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-2/28/20- Editing Maria Cunitz with User:Alynbrwn

--2/21/20 Hennig Brand

"Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?"

Everything in the article is relevant to Brand, but content outside of his work with alchemy are stubs at best. The content that is there for his life before alchemy is "uncertain," even lacking a valid birth and death date.

" Is the article neutral?"

It is.

"Check citations. Do the links work? Do the sources support claims in the article?"

John Emsley's The Shocking Discovery of Phosphorus ISBN look up link did not work in the Wikipedia book source finder. The link to "The discovery of the elements. XXI. Supplementary note on the discovery of phosphorus" from the Journal of Chemical Education did work. Those are the only two sources on the page.

"Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference?"

Absolutely not. The discovery of phosphorus is backed by the two sources above (one not easily accessible to the public) and that is all.

"Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?"

While I'm not yet sure if the information is out-of-date in that there is much more out there about Brand's life outside of alchemy (I hope this is the case) there is certainly information that could be added even in the bounds of the article's current barebones state. For example, the article mentions that "Brand held the position of Junior officer" during the 30 Years War, and even claims that he did this to pursue alchemy, yet there is no source for either claim beyond a small mention in the inaccessible source. Surely there are state records for this?

"Talk page?"

Only discussion about no one knowing his date of death to the point where other encyclopedias have varying dates of death for him.