User:Carissa92/sandbox

Working Draft(s)

• Final article: User:Carissa92/sandbox/Final(Neuroscience-of-sex-differences)
• Article draft: User:Carissa92/sandbox/DraftClass(Neuroscience-of-sex-differences)

Article Evaluations

Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (no longer seriously considering)

(rated start-class, mid-importance by several WikiProjects, including WikiProject Women's Health.

• The introductory paragraph is well-written and succinctly presents the key information but does not include any citations (although this information is cited later in the article when the concepts are introduced in more detail).
• The "synthesis" section doesn't seem to contain enough information to warrant its own section. The first sentence could probably be combined in some way with the previous section ("structure") while the second sentence seems much more appropriate for the following section ("function").

• The information within the "function" section is poorly organized. For instance, I think GnRH should be identified as a neurohormone earlier in the article (although not necessarily in the introduction).
• A few sentences are awkward grammatically, such as " GnRH neurons originate in the nose and migrate into the brain, where they are scattered throughout the medial septum and hypothalamus and connected by very long >1-millimeter-long dendrites. These bundle together so they receive shared synaptic input, a process that allows them to synchronize their GnRH release."
• Some statement in the article seem wrong, and are in fact contradicted later in the same section. In particular, the assertion that the hormone is "one of the few confirmed examples of behavior influencing hormones, rather than the other way around."
• Some of the items in the references section are displayed only as links, rather than proper citations (author, article name, etc.)
• Interactions between users on the Talk Page are pretty polite. The last comment was in 2017, which was an automated post by a bot. The last user comment was in 2015.

Sexually Dimorphic Nucleus (no longer seriously considering)

(C-class/mid-importance in WikiProject Neuroscience; B-class/low-importance in Medicine; C-class/low-importance in Animal Anatomy)

• There is only one post on the Talk Page from 2010, stating that the article uses very technical language. After reviewing the article, I agree with this assessment and think that making the article more accessible for a general audience would be one of the best ways to improve it.
• Additionally, the article includes some specific results from individual studies without explaining how they are important or relevant in a more general context. The article may be improved by eliminating some of these statistics altogether.
• The article does do a very good job presenting opposing viewpoints in non-biased language while providing citations for these claims (ex. Role of SDN in Human Sexual Orientation).
• The final section (Other sexually dimorphic areas in the brain) is pretty underdeveloped and thus seems somewhat incomplete and confusing.
• The links in the reference section all appear functional. However, about half are to primary resources.

Article Selection

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Articles I'm more seriously considering

1. Neuroscience of sex differences
2. Neuroendocrinology
3. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (see my Article Evaluation above)
4. Calcitriol (i.e. Vitamin D) (see Article Evaluation aboce)