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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
 * Alexandra Glagoleva-Arkadieva


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead section is simple but effective. There are only two sections in this article and very little information about Alexandra Glagoleva-Arkadieva's early life or personal life is present. The information is presented objectively and I like that there is a section dedicated to her research. The most major weakness of this article is that it only has five sources. Unfortunately for me some of them are in Russian. Because it is noted that she received international recognition I will try to see if I can find any additional life information in English.
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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Carolyn Parker


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is three paragraphs long and goes more deeply into information than is touched upon in the article. The early life and education section contains too much information about her relatives who were also notably involved in the sciences, however, due to the volume of information it should probably be contained in its own section. There is no section dedicated to research which may be due to confidentiality, but I will look into the possibility of more detail. The writing is strictly objective to the point of possibly being overly sparse. There are 16 citations listed from credible sources, the most notable omissions are anything relating to publications Carolyn Parker was involved in or direct citations to her work during her Masters at the University of Michigan or MIT. The talk page is empty, all recent edits have related to rating and tagging the article, and I couldn't find any discussion about content.
 * Sources
 * Range distribution of 122 Mev (pi⁺) and (pi⁻) mesons in brass | MIT Black History
 * Range distribution of 122 Mev (pi⁺) and (pi⁻) mesons in brass | MIT Black History

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Yvonne Clark


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is sufficiently informative and brief, giving a good overview of Yvonne Clark's important achievements. The section division was good and relevant information was in logical places. There was a bit of an overuse of direct quotes and the sentences sometimes told of issues without giving context giving the feeling that sources were being closely paraphrased. The career and research sections were to the point but barebones. With only 10 sources cited this article could benefit from more information. The awards section was a nice touch and added to the importance of the article. There has been some recent attention on the article in the edits, however, the talk page has only one contribution relating to a bad link in the citations.


 * Sources
 * Sisters in Science (book)
 * Black Women Scientists in the United States

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Fred Bagay


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is short and to the point, which is reflective of the length of the rest of the article. The writing style is clear and unbiased. There is a significant absence of information relating to Fred Bagay's personal life which is a section found in the majority of biographical Wikipedia articles. Hyperlinking could be improved in the article, especially in the Science Career section. The information that is present seems to be of good quality but the article is just too short. This article was a student article, there is no discussion on the talk page.


 * Sources
 * ASEE PEER - Enhancing Underrepresented Student Opportunities Through Faculty Mentoring And Peer Interactions
 * Radiation effects in the environment (Conference) | OSTI.GOV
 * Acceleration of multi‐species ions in CO2 laser‐produced plasmas: Experiments and theory | Physics of Fluids (PFL) | AIP Publishing

Option 5

 * Article title
 * K. Renee Horton


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section is well written. The tone of the article is neutral and the sections are well divided. I like the division between Early Life and Education. However, each section is relatively short, so this article could probably benefit from some more information. This article only has 10 citations. Because this is a biography of a living person I think there is likely more credible information out there that could be integrated into this article. Once again the talk page is empty and there have not been significant changes to the article recently.


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