User:Terrapinoz/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
 * Monobenzyl phthalate


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a low-importance, stub-class page in WikiProjects Chemicals. I chose this article because I am designing a kinetics study in project lab dealing with this metabolite and it's glucuronide form. The article itself is minimal. The SDS portion of the article is up to date, however more could be included about its potential health hazards, including its potential as a UGT inhibitor. Additionally, nothing is mentioned about the compounds teratogenic effects. The mentioning of Mono-Butyl Phthalate seems unnecessary, or could be worded better. There is no history in the articles talk page. This article seems like it has room for improvement.


 * Sources
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobenzyl_phthalate
 * https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20396882/
 * https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2018.01.010

GLH comments: This looks like a good option. It seems several pages for phthalate esters were created and populated with a chem box and very little has been done on them since.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Amyl acetate


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a low-importance, stub-class page in WikiProjects Chemicals, as well as WikiProject Food and Drink, and WikiProject Occupational Safety and Health. The article has not be edited in over a decade, and its content is very minimal. There is brief commenting in the articles talk page, mostly confusion about nomenclature and title organization. There is no information about the compounds synthesis or production. The SDS portion of the article is thorough.


 * Sources
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyl_acetate

GLH comments: I'll add it, though it may be the case that this is not the most exciting chemical in the world, if the page has been there for a long time but nothing has been added.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Field effect (chemistry)


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is well organized and has a good lead, however it has no talk history. The article could improve grammatically. The diagrams are relevant, but could be arranged more neatly. There is no talk history and the article seems to have been written by one author. The content is relatively up to date, however the last source is from 2017 and additional instances of field effect evidence could be included in the article. Furthermore, information about history of discovery could be added into the article.


 * Sources
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_effect_(chemistry)

GLH comments: I will add it but I think there are problems with this page overall. It dose appear that only one wikipedian has significantly edited it, and this is the only page they have added. I'm also not convinced that there is a difference between this, inductive effects and accidental degeneracy. Sorry, this is an obscure area of quantum chemistry where I used to dabble (see also the work of Michael Paddon-Row at the University of New South Wales).