User:Ddoroc/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

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 * Metal-phosphine complex


 * Article Evaluation
 * The content of the article is relevant and includes subcategories detailing its preparation, bonding, to metals, and applications to catalytic systems. The article is written in a neutral tone and provides hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles to direct readers who want more background information. Citations are added appropriately and sources are journal articles from reputable publishers or textbooks, although the website orgsyn.org might need to be investigated further to determine its reliability. The content in each section is brief, sometimes only containing a few sentences. While it states that phosphine ligands are not very reactive it might be useful to include a brief explanation like mentioning the trans effect and including a hyperlink to another article. There could also be additional information and figures in the spectroscopy section to illustrate where the substantial shift occur in P-NMR spectra. More detail should also be added under steric properties as it the information provided right now is very vague and might not be satisfactory for anyone really interested in learning about metal-phosphine complexes.


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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Nuclear spectroscopy


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is really short comparatively to other articles on Wikipedia that are higher in quality. The content included in the article is relevant and the sources cited seem credible. Since the topic is a broader analytical concept, different methods based on this principle is listed as hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles which provide more detail about nuclear spectroscopy in the context of that method. Therefore, writing an article on this broader topic can be difficult without going into the specifics which would require reference and details about a specific method. Sections that could be useful or helpful to include would be a history section that gives an overview of how these techniques were discovered and what they were first used for. More detail about the basic principle and physics that it relies on could also be another helpful section. Maybe further additions could include what type of information specifically does the stated emission, absorption of radiation provide, and how does that help scientists determine the structure of their sample. A compare and contrast section could also be included for the different nuclear spectroscopy methods already listed in the article. That way a reader can have a better sense of each method without having to go into each article page and extract relevant information themselves.


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Option 3

 * Article title
 * Zinc–air battery


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article follows a logical order of sections and content. It first starts out giving a brief overview on how a zinc-air battery operates and the chemical equations involved that generate electricity. Sections are well thought out such as including information on materials and discharging properties. Some non-science based pieces of information concerning zinc-air batteries on the market and cost of production could also be updated to reflect present day as some of the information on companies that sells zinc-air batteries dates back to 2013. As clean energy is a rapidly expanding sector, much more development has probably occurred within these ten years in both research and the industry. Some of the listed sources are in the form of PDF's to which the original source is unclear. Youtube videos are also listed as sources which is not too horrible considering the context in which it was used for which was to illustrate potential applications for zinc-air batteries, but journal articles or recognition of this application beyond the input of a singular person (don't know if they are a recognized scientist) should be included. Anyone can input their opinion and knowledge on Youtube without anyone else 'peer reviewing' it before 'publishing'. The energy metrics of zinc-air batteries shown in the upper right corner needs a citation. Looking through the talk page it seems that the most recent edit or discussion was in 2014 which indicates that this article could be updated based on more current literature or 'breakthroughs' in this research area.


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