User:Gcoale/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


 * Naomi Livesay
 * Article Evaluation
 * She does not have a wikipedia page!
 * Sources
 * https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/naomi-livesay/#:~:text=Naomi%20Livesay%20French%20was%20an,to%20the%20theory%20of%20implosion.
 * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-woman-who-supervised-the-computations-that-proved-an-atomic-bomb-would-work/
 * https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-6-episodes/no-place-for-a-woman-in-mathematics-the-woman-who-ended-up-supervising-the-computations-that-proved-an-atomic-bomb-would-work
 * https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/season-6-episodes/no-place-for-a-woman-in-mathematics-the-woman-who-ended-up-supervising-the-computations-that-proved-an-atomic-bomb-would-work

Option 2

 * Klára Dán von Neumann
 * Article Evaluation
 * Needs more sources for verification and there is no section on her contributions.
 * Sources
 * https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-computer-scientist-you-should-thank-your-phone-weather-app-180963716/
 * https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-computer-scientist-you-should-thank-your-phone-weather-app-180963716/

Option 3

 * Ruth Howes
 * Article Evaluation
 * No picture, the top section does not incorporrate all aspects of the page, it doesn't discuss her involvement in the Manhattan Project which is quite shocking.
 * Sources
 * https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/ruth-howes/
 * https://www.aip.org/ruth-howes
 * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/they-remembered-the-lost-women-of-the-manhattan-project-so-that-none-of-us-would-forget/
 * https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/ruth-howess-interview/
 * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/they-remembered-the-lost-women-of-the-manhattan-project-so-that-none-of-us-would-forget/
 * https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/voices/oral-histories/ruth-howess-interview/

Option 4

 * Leona Zacharias
 * Article Evaluation
 * No picture, and no section about her contributions to the field from her publications.
 * Sources
 * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/leona-zacharias-helped-solve-a-blindness-epidemic-among-premature-babies-she-received-little-credit/
 * Sources
 * https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/leona-zacharias-helped-solve-a-blindness-epidemic-among-premature-babies-she-received-little-credit/

Option 5

 * Flora Wambaugh Patterson
 * Article Evaluation
 * There is just a "life" section that could definitely be broken up and there is no section on her specific contributions.
 * There is just a "life" section that could definitely be broken up and there is no section on her specific contributions.


 * Sources
 * https://www.si.edu/object/siris_arc_306391
 * https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/episodes/of-chestnuts-cherry-trees-and-mushroom-catsup-flora-patterson-the-woman-who-kept-devastating-blights-from-u-s-shores
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275374969_Flora_W_Patterson_The_First_Woman_Mycologist_at_the_USDA