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Abortion in the Republic of Ireland

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Everything in the article related to the title, nothing distracted me however I was surprised that there was a section about all the major abortion incidents in Ireland.
• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? This article remains very neutral and factual, as far as I can tell it does not lead in any certain direction.
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? I don't believe that there is any overrespesented viewpoints, however the author does bring up many bad incidents that occurred as a result of Irelands strict abortion laws.
• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? The links all work for the citations, and yes the citations support the claims in the article.
• 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? Each fact is linked with a reliable and intellectual source, such as accredited newspapers, journals, and legislative pieces.
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? This article in up to date and has sources from June 2017.
• 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? The majority of the Talk page discusses whether the polls on public opinions about Irish abortion laws were credible or not. The Talk discussion came to the conclusion that all polls were reliable.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is rated as a C- class, mid importance and is apart of Wiki projects.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? The article is very direct and does not stray from fact, and while our discussion was based around facts, it also was biased.

Draft of Alice Ball Article:

Following her graduation, Ball was offered many scholarships. She had offers to attend both the University of California Berkeley and the University of Hawaii. She decided to move back to Hawaii to pursue a master's degree in chemistry. While she was studied at the University of Hawaii she studied chaulmoogra oil and its chemical properties. While chaulmoogra oil had previously been used for leprosy, however Alice Ball revolutionized it and made it injectable by discovering the ester ethyl form, meaning that it was water soluble and able to dissolve in the bloodstream. In 1915, she became the first woman and first African American to graduate with a master's degree from the University of Hawaii. Alice Ball was also the first African American and woman chemistry professor at the University of Hawaii's chemistry department. 

Chaulmoogra oil had previously been used in the treatment of Hansen's disease (leprosy) with mixed results and every form of the treatment had problems. Chaulmoogra oil was first used as a topical straight from the tree in eastern medicine starting in the 1300's. However, it was originally too sticky to be used effectively as a topical and it was extremely painful to be used as an injection. However, some hospitals still attempted to use it as an injection even though the sticky consistency of the oil caused it to clump under the skin and form blisters. These blisters formed in perfect rows and made the skin "look as if the patient's skin had been replaced by with bubble wrap."  Ingesting the oil was not effective either because it had an acrid taste that usually made the patients vomit upon attempting to swallow it.