User:Grace.volk7/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: Iron (II) oxide
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article has five sections, and all of them are very short. The talk page is relatively populated, but the last post was from a bot in 2016. There is a specific post on the talk page about improving and adding to the reactions section, which I think we would be able to do. There is also a message at the top of the talk page that is asking for it to be improved, as it is listed as a level-5 vital article in Science and Chemistry. In the references, there is one source that redirects to "page not found," meaning these references have not been improved on or checked recently. Overall, this article is very short, and each section provides an opportunity for editing and improvement.
 * Sources:
 * for the reactions section: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775315009660
 * also for the reactions section: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02320
 * for the reactions section: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378775315009660
 * also for the reactions section: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02320

GLH comment: this does look like a page that could use some work. Iron oxides are not always stoichiometrically pure, so it might be tricky to find general references to iron(II) oxide as opposed to compounds that contain iron(II) oxide

Option 2

 * Article title: Triphosgene
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article is bleak in all of its sections. It has a single post on the talk page, which is just a question about a reaction it might be involved in. There are ten sources listed, and they do not seem glaring or unreliable. There do not seem to be any grammatical errors or any issues with the tone of the article. The preparation and uses sections each contain about two sentences on the topic, but it is listed as mid-importance. It is also a start-class. The page was last edited in May of 2021. Overall, this article simply does not contain a lot of information in any area. It could be heavily improved by adding to each section and researching further.
 * Sources:
 * for the safety section: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.7b00220
 * for the uses section: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402020307493
 * for the safety section: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.7b00220
 * for the uses section: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040402020307493

GLH comment: if there are more uses for this compound then this is definitely a page that needs work.

Option 3
GLH comment: I'll add it, but I don't think there is a lot extra to add. C-12's main claim to fame is the historical one (before it was known it was difficult to separate C-12 from C-12 purely, the amu was described as 1/12th the mass of a C-12 line on mass spec).
 * Article title: Carbon-12
 * Article Evaluation:
 * This article is also very sparse. It only has 3 sections, and while some of them do include useful information, they only include the history, the hoyle state, and isotopic separations. The isotopic separations is only one sentence long, and it could be easily improved by researching more sources and adding additional methods. The lead section is not very long, and I think it does convey the main information about carbon-12. I cannot find any typos or bias in the article. I do not think this is the best article for improvement since it is a low-importance topic, and many articles mentioned carbon 12 are from the 20th century. However, if this article was chosen for improvement, sections could be added, and the information on the page could be checked for reliability (many of the sources are from 1999 and earlier).
 * Sources:
 * for the isotopic separations section: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/j100104a017
 * for the hoyle state section: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00407-010-0068-8.pdf
 * for the isotopic separations section: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/j100104a017
 * for the hoyle state section: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00407-010-0068-8.pdf

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