User:Advythr/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

 * Pleistocene megafauna
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * The content in this article is relevant to the topic however many sections are stubs and the article overall is rated as S-class. One section that needs improvement is the "Extinction" section which is a stub. To improve this article, I would include more recent paleoecological research.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * The article is written neutrally and includes multiple scholarly views on topics, particularly on whether hominins contributed to megafauna extinctions.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * There are some claims without citations, or claims that would be more credible with better citations. For example this sentence, "At the present moment - according to this source, there is no definitive empirical evidence to suggest that hominins have had widespread impact on the biodiversity of Pleistocene Africa." would benefit from additional citations to support the claim that there is no scholarly consensus on the topic. Additionally, there are many multi-paragraph quotes in this article that I understand Wikipedia discourages.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Most of the citations are peer-reviewed articles but some citations are news articles (eg. reference #24, #25, #47). The sentences that cite these news articles would be improved if peer-reviewed sources were included. Overall however, there are no poor-quality citations.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * The article is not relevant to Wikipedia's equity gaps because it focuses on non-human animals.
 * 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.
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