated in the original article so I felt I didn’t need to add that into my own draft. His education of his early life is also something that we had already added to the original article so once again I felt I didn’t need to put that in my draft. I like the idea of creating a career section to add his positions membership and teaching locations so I will be adding that into the article. We are working on paraphrasing the large quotes. About his kids being note worthy I actually haven’t thought about that at all so I’ll start looking into that right away. There will be a section based on his main works but I feel our goal will be to add more specific sections allowing for others to add to hopefully. As you already picked up on regarding the sources we are looking into it but honestly there isn’t a lot out there that seems reliable. We will hopefully be adding enough to his late life to create a section for his end of life, there is already a part In the original article for his death. About including the original info from the original article we didn’t necessarily know that we needed to copy the whole article into our rough draft. Thank you for taking the time to Peer Review. We will be adding some of your fantastic ideas.Bmty9f (talk) 15:34, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Direct Quote Revision by Pencil and Notepad (talk) 15:44, 25 October 2019 (UTC):

Career Section??? Adams had a wide area of interest, chief among these was light and magnetism. Light was the focus of Adams’ research, which began in 1871, in which he studied the effects of polarization. In order to study the effects of polarization on various substances like selenium and tellurium, Adams developed a new variant of the polariscope. In doing this, he was able to research “the optical axes of biaxial crystals.” Although his focus was light, magnetism was also heavy in his research. In this area, his focus was the resistance change in materials due to magnetism. Adams also compared readings of magnetographs form the observatories of various European cities and compared the “disturbances that were produced simultaneously at a number of locations.”

The field of astronomy also drew Adams' attention and eventually lead him to Italy to study eclipses. He also ventured into areas such as electrical power generation and transmission, specifically lighthouse illumination.[1] In this area, he compared varying aspects electric and oil lights for Trinity House.

Other Stuff: We plan to add to what u/bmty9f has said. There will also be revisions to the article structure, talked about in u/bmty9f’s article draft.