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Article 1: John Niparko

John Niparko was an otolaryngologist who served as a medical faculty member at JHU. He is best known for his work with cochlear implants. The article has been rated as Stub by Wikipedia. The current content on the page is relevant, but much more elaboration and expansion could be used. Furthermore, the article is in dire need of better organization via the use of subheadings, photos, and an overview box. The article is written neutrally, but reads mostly like a resume of his accomplishments and faculty appointments. Detailing these accomplishments and how they came about is one improvement idea. I'd also like to read more about the impact he still has today, like the organizations he founded and the funding he raised. All of the claims have a citation and they appear to be reliable, but I have to believe that there is more to this surgeon than the 10 lines this article gives him. There is no discussion on the talk page, but I suppose that is expected since it is a stub article and less than 4 people have edited it. Further examination of the medical archives and news sources could determine if I should proceed with this article, but I think it has a lot of potential for improvement from first glance.

Possible Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/health/risks-fall-hopes-rise-for-hearing-implants.html

Article 2: Paul Hugh Emmett

Paul Hugh Emmett was a engineering faculty member at JHU and worked on the Manhattan Project. Seeing as how famous that project is, I'd expect much more to be written about Emmett. Emmett must have also researched other topics, but those aren't noted in the article. Like the Niparko article, this article is in massive need of organization and photos. It is rated as Start by Wikipedia. The article only has one citation which is slightly concerning since that may imply that either Emmett isn't notable enough or that the person who wrote this article didn't dig enough to find sources about Emmett. The article is written neutrally, but some sentences are poor in wording. An entire article shouldn't be based off of one source, and many of the sentences in the article appear to be plagiarized from the source. There has been some discussion on the talk page, but it is over 2 years old. I would need to do more digging of sources to determine if Emmett is notable enough to dedicate an entire article to, but the article definitely has potential for improvement.

Possible Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360056408602564

Article 3: Louise L. Sloan

Sloan was an ophthalmologist at the JHU Wilmer Eye Institute. There is virtually no background information on her, and the rest of the article is only a few more lines in length. Thus, it is rated as a Stub by Wikipedia. I am a bit confused by the article since it states that she was a physician, but the article doesn't state that she had an MD degree or formal medical education training. There are only 3 sources, one of which directs to a page that does not concern Sloan. There isn't any discussion on the Talk page and the article has only been edited once over 2 years ago. I'd like to add a lot more about her early life and how she actually ended up at JHU. I imagine that it must have been difficult to land a faculty position as a woman in the early 20th century, so I am curious the adversity she faced. Lastly, more detail and sub-headers need to be given to her contributions to medicine, including the Sloan letters and clinical vision therapy. Even from a basic Google search, I found 2 articles concerning Sloan that weren't cited in the article, and I imagine the medical archives will have even more information on Sloan. There is also a research grant named after Sloan now. I think I could definitely improve this article.

Possible Sources: https://www.osa.org/en-us/history/biographies/bios/louise_l_sloan/

https://journals.lww.com/optvissci/Citation/1982/08000/Louise_L__Sloan,_Ph_D___1898_1982_.15.aspx

Article 4: Thomas Milton Rivers

Rivers was a bacteriologist/virologist who studied at JHU's medical school in the early 20th century. This article listed him as the "father of modern virology," a title that may not be the most neutral unless a consensus has been reached in the scientific community on his importance. Seeing as only 1 source is cited for that quote, I am hesitant to believe it. The only photo in the article is abysmal as it is a photo of Rivers' sculpted bust. There should definitely be a photo of him at some point if he passed away in the 1960's. He seems to have a very intriguing early life, which included going to the Panama Canal zone as a result of being diagnosed with a neuromuscular disease. I'm curious if there is more information on this portion of his life. The article is rated as Start by Wikipedia. There are only 3 rather reputable citations for this article. The American Philosophical Society has hundreds of letters of Rivers' archived online, but since they are primary sources, I'm not sure how well those would fit on Wikipedia. Rivers was also a veteran in the Second World War. Overall, I think that there is much room for improvement for this article.

Possible Sources: https://search.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.R52-ead.xml#detailedinventory

Article 5: George Otto Gey

Gey was a biologist at JHU who is best known for discovering and culturing the immortal HeLa cell line. This article is far more developed that the other 4 articles and is rated as Start by Wikipedia. There are a total of 6 articles cited and most of them seem to be reliable. I'd be interested in adding to the section about controversies since I recall that Lacks didn't consent to her cells being taken. The organization of this article is solid. There isn't a whole lot of activity on the Talk page, and most of the activity is 3 years old. If I found a lot more new information of Gey, I'd be interested in adding to his article. However, the article already seems relatively well fleshed out so I'm not sure how much more could be added to improve this article.

Possible Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/09/archives/george-o-gey-71-cancer-lab-head-cell-biologist-honored-for-tissue.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02seco.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/nih-finally-makes-good-henrietta-lacks-family-its-about-time-6C10867941