User:Dylan Vecchione/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
 * Protocell:
 * Article Evaluation
 * David's Recommendations:
 * -Fails to describe where abiotic lipids might come from. But there are reviews: e.g., Cohen+ 2022 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00168 - Fails to even mention coacervates as alternatives. - Biased: Fails to cite work by Baz Jackson questioning the feasibility of chemiosmosis in rock pores [Jackson (2016) Natural pH gradients in hydrothermal alkali vents were unlikely to have played a role in the origin of life. J. Mol. Evol, 83: 1-11; (2017) Ancient living organisms escaping from, or imprisoned in, the vents? Life, 7, 36; also: Deamer (2017) Conjecture and hypothesis: The importance of reality checks, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 13, 620-624)  - Poorly written with unbroken, long, wandering paragraphs that stray over several subjects. Competent writing has one topic in one paragraph.
 * My Evaluation:
 * -Could link to some relevant de novo articles being written by students like "Warm Little Pond", "Prebiotic Synthesis", "Condensation Reactions"?
 * -Could attempt to better differentiate the purpose of the Protocell page compared to the Evolution of Cells: The First Cells.
 * -Contribute to article balance following David's recommendations
 * Sources
 * -Joyce and Szostak 2018
 * -Hanczyc, M.M.; Fujikawa, S.M.; Szostak, J.W. Experimental models of primitive cellular compartments: Encapsulation, growth, and division. Science 2003, 302, 618–622.
 * -Cohen et al. 2022 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00168
 * -Jackson (2016) Natural pH gradients in hydrothermal alkali vents were unlikely to have played a role in the origin of life. J. Mol. Evol, 83: 1-11;
 * -Jackson (2017) Ancient living organisms escaping from, or imprisoned in, the vents? Life, 7, 36
 * -Deamer (2017) Conjecture and hypothesis: The importance of reality checks, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 13, 620-624
 * -Jackson (2016) Natural pH gradients in hydrothermal alkali vents were unlikely to have played a role in the origin of life. J. Mol. Evol, 83: 1-11;
 * -Jackson (2017) Ancient living organisms escaping from, or imprisoned in, the vents? Life, 7, 36
 * -Deamer (2017) Conjecture and hypothesis: The importance of reality checks, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 13, 620-624