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To Do List
Move Work To Wikipedia

Revise Work

Polish and Publish!

Article Evaluation
Article 1: Astronomy In The Medieval Islamic World

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?: ''I think everything in the article is relevant to the topic, however, I would've changed the placement of where the image of the astrolabe is and put it under the instruments section and replace that space with an overarching image of Islamic Astronomy! '' Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?: I think the article is neutral!

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?: I wished that the article talked more about Islamic Astronomy's influence on the Byzantine empire.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?: Yes

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?: I do think that a lot of the facts represented are reliable, however, I'm not denying that there is the possibility that I didn't see a fact misinterpreted.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?: I don't think so

Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?: Well this one user, Kautilya3 just absolutely dragged the original poster for not including the Bengali Calendar and it was done in such a passive aggressive way that I don't appreciate.

How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?: Rated Well

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?: ''I think this differs from the way we've talked in class by the fact that the article talks more about the influences Islamic Astronomy had on other empires rather than just discussing the tools and findings from that one area of the globe. ''

Article 2: Cosmology

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?: I think everything was fine, I just wish that the timeline chart of cosmology is up to date, so I think I'm gonna add my two cents in on adding the newer 2010 theories to the timeline.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?: I believe it is

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?: If there are, then I didn't see it.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?: Yes

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?: I believe the facts presented were backed up well, however, I can possible be wrong on this.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?: I don't think so

Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?: There weren't really any behind the scenes conversations going on on the Cosmology page unfortunately.

How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?: Rated Well

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?: This differs from the way we’ve talked about the topic in class because the users on the talk page are going more into technicalities about the history and actually going into such specific detail about a certain aspect of each article rather than us just discussing the topic generally.

Planned Contributions
Contributions for Cosmology: I plan on improving the article rather than making a completely new one. What I plan on fixing with cosmology is adding updates to the historical timeline of the cosmological practices since the last update was in 2007 and continuing finding citations for areas that need citations and read through and see any sentences that state something with a sense of guessing to the tone of the text. Nothing but facts for this article, no guesses. Contributions for Astronomy In The Medieval Islamic World: I plan on improving the article rather than making a completely new one. What I plan on fixing is the equipment imaging placement in the article. The astrolabe is out of place and I think I'm going to find an image that captures the general essence of Astronomy In The Medieval Islamic World with a description of what's going on in the image.

Although these edits may be minor, they need to be done and I do believe it'll benefit the overall conception of the articles.

Article Drafts
Cosmology

I'm also going to be adding LIGO to the "See Also" section of the article!

Astronomy In The Medieval Islamic World

Above will be the image that I'm using to replace the Astrolabe image at the top of the article and then move the Astrolabe image to the equipment section of the article. Because I do personally believe that this image reflects an overall essence of the concept of the page.

What else I'll be adding to the Later Period Section: In the late 13th century, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi created the Tusi Couple, as pictured above. The model would later be viable to Copernicus's understanding of these movements in his work during the Renaissance period.

And in the "Golden Age" Section Egyptian Astronomer Ibn Yunus was actually the first Astronomer to find fault in Ptolemy's calculations about the planet's movements and their peculiarity in the late 10th century. Ptolemy calculated that Earth's wobble, otherwise known as precession, varied 1 degree every 100 years. Ibn Yunus contradicted this finding by calculating that it was instead 1 degree every 70 years. This was impossible to believe, however, since it was still thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. Ibn Yunus and Ibn al-Shatir's findings were part of Copernicus's calculations to figure out that the sun was the center of the universe.