Talk:Marcia Bates/@comment-5545986-20120924235401

Overall the wiki about Marcia Bates was very well written and you all provided a lot of information about her past academic history and accomplishments. You were able to discover interesting facts about her like her trip to Thailand with the Peace Corps which shows how dedicated she was to the field of Information Science. I also liked how you included her predictions in the Application to IT and ITC Professionals section. It really is amazing how she was able to accurately describe both the internet (“soon there really will be something approaching whole libraries accessible by computer”) and modern search engines (“a system that takes a request in natural language, goes off and searches the information store, and returns to the user the ideal best retrieved set of documents or information”).

However, one of the few issues I had with the wiki was that you did not site what article her comments came from. You mention two award winning papers she wrote later on in the wiki but I do not know for sure if that is where her predictions were made. The only other issue I had was that the article formatting became a little hard to read near the bottom and there is a typo ('''Search ' Strategy) near the bottom by the references section.

All the necessary sections that were required for assignment 1 were covered and the sources you included were reliable since I could clearly see where you got your information from. So after reviewing your wiki I would say you all did a great job!

-Jacob Thompson