User:CatByun/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
 * "Language family"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is very well written and easy to understand and there didn't seem to be any bias towards one position or perspective. The images however were difficult to read and therefore did not add anything to the content of the article. One of the biggest weaknesses of the article was the lack of in text citation. There was even a whole section that wasn't cited at all.


 * Sources
 * https://www.linguisticsociety.org/sites/default/files/e-learning/LSAInstitute--BalkanSprachbundSlides.pdf
 * http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lylecamp/CAMPBELL%20BLS%20isolates.pdf
 * https://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/languages-contact

Option 2

 * Article title
 * "Language isolate"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is well written but not all of the discussion is relevant to the sections. For example in the section "Looking for Relationships" the writer discusses signed language isolates but there is a separate section within the article on that topic that would be more appropriate for the information currently in the "Looking for Relationships" section. Also many citations are needed in the article and in the talk page many people are pointing out misinformation when the writer discuses specific language isolates such as Japanese and Native American Languages.


 * Sources
 * https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vGxQDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=relationships+of+language+isolates&ots=GngBXTtTCr&sig=YbKtDxhhM2P7mENffD2_CjGtARU#v=onepage&q=relationships%20of%20language%20isolates&f=false

Option 3

 * Article title
 * "Lingua Franca"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is well written with relevant content and cites many reliable sources. The images are relevant and provide additional useful information to supplement the information in the article. The article isn't biased and provides mostly all factual information but one addition that could be made is to discuss Lingua Franca's from a more linguistics centered perspective and talk about how they form morphologically from pidgins or creoles.


 * Sources
 * https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/67629/3/lingua%20francas%20of%20the%20world.pdf
 * https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-4578-0_9

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