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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

 * Article title: Magmatic Water
 * Article Evaluation: The entire introduction is copy-and-pasted from another website; it contains important information, but it needs to be rephrased, using information from multiple sources. There is a section about stable isotopes, but this is not mentioned in the introduction. USGS mentions "Scientists study mantle water for clues about the Earth’s history and for its links to plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, the magnetic field, and mineral deposits," but there is no mention of the importance of studying magmatic water within this article. Ideally, this the introduction should be more broad, and moving some of the information to separate sections speaking of where magmatic water originates and its significance.
 * The sources are not up to date, and the only two sources were generated in 1986 and 1987. However, the two sources used appear to be good because they are from published academic papers. This does not include definitions.net, which was clearly used while creating this article.
 * The article is written from a neutral point of view. There are no images, and sections are poorly organized. There is no activity on this article's talk page.
 * My overall impression is that while this article was written from a neutral point of view, it is overly specific without containing pertinent background information. It is plagiarized and needs additional sources, and overall needs work done.
 * Sources: USGS, academic papers (Example 1, Example 2)

Option 2

 * Article title: Fracture (Mineralogy)
 * Article Evaluation: The introduction is a good overview, but I feel a new section on the chemistry behind fracture should be added, with a brief summary in the introduction. When minerals have a plane of weakness in their crystal lattice, this is where they will break, explaining why minerals such as pyrite have a cubic crystal system. Other minerals, such as quartz, are uniformly strong, or don't have planes of weakness. When this is the case, they will fracture irregularly. This article does not mention this phenomenon, and I feel it should include information behind why rocks fracture from a solid state chemistry perspective. The information in this article is relevant to the topic. Regarding citations, there are only two; one of these is is an article from an online crystal store, and the other is a book from 1990. These references need to be updated with current information, preferably from academic or government sources. This article is written from a neutral point of view and appears to have no biases. It is well-written with no obvious grammatical errors. Images are relevant with a concise caption of just the mineral's name, with more pertinent information adjacent to the image. The talk page is empty; however, this article is rated as mid-importance and is a part of WikiProject Rocks and Minerals.
 * Sources: geology review papers ( 1, ), government agencies (1,), academic websites (1, )

Option 3

 * Article title: Used Coffee Grounds
 * Article Evaluation: The introduction is concise and informative in relation to the length of the article. There is a section one sentence long about using used coffee grounds for fortune telling, which I feel should either be elaborated on or removed entirely. The main section that I feel should be added to this article is the chemistry of what happens to coffee grounds during brewing. This article is written from a neutral point of view, and contains several sources, about a third of which are from books or academic papers. The only section is this article is "usage," and if the chemistry section is added, it should be in a separate section about the associated chemical reactions. This article is rated "B-class," and the talk page is empty.
 * Sources: Websites ( 1, ), Academic papers (1, )