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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• Is any information out of date?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

User:Tmyh7/sandbox

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.

1. http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/history/history-modern.html - history of modern spectroscopy
2. https://www.accessscience.com/content/a-brief-history-of-spectroscopy/BR0213171 - a brief history of spectroscopy
3. http://www.atnf.csiro.au/outreach//education/senior/astrophysics/spectro_history.html - historical introduction to spectroscopy
4. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/ed068p631 - The early history of spectroscopy
5. https://history.aip.org/exhibits/cosmology/tools/tools-spectroscopy.htm - Spectroscopy and the birth of astrophysics

History of Spectroscopy edit section:

Laser spectroscopy

The laser was invented in 1960 by spectroscopists who took the concept of its predecessor, the maser, in the visible range of light. Lasers have gone on to significantly advance experimental spectroscopy. The laser light allowed for much higher precision experiments specifically in the uses of studying collisional effects of light as well as being able to accurately tell what each wavelength and frequency of light were, allowing for the invention of things such as laser atomic clocks. Lasers also made spectroscopy with respect to time more accurate by using speeds or decay times of photons at specific wavelengths and frequencies to keep time. [1] Ab6gc (talk) 16:47, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

• Expand on how lasers have been significant in the advancement of experimental spectroscopy and more examples of their application in science
• Why do lasers allow for higher precision?
• tell what each wavelength and frequency of light were, consider rewording this to flow smoother?
• (Lasers made spectroscopy more accurate in the aspect of time keeping by utilizing the speed and decay times of photons at specific wavelengths and frequencies.)Curtis Buxton (talk) 03:03, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

Mnwfk2 peer evaluation Mnwfk2 (talk) 18:27, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

• Add citations to sources for each sentence, even if an entire paragraph is from the same source
• Better define how lasers can be used in spectroscopy, and why this has made significant improvements to the technique
• The article is neutral, there are no claims that I could see that are biased
• The viewpoints you have focused on are very prevalent to the article, but it would be interesting to look into how laser spectroscopy has impacted different industries and scientific fields.