User:CassieA05/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
 * American National Corpus:Article Evaluation:Is the article's content relevant to the topic? This article discusses the overview of the American National Corpus and it relates to the language processing that we've gone over in class. Is it written neutrally? Yes this article is written neutrally because the article presents factual information and it adheres to Wikipedia's neutrality standards.  Does each claim have a citation? This article contains multiple references to scholarly sources that are used to back the articles claims  Are the citations reliable? Yes, the citations are from reputable sources within the field of linguistics such as the ACL and the LREC.  Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes this article contributes to addressing Wikipedia's equity gaps. The article provides a very comprehensive overview of computational linguistics  Talk Page: This article currently has nothing posted on their talk page.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Analytic language:
 * Article Evaluation:Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, it gives a overview and defines what a analytic language is. Is it written neutrally? Yes this article with the addition of one edit the article effectively displays information in a factual manner with citations to back the claim. Does each claim have a citation? Yes there is a very large list of citations at the bottom of the article that help to further the readers understanding. Are the citations reliable? Yes the citations are from reliable sources and these are articles are also cross referenced.  Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects) This article doesn't really need to take into account these characteristics and it isn't necessary to do so because it is simply discussing the topic of analytic language. Talk Page: The talk page is fully of people discussing the general topic of analytical language.

Option 3

 * Article title:Social influence bias
 * Article Evaluation Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, if gives a overview of the influence social media has on consumers.  Is it written neutrally? Yes this article explores both aspects of this topic. Does each claim have a citation? Yes there are results based off of studies shown in the article. Are the citations reliable? Yes, there are lots of cross referencing to other articles in addition to referencing credible sources. Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects) Its not completely necessary in the context of this article, so I wouldn't expect it to.

Option 4

 * Article title:Social media and identity
 * Article Evaluation:Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes it perfectly reflects the development between social media and identity. Is it written neutrally? The article takes a neutral stance throughout the entire article. Does each claim have a citation? Each claim is supported by referencing studies and multiple article to the claims. Are the citations reliable? the author provides substantial amounts of evidence and the citations are reliable.  Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects) Yes it discusses the impacts social media has on underrepresented or misrepresented populations, specifically adolescence:Talk Page: There is nothing on the page discussing this article.

Option 5

 * Article title:News propaganda
 * Article Evaluation:Is the article's content relevant to the topic? :Yes it discusses the impact propaganda has on a countries citizens and how the media influences what news is pushed forward and what is silenced. Is it written neutrally?
 * Multiple edits have been made to make this article more neutral by adding data from other countries to analyze, so with the edits made recently is takes a more neutral stance.  Does each claim have a citation?
 * Most do now that the document has been edited. Before previously certain statements regarding specific news outlets, did not have proper data, but now almost all the claims are cited.  Are the citations reliable?
 * The citations are reliable, but additional information is needed to back the claims made by the author.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects) Yes, it presents information from multiple different perspective regarding the topic of News Propaganda.
 * Talk Page: It is full of people discussing possible changes to the title but these chats were made several years ago, there is nothing current.