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Article Evaluation

Ancient Egyptian technology

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• 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• Is any information out of date?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:

Original Laser spectroscopy edit

Laser spectroscopy is a spectroscopic technique that uses lasers to be able determine the emitted frequencies of matter. The laser was invented because spectroscopists took the concept of its predecessor, the maser, and applied it to the visible and infrared ranges of light. The maser was invented by Charles Townes and other spectroscopists to stimulate matter to determine the frequencies that specific atoms and molecules emitted. While working on the maser, Townes realized that more accurate detections were possible as the frequency of the microwave emitted increased. This led to an idea a few years later to use the visible and eventually the infrared ranges of light for spectroscopy that became a reality with the help of Arthur Schawlow. Since then, 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 detect specific wavelengths and frequencies of light, allowing for the invention of devices such as laser atomic clocks. Lasers also made spectroscopy that used time methods more accurate by using speeds or decay times of photons at specific wavelengths and frequencies to keep time. Ab6gc (talk) 16:47, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Additions:

Laser spectroscopic techniques have been used for many different applications. One example is using laser spectroscopy to detect compounds in materials. One specific method is called Laser-induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy, and uses spectroscopic methods to be able to detect what materials are in a solid, liquid, or gas, in situ. This allows for direct testing of materials, instead of having to go to a lab to figure out what the solid, liquid, or gas is made of.

Peer review by Curtis Buxton

• 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)

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Peer review response

• While sources on experimental spectroscopy are few, I completely agree and will continue to try to look for sources. The why questions were also something that I didn't think about and will continue to look through my existing sources, and I will look for new sources on that information.
• I will definitely try to reword this, I had trouble figuring out a good way to say this without getting too close to the original article.
• I'm not sure what you are trying to say with the last bullet point. If I'm going to guess, it probably could be worded better, and I will try to reword it. Also, expanding these thoughts for clarity would be beneficial in my opinion. If possible, could you let me know if that was what you were wanting to say? Ab6gc (talk) 15:35, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Mnwfk2 peer evaluation

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

• 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.
• References
  • For reference number 2, maybe look at the references they list at the end of the article
  • Try to find articles specifically relating to lasers or laser spectroscopy and put information on how lasers work.
  • searching laser spectroscopy from the library website might get good results!
• 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 draft looks good so far you guys are doing a great job!!

Response to peer review

in tmyh7 sandbox.