User:Mtshiel/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
 * Autoimmune disease


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very neutral in tone, but does have a slight biased to a certain treatment research that is becoming available. Most of the 51 citations are either from medical literature reviews or journals. Some even utilize government website information. The article is of high-importance within the medical WikiProject and mid-importance for the cellular and molecular biology WikiProject. It is evaluated at a C-rating meaning there is plenty of room for improvement and fleshing out of the current information.


 * Sources
 * "Autoimmune Diseases: Symptoms & Causes". Boston Children's Hospital. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
 * Wang L, Wang FS, Gershwin ME. "Human autoimmune diseases: a comprehensive update". Journal of Internal Medicine. 278 (4): 369–95. doi:10.1111/joim.12395.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Antigen


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is neutral in tone and does nothing to persuade the reader in any way. There are currently 17 citations that vary from government websites, cancer and immune response literature reviews, and textbooks. The article is ranked as a top-priority for molecular and cellular biology WikiProject with a C-rating. There is still plenty of information that can be added like, the discovery of antigens, how they interact and bind to antibodies. The most recent conversation comes from April 5th, 2020, where someone was looking into the topic due to COVID-19 and asked for it to be redesigned to more layman terms. This was an echo of a previous statement regarding layman term changes in 2009.


 * Sources
 * Gallucci, S; Lolkema, M; Matzinger, P (November 1999). "Natural adjuvants: endogenous activators of dendritic cells". Nature Medicine. 5 (11): 1249–55. doi:10.1038/15200.
 * "Antigenic characterization". US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Blood typing


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article keeps an even tone and plainly states the information. Preventing any sort of bias or persuasion from being present. Each major content section is very fleshed out and descriptive in their explanations. There are currently 20 citations present. Of those citations, all of them come from secondary literature reviews and textbooks. This page is currently ranked at a C-rating with a high-importance within both the Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Biology WikiProjects. There hasn't been any conversation within the "Talk" page.


 * Sources
 * American Association of Blood Banks. "Joint Statement on Phasing-In RHD Genotyping for Pregnant Women and Other Females of Childbearing Potential with a Serologic Weak D Phenotype". American Association of Blood Banks – Statements. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
 * Westhoff, Connie M. (2019). "Blood group genotyping". Blood. 133 (17): 1814–1820. doi:10.1182/blood-2018-11-833954.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Cell death


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very neutral in tone with no persuasive undertones. The article is of mid-importance within the molecular and cellular biology WikiProject and has a C-rating. The article itself is very short with only three major content sections: "Programmed Cell Death", "Necrotic Cell Death", and "Etymology". These three sections are pretty fleshed out but missing certain sections like, "Causes", "History", and new "Research Directions". The article's images could use more fleshed out captions besides the process it is showing like, "apoptosis of a cell". The last conversation was in April of 2019 and only consists of a single comment without a response. The article has a decent amount of reliable sources at around 16 sources from literature reviews and journals. The article is noted as a "start" article so there is still much work that can be added.


 * Sources
 * Kroemer G, Martin SJ (2005). "Caspase-independent cell death". Nature Medicine. 11 (7): 725–30. doi:10.1038/nm1263.
 * Darzynkiewicz, Z; Juan, G; Li, X; Gorczyca, W; Murakami, T; Traganos, F (1997). "Cytometry in cell necrobiology: analysis of apoptosis and accidental cell death (necrosis)". Cytometry. 27 (1): 1–20. doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0320(19970101)27:1<1::aid-cyto2>3.0.co;2-l.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Judith Campisi


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very new and doesn't have much information present. It has a C-rating with a mid-importance rating for Cellular and Molecular Biology. There are only 3 present major content sections. The contents of those sections is very minimal except her research section. The tone is very neutral and even when talking about the successes of her research. There are currently 13 citations; some incorrectly inputted. The citations are mainly from literature reviews or secondary publications supporting her findings.


 * Sources
 * Coppé, Jean-Philippe et al. “The senescence-associated secretory phenotype: the dark side of tumor suppression.” Annual review of pathology vol. 5 (2010): 99-118. doi:10.1146/annurev-pathol-121808-102144