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Article Choice 1: Physical Organic Chemistry
I evaluated this article on my "Evaluate an Article" page, so you can look there for more specific critiques. In short, it is an article ranked low in quality but high in importance, and it is relevant to Organic Chemistry. However, there are some potential problems to working on this article: it might be too difficult to understand of a topic, and it might be too broad a topic (a specific reaction might be better to work on).

Lead Section
The entire article is basically the lead section; there are no headings other than the references. The first paragraph defines the type of reaction, and subsequent paragraphs give examples. The section is concise enough, but perhaps if the article is developed more the different examples would go in their own sections.

Content
Content is relevant to the article and relatively up to date (single reference was in 2007). There is not much content other than the definition and a couple examples. Perhaps more sections could be created, such as Applications, Thermodynamics and Kinetics, and History, or each of the examples could get their own section.

Tone and Balance
Tone is factual; no exaggerating language, etc.

Sources and References
The article relies entirely on a single source (although there is no banner indicating this, like in the Electrophilic Addition article). Furthermore, not all of the information in the article is supported by this source. Thus, this section needs a substantial amount of work.

Other Potential Sources to Use

 * https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Reference/Organic_Chemistry_Glossary/Addition-Elimination_Mechanism
 * I'm not entirely sure of whether this source would live up to Wikipedia's standards for source quality.
 * https://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/courses/353/Carey5th/Ch23/ch23-3-3.html
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Advanced_Organic_Chemistry/g5dYyJMBhCoC?hl=en&gbpv=0, page 474
 * May not be able to access all pages of
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Organic_Chemistry/txmp1aoCJp8C?hl=en&gbpv=0, page 669
 * May not be able to access all pages of
 * Could use other Organic Chemistry textbooks. One of our teachers has an "Advanced Organic Chemistry" textbook which probably has this reaction.

Organization and Writing Quality
For the short amount of content that is available, seems relatively well-written. Different examples are broken up into different paragraphs.

Images and Media
There are no images or media. Images and media would be good to add to show how the mechanism works.

Talk Page Discussion
The article is ranked as "Stub-Class" and "Low-Importance". There is no discussion on the talk page yet.

Overall Status
The article is a good start, but needs some more fleshing out. It is a specific Organic Chemistry reaction (not too broad, relevant to class), and "Stub-Class" (needs work on it), but is only "Low-Importance". If I could find a similar article that is of higher importance, it might be a better candidate to edit.

Lead Section
The lead section briefly describes what the reaction is, then goes into the thermodynamics, reaction mechanism, and regioselectivity in subsequent paragraphs. This probably concise enough, but if the article is developed more the different paragraphs could be split up into different sections.

Content
Not very much content. In addition to the lead section, there is just one more section, "Typical Electrophilic Additions", which lists different reactions in which electrophilic additions can come up and provides links to the corresponding Wikipedia articles. As I said earlier, perhaps the different paragraphs in the introduction could be developed into their own sections. Could have a section for "Applications" mentioning its use in polymerization of polyethylene and derivatives. Also, the article talks mainly about electrophilic additions to alkenes, but neglects alkynes.

Tone and Balance
Tone is factual; no exaggerating language, etc.

Sources and References
The article relies entirely on a single source. Furthermore, only one paragraph appears to be cited. Thus, this section needs a substantial amount of work.

Other Potential Sources to Use

 * https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Organic_Chemistry/Supplemental_Modules_(Organic_Chemistry)/Reactions/Addition_Reactions/Electrophilic_Addition_Reactions/The_Generalized_Electrophilic_Addition
 * Not sure whether this is high-quality enough
 * Lecture notes from a University: https://www1.lasalle.edu/~price/Electrophilic%20Addition%20Reactions.pdf
 * Lecture notes from another University: https://www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/virttxtjml/addene1.htm
 * More lecture notes: https://www.chem.ucalgary.ca/courses/351/Carey5th/Ch06/ch6-2.html
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Electrophilic_Additions_to_Unsaturated_S/4koXBQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
 * An entire book devoted to a specific kind of electrophilic addition. This would be good for a section on that kind of reaction, although it may already be on Wikipedia under another page.
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Electrophilic_Halogenation/YHc7AAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
 * Another entire book devoted to a specific kind of electrophilic addition.
 * https://www.google.com/books/edition/Addition_and_Elimination_Reactions_of_Al/OJevSztje7IC?hl=en&gbpv=0
 * Another entire book devoted to a specific kind of electrophilic addition.
 * Organic Chemistry textbooks. The book Advanced Organic Chemistry reactions, mechanisms and structure by Jerry March is already used, so it could be used more, but preferably another one should be found in addition.

Organization and Writing Quality
Seems relatively well-written, easy to understand.

Images and Media
Has several images detailing reaction mechanisms of the general reaction. More specific ones are probably found in other articles. Could include an additional image of the dipole introduced in a neutral molecule (like a halogen) by the pi bond; the images don't cover this specific step, maybe because it applies to more specific reactions.

Talk Page Discussion
The article is ranked as "Start-Class" and "High-Importance". It is also ranked as a "level-5 vital article in Science, Chemistry". There is no discussion on the talk page yet.

Overall Status
The article is a good start, but needs some more fleshing out. It is a specific Organic Chemistry reaction (not too broad, relevant to class), "Start-Class" (needs work on it), and rated highly in importance. This would probably be the best candidate to the 3 so far to do for the project, in case another group hasn't already decided to do this one.

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