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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

 * Article title:
 * Akkermansia muciniphila
 * Article Evaluation:
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the article's content was relevant to the topic. Although it is heavily leaning on the human related aspects of this bacteria and lacking information about the organism itself.
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes the content and tone of the article are neutral.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Most claims have citations.
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, the citations seem reliable in terms of being peer reviewed journal articles.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No it does not.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too? There are no comments on the talk page


 * Sources
 * Sources are credible and cited. Further resources: "Zhang, T., Li, Q., Cheng, L., Buch, H., & Zhang, F. (2019). Akkermansia muciniphila is a promising probiotic. Microbial biotechnology, 12(6), 1109-1125."; "Yoon, H. S., Cho, C. H., Yun, M. S., Jang, S. J., You, H. J., Kim, J. H., ... & Ko, G. (2021). Akkermansia muciniphila secretes a glucagon-like peptide-1-inducing protein that improves glucose homeostasis and ameliorates metabolic disease in mice. Nature Microbiology, 6(5), 563-573."

Option 2

 * Article title:
 * Hygiene hypothesis


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes mostly. Although some information can be better presented in the context of the topic like the evolution of the adaptive immune system.
 * Is it written neutrally? No it makes interpretations and does not objectively present information from the source articles.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes although some are better than others and most are old articles.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too? The talk page for this article is very active with several contributions.


 * Sources
 * The sources used are reliable. Further resources: "Akdis, C. A. (2021). Does the epithelial barrier hypothesis explain the increase in allergy, autoimmunity and other chronic conditions?. Nature Reviews Immunology, 21(11), 739-751."; "Finlay, B. B., Amato, K. R., Azad, M., Blaser, M. J., Bosch, T. C., Chu, H., ... & Giles-Vernick, T. (2021). The hygiene hypothesis, the COVID pandemic, and consequences for the human microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(6), e2010217118."

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Germ-free animal


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? No it is not well cited.
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too? The talk page for this article has a few useful suggestions that can improve the article.


 * Sources
 * The sources in this article are reliable. I can further add information from other sources like "Jain, A., & Maurya, A. (2022). Germ-free Mice Technology: Opportunity for Future Research. In Gut Microbiome in Neurological Health and Disorders (pp. 271-296). Springer, Singapore" and "Balwan, W. K., & Saba, N. (2021). Gnotobiotic Animals in Life Science Research. Elementary Education Online, 20(1), 1944-1946."

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