User:Jrumscheidt/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

 * Salen ligand
 * - Lead section: concise, gives overview of topics covered in the rest of the article without too much detail
 * - Content: The content is relevant and up to date, however only covers a few specific examples of Salen type ligands, and little about their reactivity and other properties; all the content that is included belongs though
 * - Tone and balance: The article is very neutral and only gives unbiased facts about Salen ligands
 * - Sources and references: the article is well referenced, from a wide range of authors, and the majority are peer-reviewed scientific articles. Additionally, many of the sources are current and up to date
 * - Organization: The article is well-organized, divided into easy to follow subtopics, and is concise and easy to read
 * - Image and media: The images are relevant, clearly captioned, help with the understanding of the article and are visually appealing
 * - Talk page: There is not much discussion on the Talk page, but the article is part of Wikiproject Chemistry
 * Overall, a good article, could be improved by including more information on the ligands, specifically more examples
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Option 2

 * Photoexcitation
 * - Lead section: Relatively concise, as the article is not split up into subsections, the lead section more gives an explanation of how photo excitation works rather than what is presented in the article
 * - Content: The content is relevant and up to date and gives examples of how photo excitation is used (various application), but is fairly brief and doesn't elaborate on some of the applications and is could explain more in depth about the phenomena itself
 * - Tone and balance: The article presents information neutrally
 * - Sources and references: The references are relatively current, from a range of authors, and are from peer-reviewed articles, however more sources would be helpful to improve the article
 * - Organization: The article is concise and easy to read, but is not divided up into subtopics, so in order to learn about on piece of information you have to parse through the entire article
 * - Image and media: There are not any images to help understand the article
 * - Talk page: The article is part of WikiProject Physics, and there have been some productive discussions on the page about the articles content
 * Overall, the article in underdeveloped, but the information in it is relevant, concise and easy to understand.
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Option 3

 * Wilkinson's catalyst
 * - Lead section: Concise, highlights the sections of the article, a background into the catalyst, its properties, structure, and uses.
 * - Content:
 * - Tone and balance: Neutral, presents all aspects clearly and equally
 * - Sources and references: very well cited with articles from a wide range of authors that are reliable secondary sources however are mainly older sources
 * - Organization: Structured well, well divided into multiple sections that make sense with the content, gives links to other relevant wikipedia articles when applicable, and each sentence is clear and easy to read
 * - Images and media: Gives relevant pictures that help understand the catalyst better, are visually appealing, but are not properly captioned
 * - Talk page: part of WikiProject Chemistry, and their are many interesting and productive discussions on the talk page about potential uses of the catalyst
 * Overall: could go more in to depth about reactions, and reference more current sources (mainly to double heck the information is still relevant)
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Option 4

 * Photocatalysis
 * - Lead section: Very concise, gives a general explanation of the concept, the chemistry behind it, and its major practical applications, and gives a good overview of the topics covered in the article
 * - Content: the articles content is relevant, and up to date, and gives a good overview of history, types of photocatalysis, and many applications; could expand more on how to quantify photocatalytic activity and the specific instrumentation involved
 * - Tone and balance: Very neutral, covers all subtopics equally (not an unequally among of emphasis on one topic vs another)
 * - Sources and references: Very well cited, with up-to date relevant sources from a diverse range of authors, working links, and many reliable, peer-reviewed secondary sources
 * - Organization: very well organized, with many sections and subsections, and is overall very easy to read and concise; no grammatical errors
 * - Images and media: Has a very images, that are relevant and well captioned, but is missing some key images that would help solidify understanding
 * - Talk page: Part of Wikiproject Chemistry, gives content suggestions and asks important questions about relations to other topics
 * Overall: very well organized, and concise, gives good overview of the topic, but the use of more images could greatly improve the article
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Option 5

 * Atom economy
 * - Lead section: Concise, gives definition and general explanation of the concept of atom economy and its relation to green chemistry; article not subdivided into sections so overview of article content not given
 * - Content: The content is all relevant, covers the difference between atom economy, chemical yield and stereoselectivity and the relationship between them, and is up to date
 * - Tone and balance: Presents information neutrally
 * - Sources and references: Sources are reliable, and from a wide range of authors, and most are current and up-to-date; could overall be improved but more sources being included
 * - Organization: Concise, and easy to read but not divided up into subsections, making it harder to find specific information within the article
 * - Images and media: A few helpful images, well captioned, and very helpful in understanding the concept of atom economy
 * - Talk page: part of WikiProject Chemistry, some discussion but limited
 * Overall: Could benefit from the subdivision of the article into multiple subtopics, as well are including more relevant images and sources; particular focus on how reactions utilize atom economy, and further applications
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