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The Dubai Shopping Festival
Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) is an annual month long event put together by the Dubai Festivals & Retail Establishment (DFRE), which is a part of Dubai’s department of tourism. During the Festival, shops offer discounts on their merchandise, daily car raffles and prize drawings are held to win items such as gold and cars, and there is a fireworks display. There are also a range of family activities and live shows that take place throughout Dubai.

History
The Festival first began on February 16th, 1996 and took a total of 45 days to construct before launching. The idea for the festival was first created by Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum. This year will mark the 24th year since it began. The 24th edition of the Dubai Shopping Festival from 2018-2019 will take place for over five weeks, which marks the longest period of time that the festival has run so far. “One World, One Family, One Festival” is the motto for the Dubai Shopping Festival.

Economic Growth
The Festival was originally constructed to attract increases in the retail industry sector, but was later promoted as a tourist attraction. The first Dubai Shopping Festival in 1996 attracted more than one and a half million people who spent over of 500 million dollars during the one month event. These statistics have since grown, with more than three million people attending the festival and over 2 billion dollars being earned at the Dubai Shopping Festival in 2009. The Festival industry has been a big contributor in Dubai’s economy, helping to stimulate tourism and the retail market. In the most recent festival from 2018-2019, over 700 brand names and 3000 stores will have participated.

News
Multiple world records have been set in Dubai during the Dubai Shopping Festival. In 1999, the world's longest gold chain and sofa as well as the biggest chair, stationary bicycle, and mattress were shown at the festival. In 2001, the largest incense burner, shopping bag, and bowl of biriyani were displayed at the festival. In 2002, the largest entry visa in size was issued, along with the showcase of the largest magazine and box of chocolates. In 2004, the largest shopping cart and calendar, as well as the longest buffet were displayed. In 2006, the festival was postponed, and later cancelled due to the death of Dubai's ruler, sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al maktoum. In 2013, Dubai Metro held the first fashion show that took place on a moving train as a part of the DSF festivities.

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Possible Articles for Expansion
Environmental impact design

The article has a good range of content, all of which seem fairly relevant to the topic. The article sections are all written neutrally, and all sections, except for the "International Programs" section, seems to have citations. All the citations seem to be reliable, but there is room for expansion in the examples given.

Defensive design

This article could use a lot of work. The language used to write the article sometimes contains unnecessary words like "essentially" and "so as to". The article is written fairly neutrally, but has room for improvement. It is missing a lot, and could use many more examples for the "Examples" section. Additionally, it only has one source which points to another Wikipedia article, so its sources have a lot of room for expansion.

Oil reserves in the United Arab Emirates

I'm not sure if this article has room for expansion, but there is a possibility of adding related articles and sections such as the names of oil reserves and their different functions/types of oil reserves. Additionally, who manages the oil reserves. It only has one source, but the source is relevant because it comes directly from the UAE national website.

Law enforcement in the United Arab Emirates

This article, though containing information that seems fairly relevant and neutral to the topic, has no citations. It is a pretty broad topic though, so I'm not sure if it would be easy to expand on.

Dubai Shopping Festival

The article has two citations, of which one is a Guardian news article, but seems to be somewhat relevant. As it is such a large event, there is a lot of information that could be added to this, especially since there seem to be relevant journal articles talking about Dubai's Shopping and Festival scene.

lawsuits per capita - "politicians claim that laws must be changed because people are "lawsuit happy" and quote numbers which are not adjusted for population. No web resource exists that shows the steadily declining rate of personal lawsuits, per capita, in the USA for the last 200 years. This is a place where Wikipedia can help stop a misinformation meme by providing NPOV." - An article request with a brief summary. Seems like an interesting topic, but like the law enforcement of UAE, I'm not sure if it's a good enough subject.

Evaluating Content
Some things that distracted me were phrases like “in earnest” and leading expectations such as Michigan State having the “strongest” programs in communication.

There were a number of missing pieces to the article on communication studies. The first one I noticed was the lack of citations in the “History” portion of the article. The article states that “Michigan State was the first department in the US that was dedicated solely to the study of communication sciences using a quantitative approach. It is still one of Michigan State's strongest programs and nationally ranked in the study of human communication.” Though both these claims may be true, neither one is cited, and the latter statement seemed to be slightly biased in terming Michigan state as one of the strongest programs in communications.

Additionally, two sub disciplines of the National Communication Association mentioned in the "In the United States" portion of the article did not have any links to other Wikipedia articles. These disciplines were mass communication and critical-cultural communication. If there are no pages for these two disciplines created yet, it would be in the best interest of editors of this topic to start a new page on these topics, as it seems important to the “In the United States” section of the article.

Evaluating tone
The article is well structured overall, however it is slightly bottom-heavy, with there being not as much information in the “History” portion of the article than the “Scope” portion. Additionally, as mentioned above, the information that is given in the history portion lacks citations and has a leading rather than neutral tone.

Evaluating Sources
All the links that were provided in the references section worked. The first link on “Different Types of Communication and Channels” however was a somewhat questionable source, as it seems to come from a university lesson page. Although the information may be credible, there doesn’t seem to be many citations or peer reviews on the information. Though some of the articles may have been more biased, the data retrieved from these sources tended to have a neutral stance. However, if there was bias, it was not noted or mentioned.

Checking the talk page
In the talk page there seems to be mostly conversations about different propositions for revisions or additions to the page. For example, proposing additions of “political economy of communication” and other geographical education programs were mentioned. Additionally, sectional revision was also proposed. The article is a part of multiple WikiProjects including Sociology, Science, Media, Philosophy and Linguistics. I wasn’t able to find one exact rating for the article, but it seems to fall in many Start-Class and High or Top-Importance categories. In general, Wikipedia discusses this topic in a much more methodological and facts-based way than we normally do in class. Especially since communication doesn’t just involved factual information, in class we tend to discuss and analyse all the different ways communication can be assessed.

Page assessed: Communication studies