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Gertrude Crotty Davenport


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Everything seemed relevant to the article topic. The only thing that threw me off was the little fact about her daughter. It doesn't have to do with Gertrude's life and there is no information about her other daughter. That part was distracting to me. Another thing that caught my attention was that the article had a little fact about her daughter but it didn't specify when it switched back to Gertrude herself.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * The last time the article was edited was in December of 2017 so there is probably more information out there. There seems to be a lot missing out of her life and her actual works. This could be improved.
 * What else could be improved?
 * There is a lot of room for improvement on this article. There is barely any information about her. It is one opening paragraph and then nothing. We could add more information and look for more reliable sources to reference.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article does seem to be neutral. It is all facts about the topic. There are no claims that have a position. It just states facts about her life and what she did.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Honestly, to me, there isn't enough information to have a strong viewpoint. So all viewpoints are underrepresented.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * The links do in fact work. They come up in a new tab and they are books.
 * 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?
 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * It looks like there are no conversations in the talk page. No one has edited this article in a long time and even when they were, there were no conversations in the talk page.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * The article is rated as a stub-class and low importance. It is a part of four Wikiprojects.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

--Britt947 (talk) 16:53, 22 February 2019 (UTC)

Gertrude Crotty Davenport
I chose Gerturde Cortty Davenport because she is a biologist and I am going into that field. There is also a lot missing from her page. There is a minimum amount of information on her. I would like to add information about her life and more about her works.

March 8
Gertrude Crotty Davenport Gertrude Crotty Davenport (1866–1946), was an American biologist and instructor at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences who studied embryology, development, and heredity. The wife of Charles Benedict Davenport, a prominent eugenicist, she co-authored several works with her husband and was influential in his interest in eugenics.

Gertrude Anna Crotty was born 28 February 1866, near Denver, Colorado, to parents William and Millie (Armstrong) Crotty. She graduated from Kansas State University in 1889 and became an instructor of zoology as a graduate student. She then became a graduate student of Radcliffe College from 1892 to 1894. She married Charles Davenport in Burlington, Kansas on June 23, 1894 and had two daughters; the eldest, Millia, became a noted theater scholar. With her husband she co-authored the text books Introduction to Zoology (Macmillan, 1900) and Elements of Zoology (Macmillan, 1911), and individually authored monographs including The Primitive Streak and Notochordal Canal in Chelonia and Variation in the Number of Stripes on the Sea-anemone, Sagartia luciae. She died on 8 March 1946, in Upper Nyack, New York.