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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:Scottish Gaelic punk
 * Article Evaluation:- Provides a brief description of the topic.:- Article is notably mentioning more about one Scottish Gaelic band rather than multiple.:- Doesn't have much history on the topic.:- References aren't very diverse.:- Some references are questionable at best.:- Images present that were somewhat related to the article, but only because the article talked more about the bands in the genre than the genre itself.
 * Potential Sources:- https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Scottish_Gaelic_punk :- https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/1889896

Option 2

 * Article title:Gaelic folk music
 * Article Evaluation:- Does not have a lot of information on it.:- References are all websites.:- Multiple links were not working.:- Lists topics but doesn't go into much depth about them.:- Does have a chord scale which was cool to see, but it doesn't explain that much.:- No media added.
 * Potential Sources:- https://www.dkfindout.com/us/music-art-and-literature/types-music/celtic/ :- https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-traditional-music-history :- https://www.emc-imc.org/fileadmin/5_Press_news/Music_N_Heritage/isolated_essays/17._Snapshots_on_Music_and_Heritage_p.100-106_Brian_O_hEadhra.pdf

Option 3

 * Article title:Cape Breton fiddling
 * Article Evaluation:- Has a decent amount of information.:- Would've liked to see a snippet of audio.:- Image isn't fitting for the article.:- Has only one reference and the link doesn't even work.
 * Potential Sources:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAjVRKUlk2I :- https://jsis.washington.edu/canada/music-collection/cape-brenton-music/ :- https://bowingdownhome.ca/islandora/object/bdh%3A2620

Option 4

 * Article title:Reel (dance)
 * Article Evaluation:- The article had audio listed as well as relevant images which was a nice touch.:- Could use some more information.:- Doesn't have many references but they are rather diverse.:- Mostly mentions appearances of reels in Quebec with some mention in England, but not in other areas.:- Does have valid citations.:- Could use more references, though the current ones are pretty scholarly.
 * Potential Sources:- https://www.britannica.com/art/reel-dance :- https://rscds.org/learn/music-resources/types-tunes/reels :- https://www.britannica.com/art/reel-dance#ref96859

Option 5

 * Article title:Strathspey (dance)
 * Article Evaluation:- Immediately met by a wall of text with no breaks of other broader topics.:- Has a decent amount of references, pretty diverse.:- Article expands on its info pretty well, though it'd be nice to see it organized more clearly.:- No media present.
 * Potential Sources:- https://rscds.org/learn/music-resources/types-tunes/strathspeys :- https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/strathspeys.html :- https://bagpipe.news/2020/12/19/the-strathspey-in-scottish-music/