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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

 * Female genital mutilation in India
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Missing an identifiable lead section. The information provided here is very short and concise, but too concise and written in such a way that it does not have an academic voice. Furthermore, it does not outline or describe the major sections of the article.
 * - All content is up-to-date and has been published within the last 5 years. A wide range of information and sources are used. This being said, the article itself is quite short and lacks a detailed analysis of female genital mutilation in India. Focusing solely on one group, the article fails to provide an in-depth explanation of the extent of female mutilation and focuses on a small range of studies and information when dissecting the practices and consequences of this act. However, decent information is provided in terms of the opposition to such an act and Supreme Court interference.
 * - The tone and balance of the writing are quite neutral, although it could be written in a more academic voice. The article presents both oppositions to the act as well as those who support the cultural act. Concise in nature, the article is clear and easy to read with little to no grammatical errors and sectioned accordingly.
 * - When examining sources and references, as stated, all sources are current and all information is backed up with proper citations. The article uses a variety of sources, including news articles, studies, and academic sources, although it does appear to have heavy usage of news articles, and better peer-reviewed sources are available, such as those below.
 * - No usage of any pictures or diagrams
 * - The talk page shows the authors working together to provide reliable information and removing anything that does not fit in with wikipedias expectations (dead links, etc)
 * - This is a good starting point, could use more information and some editing for improvement but provides a solid base to the topic of female mutilation in India :
 * Sources
 * Nanda, A., & Ramani, V. (2022). The Prevalance of Female Genital Mutilation in India. Journal of Student Research (Houston, Tex.), 11(2). https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i2.3285
 * Uma, S. (2022). Clash of the Titans or Friendly Bedfellows? Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights in India. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20(2), 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2022.2065808 :
 * Uma, S. (2022). Clash of the Titans or Friendly Bedfellows? Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights in India. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20(2), 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2022.2065808 :
 * Uma, S. (2022). Clash of the Titans or Friendly Bedfellows? Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights in India. The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20(2), 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2022.2065808 :

Option 2

 * Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America:
 * Article Evaluation
 * - The introduction is concise, clearly describes the topic, and provides relevant information for gender roles in Indigenous communities, although it does lack an outline of what is to come for the rest of the article by not outlining the future sections
 * - The content of the article is relevant to the subject and up-to-date on current practices; however, due to the nature of Indigenous studies, many of the sources are dated beyond 5 years, as is to be expected. The article touches on multiple Indigenous tribes and their respective expressions of gender roles, although some are much more in depth than others, leaving some sections of the article to be quite deficient
 * - When assessing the tone and balance of the article, certain sections are more represented than others, likely due to a lack of information on certain tribes. There does not appear to be any bias in the tone used within the article; however, edits could be made to the structure of some of the sentences, as well as using a more academic voice in the structure of the sentences
 * - The writing and structure of the article are clear and concise, with little to no grammatical errors and well organized into sections
 * - As stated earlier, many of the sources are not current, likely due to the nature of the subject, and more thorough research could likely be done on many of the tribes mentioned to provide a more in-depth understanding of the topic. Although the sources utilized in the article are thorough, other information could be used to support the sections of the article that appear to be less detailed
 * - Most of the information is backed up using citations; however, there are long sections or paragraphs that seem to go without a citation until the end, either in error in citing or the author speaking from personal information, which should not occur.
 * - All images used are labelled, linked, and have no issues with copyright
 * Overall, the article has a strong foundation but could be improved in terms of sentence structure, academic voice and including more detailed information
 * Sources
 * Frink, L., Shepard, R. S., & Reinhardt, G. A. (2002). Many faces of gender roles and relationships through time in Indigenous northern communities. University Press of Colorado.
 * Slater, S., & Yarbrough, F. A. (2022). Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 (NED - New edition, 2). University of South Carolina Press. :
 * Frink, L., Shepard, R. S., & Reinhardt, G. A. (2002). Many faces of gender roles and relationships through time in Indigenous northern communities. University Press of Colorado.
 * Slater, S., & Yarbrough, F. A. (2022). Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 (NED - New edition, 2). University of South Carolina Press. :
 * Slater, S., & Yarbrough, F. A. (2022). Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America, 1400-1850 (NED - New edition, 2). University of South Carolina Press. :

Option 3

 * decriminalization of homosexuality:
 * Article Evaluation
 * - The lead section of the article is only two sentences long and only provides a minute amount of information, specifically the definition of the decriminalization of homosexuality and where it has not taken place in the world. It lacks a description of the article's major sections and is overall too simple. It could include more information on what is to be discussed in the article.
 * - The content of the article is up-to-date, relevant and has been edited recently, using sources from within the past 5 years and from years before that due to the nature of the subject and history. The article includes the history of decriminalization, focusing on post-WWII and resistance to decriminalization; however, aside from these subsections, the article does not focus on decriminalization across other locations, such as North America, or touch heavily on the mentioned countries (in the lead) that have failed to decriminalize homosexuality.
 * - The tone and balance of the article do appear to be neutral, addressing the resistance to decriminalization but not perpetuating any biases towards homosexuality or the countries that have failed to decriminalize it.
 * - The work is sectioned into organized subsections and written in a clear, concise voice with little to no spelling errors
 * - All images used are labelled and abide by the copyright expectations of wikipedia
 * - When examining the sources and references on the page, all information is cited accordingly, with links working, and all information is backed up by reliable secondary sources. The sources themselves are in depth and many are legal and academic sources; however, the page itself could use a more detiled analysis using another variety of sources - The talk page for the article does not exist but is related to the WikiProject LGBT studies
 * Overall, the source is a good starting point but lacks plenty of crucial and necessary information to the subject matter and could be improved upon by utilizing a plethora of sources to expand the information provided in the article.
 * Sources
 * Alibudbud, R. (2022). Gender in mental health: The decriminalization of homosexuality and LGBT mental health in Singapore. Asian Journal of Psychiatry, 78, 103281–103281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2022.103281
 * Gerber, P., Raj, S., Wilkinson, C., & Langlois, A. (2021). Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Alternative Law Journal, 46(1), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X20986658
 * Ozsoy, E. C. (2021). Decolonizing Decriminalization Analyses: Did the Ottomans Decriminalize Homosexuality in 1858? Journal of Homosexuality, 68(12), 1979–2002. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2020.1715142 :
 * Gerber, P., Raj, S., Wilkinson, C., & Langlois, A. (2021). Protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people around the world: Beyond marriage equality and the decriminalisation of homosexuality. Alternative Law Journal, 46(1), 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X20986658
 * Ozsoy, E. C. (2021). Decolonizing Decriminalization Analyses: Did the Ottomans Decriminalize Homosexuality in 1858? Journal of Homosexuality, 68(12), 1979–2002. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2020.1715142 :
 * Ozsoy, E. C. (2021). Decolonizing Decriminalization Analyses: Did the Ottomans Decriminalize Homosexuality in 1858? Journal of Homosexuality, 68(12), 1979–2002. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2020.1715142 :