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Article Evaluation

Ancient Egyptian technology

Heading of Later Technology in Egypt

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
  • Most things are, however, some parts are not talking about technology and is just mentioning size of cities in Egypt during the time periods of interest.
• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
  • There are sections that claim that certain cities were the most prosperous in the world at the time. It is made worse because they do not have any citations for their claims.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
  • Either the article title is too broad, or they have very little information for what the title claims.
• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
  • The citations that exist are fine, but there aren't citations for some claims that are made.
• 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?
  • Not really. I said most of my thoughts in the above question
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
  • I'm not sure. I do know that a lot of information is missing though.
• 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?
  • They are talking about different things that need improving and to-do lists for the article.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
  • Start class and C class for the different sections of the article.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
  • We haven't talked about this in class.

History of Spectroscopy Article Edit

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History of spectroscopy

We chose this article because it is an interesting topic to us, and the article needs quite a bit of work. There is no information on modern history of spectroscopy and not very much information on early spectroscopy, and we believe we can contribute much to it.

http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/history/history-modern.html - history of modern spectroscopy

https://www.accessscience.com/content/a-brief-history-of-spectroscopy/BR0213171 - a brief history of spectroscopy

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach//education/senior/astrophysics/spectro_history.html - historical introduction to spectroscopy

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ed068p631 - The early history of spectroscopy

https://history.aip.org/exhibits/cosmology/tools/tools-spectroscopy.htm - Spectroscopy and the birth of astrophysics