User:Ajs2004/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

 * Article title
 * Lake Mendota


 * Article Evaluation
 * In my previous article evaluation for Lake Mendota, I explained that the introduction to the article should be expanded beyond the simple geography of the lake and that some of the human-based social and recreational activities performed on or by the lake should be transferred to the sentence with the one sentence on 'Beaches.' I also do strongly believe that there needs to be a lot of grammatical cleanup performed on the 'Lake study' section, and I would be very willing to add on to the meager sentence about the invasion of the spiny water flea starting in 2009, as my discussion paper for Aquatic Ecology reports on the consequences of the invasion on native Daphnia species.


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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Lake Monona


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article for Lake Monona is structured very similar to that for Lake Mendota, although its content is even less than that for Lake Mendota. The introduction is more expansive, covering both the geography and the nomenclature of Lake Monona, and its physical description is less ridden with errors, and I am impressed that unlike for Lake Mendota, Lake Monona has a short list of some of the native fish species. However, there is no information about the human use of the lake, and the sole bit of history (the death of Otis Redding) seems out of place. In addition, there are very few sources provided for the article, and the info-box for the physical characteristics of the lake is sorely incomplete as compared to the masterful one for Lake Mendota.


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Option 3

 * Article title
 * Yahara River


 * Article Evaluation
 * The Yahara River is one of the primary inflows for both Lake Mendota and Lake Monona and so is very relevant to those two articles, which I have previously described. The introduction again focuses solely on geography but does explain its drainage basin and its relationship to the all-important Mississippi River, but the article itself only has one main section entitled 'Description,' just like that for Lake Monona (a second section entitled 'Etymology' is only one sentence long). Again, there is no information about the human use of the lake, but the map and physical characteristics of the river as shown in the info-box are well done. Most of the five sources reference the U.S. Geological Survey, which I believe to be too limited a focus for the article, and I would work to diversify the sources to explain more of the historical and current use of the river.


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