User:Horseshoecrab3/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
 * Effluent


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed under high importance and stub quality in the Wiki Environment Project. The article's content is relevant to the topic, but it is minimal and could be expanded upon to include the effects of effluent on the environment among other aspects.  Citations are missing from the second half of the article in the last two paragraphs of the background section.  There seems to be some disagreement in the talk page regarding the definition of effluent in relation to municipalities and regulation laws.


 * Sources
 * U.S. EPA Effluent Guidelines https://www.epa.gov/eg
 * Montes, R., Méndez, S., Carro, N., Cobas, J., Alves, N., Neuparth, T., Santos, M. M., Quintana, J. B., & Rodil, R. (2022). Screening of Contaminants of Emerging Concern in Surface Water and Wastewater Effluents, Assisted by the Persistency-Mobility-Toxicity Criteria. Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 27(12). https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27123915
 * Carvalho, A. R., Pérez-Pereira, A. I., Couto, C. M. C., Tiritan, M. E., & Ribeiro, C. M. R. (2022). Assessment of effluents quality through ecotoxicological assays: evaluation of three wastewater treatment plants with different technologies. Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 29(1), 963–976. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15671-y

Option 2

 * Article title
 * No observed effect concentration


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does not yet exist, but it is highlighted in red in the article titled "Ecotoxicology" which indicates that it needs to be written. Wikipedia does, however, have an article titled "Measures of pollutant concentration" that contains a brief description of the NOEC, but not of the LOEC.  The NOEC warrants its own article because it is a value that is often calculated and widely used in ecotoxicology to help describe the toxicity of substances.  This topic is notable because there are several reliable independent sources that exist about the NOEC, some of which are listed below.


 * Sources
 * Fox, D.R. & Landis, W. G. (2016). Don't be fooled - a no-observed-effect concentration is no substitute for a poor concentration-response experiment. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 35(9) 2141-2148. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.3459
 * Australian Government: Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority - No-observed-effect-level (NOEL) and no-observed-adverse-effect level (NOAEL): use in animal health risk assessments https://apvma.gov.au/node/20821

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Biomarker


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated C-class under WikiProject Molecular Biology and WikiProject Medicine. Biomarkers are fairly well-addressed in terms of medical and clinical applications, but there is a short section included in this article titled "Ecotoxicology" that could use some work.  This section starts off on a tangent about Rachel Carson and "Silent Spring", and then only includes a couple of sentences with a brief description.  This section needs examples of biomarkers and how they are used in ecotoxicology.  There is a link to a main article, however, titled "Biomarkers of exposure assessment" that contains a bit more information.  Some pieces of information are missing citations.  The following citations have not already been cited in the "Biomarker" article or in the "Biomarkers of exposure assessment" article.


 * Sources
 * Walker CH. Biochemical biomarkers in ecotoxicology--some recent developments. Sci Total Environ. 1995 Oct 27;171(1-3):189-95. doi: 10.1016/0048-9697(95)04720-6. PMID: 7481746.
 * Forbes VE, Palmqvist A, Bach L. The use and misuse of biomarkers in ecotoxicology. Environ Toxicol Chem. 2006 Jan;25(1):272-80. doi: 10.1897/05-257r.1. PMID: 16494252.
 * López-Barea J. Biomarkers in ecotoxicology: an overview. Arch Toxicol Suppl. 1995;17:57-79. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-79451-3_6. PMID: 7786193.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Sorption


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated Start-class under WikiProject Physics and WikiProject Technology. Sorption is briefly (and rather poorly) defined.  The only other content that the article contains are links to articles that describe specific cases of sorption, desorption, and sorption rate.  This article could use a section about how sorption relates to ecotoxicology in terms of soil-water partitioning and how it affects toxicity.  The article contains only one citation which is about absorption.  Nothing has been written on the Talk Page.


 * Sources
 * UCI Department of Chemistry: sorption https://www.chem.uci.edu/~unicorn/243/papers/adsorption.pdf
 * Reza Rahimi, M., & Mosleh, S. (2021). Intensification of Sorption Processes : Active and Passive Mechanisms. Elsevier.
 * Khumalo, S. M., Lasich, M., Bakare, B. F., & Rathilal, S. (2022). Sorption of Perfluorinated and Pharmaceutical Compounds in Plastics: A Molecular Simulation Study. Water (20734441), 14(12), N.PAG. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14121951

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Calcium carbamate


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does not yet exist, but it is highlighted in red in the article titled "Carbamate" which indicates that it needs to be written. I am not certain that enough information exists for calcium carbamate to have its own article.  The following sources are reliable and contain standard chemical information, but I cannot find any noteworthy characteristics of calcium carbamate as opposed to carbamate.


 * Sources
 * National Center for Biotechnology Information (2022). PubChem Compound Summary for CID 87604884, Calcium carbamate. Retrieved September 20, 2022 from https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Calcium-carbamate.
 * Reck, G., & Becker, R. (2004). Phenanthroline complexes of zinc and calcium carbamates. Acta Crystallographica: Section C (Wiley-Blackwell), 60(3), M134–M136. https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108270104001441