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History of forensic entomology

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I've listed this article for peer review because this is an important and popular subject in forensic entomology, and we'd like to make this article as high quality as possible.

Thanks, ABrundage, Texas A&M University (talk) 02:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Review by karanacs

Howdy. This is an iniital review; please ask on my talk page if a more thorough review is desired after these changes have been implemented.

• A history article generally discusses the history in chronological order. The headings should refer to periods in the history generally. For this article, I'd recommend an introductory section that briefly explains what forensic entomology is. The next section could discuss Origins of the field, then 19th century methods, etc.
• The article should maintain a focus on the history. One section is written as a focus on people; the next as a focus on case studies while the third is more of a description of techniques. The article needs to instead be focused on events that happened in the history of the field and what impact those events had on the way the field developed. Sometimes this can simply be reworded to put the focus back on the chronology. For example, "Sung Tz’u was a lawyer and death investigator in the late 13th century. He wrote a guide commonly translated the “Washing Away of Wrongs” (洗冤集錄) in 1235 A.D. This book was to be used as a guide for other investigators so they could assess the scene of the crime efficiently" could be rewritten as "The first recorded account of forensic entomology's use in judicial proceedings was the guide "Washing Away of the Wrongs", written by Sun Tz'u, a lawyer and death investigator, in the late 13th century." Same information, but focus goes back to the history.
• A great deal of the article is still uncited. This will need to be fixed.
• There appear to be major gaps in the chronoloy. The article jumps from the late 13th century to 1855. Did anything happen in the field in the intervening 600 years? It then jumps another 200 years, from the 1890s to the 2000s. I would suspect that the bulk of the research in this field happened in the 1900s, but it is not explicitly mentioned here.
• The case studies should not be discussed in depth in this article. If a particular case study was very notable for its development or its influence on the field, then it should be mentioned, with an explanation of why it was significant in the history of the field. This article should not include a full description of the case studies though.
• Wikipedia articles don't have conclusions. The article should present the facts in an ordered manner and then stop.
• Other pieces of information that could be relevant to this article:
  • When did the first formal training in the field begin (actual classes)? How quickly has this formal training spread around the world? Are there degrees offered in this particular field, and if so, when and where were they first awards?
  • If there are particular organizations devoted to this field, when and where were they founded? How quickly did the membership grow or did the organization spread to other parts of the world?
  • Has the field entered various parts of the world at different times?

Karanacs (talk) 16:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)