User:Benberg11/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: Cosmology (Philosophy)
 * Article Evaluation: This article about cosmology contains a basic introduction to Cosmology as well as links to prominent philosophers who have studied cosmology. However, the article lacks a lot of depth. It lists one specific example of Cosmology about Leibniz and the monads he believes the universe is filled with. Other than this example there is not really any in depth examples of theories of Cosmology. For example they could have included more famous examples of philosophers theories of cosmology such as Misner's "Chaotic Cosmology Program". The inclusion of more theories would make the article more captivating and complete.
 * Rating:Start-Class
 * Sources:
 * https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/#TheoInitStat
 * Cosmology (philosophy)

Option 2

 * Article title: Lockean proviso
 * Article Evaluation: This article on the Lockean Proviso is actually pretty good. It is in my opinion more fleshed out than the previous article I evaluated for this project, which was the article on cosmology. This article did not have the same issues that the previous one did. The article contains good links to relevant philosophers, a photo of John Locke and a link to his personal page on Wikipedia. The article describes what the proviso is and how it came to be. My personal favorite aspect of the article is how it relates the proviso to modern day political policy. One idea I have to improve this article that could actually be a good idea for most philosophical articles is to provide a definition of the Lockean Proviso in laymen's terms. Philosophy is dense by nature and without lengthy context behind it can be very hard to understand. I believe I could improve this article by providing better context and a simpler definition of the Lockean Proviso
 * Rating:Unrated
 * Sources:
 * https://cyber.harvard.edu/IPCoop/74nozi.html
 * Lockean proviso
 * Lockean proviso

Option 3

 * Article title: Entitlement theory
 * Article Evaluation: This article contains more dense information than the previous two articles I have analyzed. There is a great connection between the Entitlement Theory and modern day issues it connects with. The article also does a stellar job of providing in depth analysis of criticism it received (see section "criticism") and other ideas that disagree with Entitlement Theory. My critique of this article is that it is less visually appealing and polished than the previous two. There is no picture of Nozick on the page and the article does not contain many links on the side. To improve this article I would put a picture of Nozick on the upper right side as well as accessible links to relevant topics. For example I would provide links to other entitlement theories, relevant philosophers, and other philosophy pages as well as other works of Nozick.
 * Rating:Start-Class
 * Sources:
 * https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nozick-political/
 * Entitlement theory
 * Entitlement theory

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