User:Ezra Smith/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
 * Pribnow box


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is rather short, so I feel there is opportunity for more discussion on the subject. The article has very few citations so some claims within the article are not adequately backed up. It is written in a neutral tone which for the most part is easy to follow, but some words or phrases are mentioned that the average reader would be unable to comprehend. The sources used in the article are rather old and some are primary sources (the one by David Pribnow himself). I also think the writers make some claims or statements that are not correctly interpreted from their sources (the one where they mention hydrogen bonding a method of DNA stabilization for example). I also wonder if the table used is out of date.


 * Sources
 * I think I could find good and reliable information from my different biochemistry textbooks on the subject of bacterial DNA replication which would involve this topic (Lehninger text and Voet Voet text).

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Base pair


 * Article Evaluation
 * I think this article is really well made and may need a few touch ups here and there. I do think that there is potential for other sections but that would require me sitting down and taking some time to think about what information would be relevant. The article is chalked full of sources and I don't see any claims that haven't been backed up. The talk page for this article is rather quiet and the article itself hasn't been edited since 2018.


 * Sources
 * Again I think my biochem textbook would be useful. Until I think of a new section that would be beneficial I think I would mainly focus on tightening up the article and making it more concise and easy to read.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * X-linked recessive inheritance


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article hasn't had much done to it in a couple of years and has some citation needed tags on it. I think I would be able to figure out the correct citations and/or get rid of unnecessary non-cited info all together. It reads really well and seems like a good put together article simply in need of some touch-ups.


 * Sources
 * Genetics textbook and any that I find for those requiring a citation.

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