User:TrevorDriggers/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
 * polybrominated biphenyl


 * Article Evaluation
 * - The PBB wiki page needs a good amount of work. I'd like to separate the health hazards section with a section designated to human harms and environmental harm that the PBB causes.


 * Sources
 * - https://europepmc.org/article/med/2826002
 * - this article addresses damages from PBBs in both the environment and human health. It investigates how many of the PBBs originated in farm animals and branched into humans due to distribution of contaminated foods.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Pthalate


 * Article Evaluation
 * - I'd like to add more about the history of pthalates to the wikipedia page.
 * - Also, there is only damages to humans listed on the page. There is an environmental effects section, but none of the information given relates to how the environment or other animals are damaged due to pthalates.


 * Sources
 * - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141113615000501?casa_token=k-j71PKNsJIAAAAA:81uW4iUYbYLEq4EPtmIIcXVS8g6VqJOLGEWBAsyPkylHaeFkmEwW1qbvNcjzxhrwCDriOu2wKsM
 * - the article above is a study on two fish species and a crustacean species that are found in two lagoons of Nigeria. All three species were tested for their bioaccumulation of pthalates.
 * - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mnfr.200800312?casa_token=MiL5k_Sh6HIAAAAA:QrJ3N9c4FKBqEHSwnl2zimTQAac2KtDk6uib7GFY5i0NFYH56_EevRmMcJurRSdkdJWpOerBagUGEOFJ
 * - this article discusses potential links between pthalate levels in an organisms body and their fertility levels. scientists test animals to see if fertility is truly affected.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * imidacloprid


 * Article Evaluation
 * - my main concern with this page is that there is no alternative uses page, which is what I'd like to add


 * Sources
 * - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-014-3628-7?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRolvanLZKXonjHpfsX64uktX6G%20lMI/0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4FRctjI%20SLDwEYGJlv6SgFS7jNMbZkz7gOXRE=&error=cookies_not_supported&code=29f04ad5-c8a2-4edf-840b-d05be3048eb3
 * - this article looks at two different alternatives for neonicotinoid insecticides to find safer alternatives to use

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