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William H. Welch

The article's content is relevant to the topic. The article has an inadvertant positive bias towards Welch as a result of mostly being about his professional achievements. This could be remedied by further investigating some of his failed endeavors and expanding the scope of the article beyond his, widely agreed to be successful, professional life. The article's claims are all tied to citations given at the bottom of the article with the exception of a few paragraphs at the bottom of the section disucssing Welch's "later career" where multiple claims are never explicitely linked to their respective citations. The citations are reliable with a spread between primary news articles, information from Johns Hopkins, and biographies written after his death.

Applied Physics Laboratory

Article's content is relevant if a little sparse. The article is fairly unbiased, often stating facts and recounting events as they are. Most claims are cited correctly. However, there is still the occasionally paragraph wholly lacking citations where they are needed. The cited sources are reliable, spread between releases directly from Johns Hopkins, various news organizations, government agencies, and journals. The content of this article needs to be fleshed out more in detail though. Beyond a thorough discussion about the founding and goals of the APL, all other sections contain a few sentences of information or disjointed facts that ought to be expanded upon (or reorganized).

Abel Wolman

Article's content is relevant aside from a paragraph at the bottom of the "Background" section dedicated to the achievements of Wolman's son which otherwise have no relation to Abel Wolman himself. The article is written with a positive bias towards Wolman primarily focusing on his honors and the positive rationale behind them with little to nothing in the way of criticism. Each claim has a citation and each source is reliable. However, there are few sources cited with the vast majority of the content relating to Wolman's life coming from 3 sources. Moreover, the organization of the article needs work. For one, the only sections delineated are "Background" and "List of Honors" and the "Background" section itself jumps back and forth between the decades making it hard to follow.

Charles S. Hastings

Article's content is relevant to the topic. The article is written in an unbiased way, mostly focusing on matters of fact and balancing positive accounts of character with negative ones. Each claim has a relevant citation and the sources cited are well spread out between various credible types of sources like scientific journals, biographies, and accounts from the organizations he worked closely with. The predominant issue here is that there is no structure in the article (all content is concentrated in the lead) and there are no images to speak of. Moreover, the article is a stub and requires expansion.

Alfred Jenkins Shriver

Article's content is relevant to the topic. The article is unbiased but is very unbalanced in terms of content focus. A majority of the article is dedicated solely to Shriver's will, the endowment said will left to Johns Hopkins, and the bizarre conditions attached to the money. While amusing, there must have been additional literature on the topic that better describes Shriver's life beyond being an eccentric Hopkins alumni philanthropist. Each claim has a citation to reliable primary sources of the time period able to document the facts in real time. Nonetheless, only 4 sources are listed and have room to be expanded upon. Expansion is sorely needed given that this article has been a candidate for Blow it up and start over