User:HaskelleTW/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

 * Earliest known life forms
 * Article Evaluation
 * Most of the content is relevant to the topic. I'm not completely sure why there is a "Biosphere" section, and it's much longer than the actual content on the earliest known life forms.
 * Article is neutral and well cited. Each citation is reliable, but I don't think the article properly characterizes them. For example, they say the evidence of life from 4.1 Ga was found in rocks, but they don't mention that it was found in a zircon inside those rocks. The rocks did not hold the evidence of life, and this is important to note because rocks provide geologic context but minerals don't.
 * The article needs more content (there are plenty more fossil evidence to discuss" and not all the examples they list in the fossil paragraph are fossils. There should be separate sections on carbon isotope evidence, then fossil evidence.
 * Sources
 * Condie, K. C. (2022). The biosphere. In Earth as an Evolving Planetary System (pp. 269–303). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819914-5.00003-2 Hickman-Lewis, K., Westall, F., & Cavalazzi, B. (2019). Traces of Early Life From the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. In Earth’s Oldest Rocks (pp. 1029–1058). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00042-3 Knoll, A. H., & Nowak, M. A. (2017). The timetable of evolution. Science Advances, 3(5), e1603076. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603076
 * Sources
 * Condie, K. C. (2022). The biosphere. In Earth as an Evolving Planetary System (pp. 269–303). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-819914-5.00003-2 Hickman-Lewis, K., Westall, F., & Cavalazzi, B. (2019). Traces of Early Life From the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa. In Earth’s Oldest Rocks (pp. 1029–1058). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00042-3 Knoll, A. H., & Nowak, M. A. (2017). The timetable of evolution. Science Advances, 3(5), e1603076. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1603076

Option 2

 * Great Oxidation Event
 * Article Evaluation
 * I first selected this article because it was rated "C-class," but as I read it I thought it was very comprehensive and well written. It turns out someone from this class in 2019 has already edited it! The content is relevant, however I did notice quite a few sentences lacking citations. There are some outdated literature in the geologic evidence section. However, overall it's very well-done and I'm struggling to see why it's "C-class." I like the subsections and the order it's in, and I like the diversity of evidence and related topics. I could probably contribute the most to the geologic evidence and the hypotheses sections.
 * Sources
 * Duncan M. S. and Dasgupta R. (2017) Rise of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen controlled by efficient subduction of organic carbon. Nature Geosci., 10(5), 387–392. Kipp M. A., Stüeken E. E., Bekker A., and Buick R. (2017) Selenium isotopes record extensive marine suboxia during the Great Oxidation Event. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 114(5), 875–880.
 * Krissansen-Totton J., Buick R., and Catling D. C. (2015) A statistical analysis of the carbon isotope record from the Archean to Phanerozoic and implications for the rise of oxygen. Am. J. Sci., 315(4), 275–316.
 * Duncan M. S. and Dasgupta R. (2017) Rise of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen controlled by efficient subduction of organic carbon. Nature Geosci., 10(5), 387–392. Kipp M. A., Stüeken E. E., Bekker A., and Buick R. (2017) Selenium isotopes record extensive marine suboxia during the Great Oxidation Event. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 114(5), 875–880.
 * Krissansen-Totton J., Buick R., and Catling D. C. (2015) A statistical analysis of the carbon isotope record from the Archean to Phanerozoic and implications for the rise of oxygen. Am. J. Sci., 315(4), 275–316.

Option 3

 * Archean
 * Article Evaluation
 * A suprisingly short article. The geology section is good, but more could be added to the Early Life section. Perhaps I could add a "evidence of life in the Archean" section. A lot of the sources in this section are old (1980 and older) and have been expanded upon. There is also a severe lack of citations in the begginning paragraphs.
 * Sources
 * Buick, R. (2012). Geobiology of the Archean Eon. In A. H. Knoll, D. E. Canfield, & K. O. Konhauser (Eds.), Fundamentals of Geobiology (1st ed., pp. 351–370). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118280874.ch19 136
 * Van Kranendonk, M. J., Djokic, T., Poole, G., Tadbiri, S., Steller, L., & Baumgartner, R. (2019). Depositional Setting of the Fossiliferous, c.3480 Ma Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton. In Earth’s Oldest Rocks (pp. 985–1006). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00040-X
 * Buick, R. (2012). Geobiology of the Archean Eon. In A. H. Knoll, D. E. Canfield, & K. O. Konhauser (Eds.), Fundamentals of Geobiology (1st ed., pp. 351–370). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118280874.ch19 136
 * Van Kranendonk, M. J., Djokic, T., Poole, G., Tadbiri, S., Steller, L., & Baumgartner, R. (2019). Depositional Setting of the Fossiliferous, c.3480 Ma Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton. In Earth’s Oldest Rocks (pp. 985–1006). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-63901-1.00040-X

Option 4

 * Life on Venus
 * Article Evaluation
 * Many sections need to be expanded or updated. The "Surface conditions" and "Past habitability potential" need more recent literature. In the Phosphine section, some of their citations are tweets! Life on Venus has not been proven and so there is a lot of speculation in this article. I think there needs to be more content about past habitability on Venus since that is much more researched.
 * Sources
 * Dyar, M. D., Helbert, J., Cooper, R. F., Sklute, E. C., Maturilli, A., Mueller, N. T., Kappel, D., & Smrekar, S. E. (2021). Surface weathering on Venus: Constraints from kinetic, spectroscopic, and geochemical data. Icarus, 358, 114139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114139
 * Resor, P. G., Gilmore, M. S., Straley, B., Senske, D. A., & Herrick, R. R. (2021). Felsic Tesserae on Venus Permitted by Lithospheric Deformation Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126 (4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006642 Way, M. J., Del Genio, A. D., Kiang, N. Y., Sohl, L. E., Grinspoon, D. H., Aleinov, I., Kelley, M., & Clune, T. (2016). Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system? Geophysical Research Letters, 43(16), 8376–8383. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069790
 * Dyar, M. D., Helbert, J., Cooper, R. F., Sklute, E. C., Maturilli, A., Mueller, N. T., Kappel, D., & Smrekar, S. E. (2021). Surface weathering on Venus: Constraints from kinetic, spectroscopic, and geochemical data. Icarus, 358, 114139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114139
 * Resor, P. G., Gilmore, M. S., Straley, B., Senske, D. A., & Herrick, R. R. (2021). Felsic Tesserae on Venus Permitted by Lithospheric Deformation Models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 126 (4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JE006642 Way, M. J., Del Genio, A. D., Kiang, N. Y., Sohl, L. E., Grinspoon, D. H., Aleinov, I., Kelley, M., & Clune, T. (2016). Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system? Geophysical Research Letters, 43(16), 8376–8383. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069790