User:Lucienne.t/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

 * Psychoactive cactus
 * - Does not address where psychoactive cacti are usually found
 * - Not enough information on the properties of psychoactive cacti
 * - Does not elaborate on the psychoactive properties mentioned in the first paragraph (not enough info on the biology of the plant)
 * Sources
 * - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01571-2
 * - https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pFeOluzNEGsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=psychoactive+cactus&ots=_5kXdyNJKD&sig=3bJJyCpCjWmziBpJi7kPtfkXwLI#v=onepage&q=psychoactive%20cactus&f=false 9
 * - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/15563658008989942
 * - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1746-4269-10-26
 * - https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=pFeOluzNEGsC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=psychoactive+cactus&ots=_5kXdyNJKD&sig=3bJJyCpCjWmziBpJi7kPtfkXwLI#v=onepage&q=psychoactive%20cactus&f=false 9
 * - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3109/15563658008989942
 * - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1746-4269-10-26

Option 2

 * Saprotrophic Bacteria
 * I chose this article for my Evaluate an Article assignment, which contains all my critiques and sources
 * I chose this article for my Evaluate an Article assignment, which contains all my critiques and sources

Option 3

 * Achene
 * - Introduction is difficult to understand for those who are not experts in the field -- technical terms (i.e "pericarp") need to be elaborated upon
 * - The "variations" section is misleading, as it talks more about organisms that are commonly mistaken for achenes rather than the actual variations of achnes
 * - Language is choppy overall
 * - I would like to know why achenes form
 * Sources
 * - https://www.britannica.com/science/achene
 * - https://ohioplants.org/fruits-achene/
 * - https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/termfr2.htm
 * - https://www.thedailygarden.us/garden-word-of-the-day/achene
 * - https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/termfr2.htm
 * - https://www.thedailygarden.us/garden-word-of-the-day/achene

Option 4

 * Ecotope
 * - It would be helpful if the article included more visual elements
 * - Examples of ecotopes would be useful to help readers gain a greater understanding
 * - There's only 1 section... perhaps the variety of information could warrant more?
 * - There are grammatical errors and issues with flow (ex. sentence beginning "In 1945 Carl Troll...)
 * - Does't elaborate on how ecotopes are used for the "mapping of landscape structure, function and change."
 * - Uh I think I found plagiarism .. https://ecotope.org/about/ecotopes/ -- see sentence 2 of article
 * Sources
 * - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/282837
 * - https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/283018
 * - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1111/j.1440-1703.2003.00603.x
 * - https://www.ajol.info/index.php/wsa/article/view/50903
 * - https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1937435
 * - https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/3/354
 * - https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1937435
 * - https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/3/354

Option 5

 * Pollen core
 * - There should be more examples of how pollen cores are used to study changes in climate and land use
 * - The article could benefit from images of the actual pollen cores
 * - The methods section uses a lot of complicated jargon that is not compatible with a general audience
 * - It seems like this article references a lot of other articles rather than explaining the terms relevant to pollen cores in the article itself. This indicates to me that it either belongs in a subsection of an existing article or that the linked terms should be elaborated upon within the article.
 * - Reference to a pollen coring study could be useful
 * - Plagiarism in first 3 sentences? See: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/pollen-core/m04z1vs?hl=en
 * Sources
 * - https://serc.carleton.edu/eslabs/weather/6c.html
 * - https://www.jstor.org/stable/3687626#metadata_info_tab_contents
 * - https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/482627
 * Resources were scarce!
 * - https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/482627
 * Resources were scarce!