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Article Evaluation
Citing sources correctly and plagiarism are two very important things to look for while evaluating an article.

Citing Sources
Each statement in an article should have a supporting source. Reliable sources include textbooks, literature reviews, and books or publications published by experts in the field. Blogs from the internet should not be used, along with popular news articles. Scholarly research is required to have good sources and correct information.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined as "the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own", (Wikipedia). There are different types of plagiarism. For example, you might copy text and forget to credit the author, copy text exactly without crediting the author, or slightly change the words of the author. All of that is plagiarism. On wikipedia especially, nothing should be posted without a reference to a reliable source. Instead of copying words directly, you should paraphrase what you read and put it into your own words.

Article Evaluation House Urns culture
This article is titled "House Urns Culture." It does not have much information about it, however, all information is relevant to the topic. Nothing was distracting in the article, there just wasn't a lot of facts. There is a lot of information about where these were found and located, rather than what they are and what they were used for. There is one citation from a book from 1999. I searched this citation and it is legitimate. There are several facts on this that are not connected to sources. There are also several grammar errors, including spelling errors. A few sentences start incorrectly, with words that are not capitalized, and with words such as "but" or "so." This article is fairly recent, from October, 2017. There are no recent discussions on the talk page of this article. There could be a lot more information on this page about these types of urns. An article like this proves that not all sources are reliable (with all of the spelling and grammar errors), and furthers the need to check your sources when looking up information on the internet.

Plans For My Selected Article Baltic culture in Pomerania
This article only has a few sentences about the topic, and the location of the topic. There is very, little information given. There are two links of reference in the article. One is Early History of Pomerania, and the other is Dniepr Balts. The first link has a lot of information about Pomerania and is well put together. The second link is fairly empty with only a few sentences about the Balts. My plan is to find more information about the Balts, how this group is connected to Pomerania, and write about the history.

Lead
One great source that has already been used once on the page is a book titled "The Balts" by Marija Gimbutas. On pages 59-61 there is some information about pottery and graves. The current page is not organized very well, so I am going to make some categories. I am going to create a section for Art to include the information about pottery and graves. I will also create a section title for the second section of information, and add in my citations from the book found on Scribd.