Talk:Biodegradable athletic footwear

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The references should be checked to make sure they are reliable and appropriate for the topic.

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The Roy Society ref is not about footware, & doesn't mention it. What it is about is compositing & biodegradation, in a very general way, with emphasis on packaging material. It's open access here. It references nothing in the paragraph where it is used, & didn't have a link till I added it, so I wonder if anyone ever read it. At present, the entire section 5 has no relevant source at all.
I also wonder if anyone read the Toronto and UC theses cited, or just the abstract. Since one of them is specified as "print", I suspect it was just found in a library catalog without even seeing the abstract.
The Staikos reference, used widely, is unacceptable as given, since it specifies either the link nor the name of the journal nor the year of publication, and makes the common undergraduate error of thinking Ebsco Academic Search Complete is a source, rather than a place where sources can be accessed.
The Albertsson reference, used widely, is given as vol 157, but it doesn't say vol.157 of what.

I can fill all these in, and iI will if I think it's worth the trouble. But the only 3 references here that seem to actually mention shoes are the inaccessible Santa Barbara Thesis, a podiatrist's newsletter on the web, & the Staikos article from some unknown source.

 DGG ( talk ) 17:25, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW (not a comment on the overall validity of the article) the Staikos article is available here.[1] Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 19:14, 16 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]