User:745234R5/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Crime in El Salvador
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated start class and high importance. This article seems very outdated (the first line begins, "as of 2011 ...") and it is also quite short. The sections are very brief and I believe they leave out a lot of specifics—some paragraphs are only 2 or sentences—and there are not very many sources in the reference section compared to higher-rated articles I've seen. The last person to say something on the talk page was another college student editing it for a class in 2013.
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Option 2

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 * Economy of Costa Rica
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has been rated start class and top importance. The article did not seem particularly well-written and it had a lot of phrasing that did not seem totally neutral to me. It is heavily sources, but many of the economic statistics are extremely outdated now (most are from early 2010s). There are also certain subtopics of the article that have a lot less information than others, including Tourism and Agriculture, which seem pretty important. The talk section does not have much activity, and the last one I can see was someone commenting in 2010 about how they updates some statistics.
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 * United States intervention in Chile
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 * This article is rated C class and low importance. I think some parts of this article are a lot stronger than others, but it could definitely be improved. Some paragraphs offer overly-broad information without really justifying it, or state specific things in confusing ways. A lot of the beginning sections are extremely short—the first section, for instance, is only two sentences. It is also severely lacking in historical context about Chile prior to the time period in which American intervention occurred. It gives an extremely brief overview of Chilean government/society from the 1890s until the 1970 election of Allende, but it is very condensed. Additionally, the writing is extremely poorly organized and the opening sentences of some sections seem to have almost no relation to the title of that section or are presented extremely out of context. The last activity on the talk page was in 2004.
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