User:Ecokelbells/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
The ecology of chronic wasting disease in wildlife
 * Article title: Chronic wasting disease:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Currently, the Wikipedia has good information about the history of how it was first discovered, symptoms of the disease, along with where it is endemic to. However, it needs more up-to-date information about its spread, transmission, and what species the disease can spread to or are susceptible to. The article also notes that the disease cannot spread to humans, but there is a scientific article saying that it might be able to. There are just tiny details like these that need further clarification. They also currently only have small sections on prevention efforts and research towards the disease.
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Exposure risk of chronic wasting disease in humans

Transmission, strain diversity, and zoonotic potential of chronic wasting disease

Spatiotemporal epizootiology of chronic wasting disease in Wiscousin deer

Genotype by Environment Interactions for chronic wasting disease in farmed U.S. White-tailed deer

Option 2

 * Article title Environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and personal care products:
 * Article Evaluation:
 * The article is very well developed in terms of what the types of pharmaceuticals there are, their sources, and recommendations for people on how to curtail the spread of them into the environment. There is not enough information on the ecological effect of the pharmaceuticals. For example, there needs to be more specific cases on how certain pharmaceuticals affect certain fish and aquatic life, and birds. They only cite a couple of studies that have been done. Various citations are also missing for these studies. The state of how much of these contaminants are in other countries like China can also be added.:
 * Sources:Effects of pollution on freshwater aquatic organisms:Detection and drivers of exposure and effects of pharmaceuticals in higher vertebrates:The effects of pharmaceutical and estrone exposure on predator avoidance performance and feeding efficiency in larval fathead minnows:Pharmaceuticals and personal care products: A review on environmental contamination in China

Option 3

 * Article title Environmental toxicology:
 * Article Evaluation:The article does not go into much detail about how specific environmental contaminants can harm organisms and instead lists out general effects. There are a few studies documenting effects on specific organisms for every metal or chemical listed, but there could be more. It focuses more on how the heavy metals affect humans and the ongoing regulation the U.S. government is trying to place on these contaminants. Studies could be added to describe regulation, sources of environmental pollution, and their environmental effects in other countries. These can include Agent Orange in Vietnam, mining in Ghana, lead in Atlanta, GA to gain a better world-wide view of how these chemicals affects humans and their environment.
 * Sources
 * Effects of pollution on freshwater aquatic organisms:Bioaccumation of heavy metals in fish species from the Meiliang Bay, Taihu Lake, China:Effects of aluminum contamination on the nervous system of freshwater aquatic vertebrates: a review:Inegrated multiphase ecological risk assessment of heavy metals for migratory water birds in wetland ecosystem: a case study of Donzhangwu Wetland, China:Agent Orange: Haft-century effects on the Vietnamese wildlife have been ignored:Contamination and toxic effects of persistent endocrine disrupters in marine mammals and birds:Metalliferous Mining Pollution and its Impact on terrestrial and semi-terrestrial vertebrates: a review

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