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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
 * History of Standard Chinese


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article’s content is relevant to the topic, however there could be more sections besides the few in this article. It is written neutrally, however very little of this article has proper citations. The few citations are reliable, as most of them are written by prominent experts in the field. This article does attempt to tackle one of Wikipedia’s equity gaps in coverage of a perhaps lesser-known subject in traditional education outside of China.


 * Sources
 * Coblin, W. South. "A Brief History of Mandarin." Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, no. 4 (2000): 537-52. Accessed October 10, 2020. doi:10.2307/606615.
 * Richard Vanness Simmons. "Whence Came Mandarin? Qīng Guānhuà, the Běijīng Dialect, and the National Language Standard in Early Republican China." Journal of the American Oriental Society 137, no. 1 (2017): 63-88. Accessed October 10, 2020. doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.137.1.0063.
 * Chen, Ping. "Modern Written Chinese in Development." Language in Society 22, no. 4 (1993): 505-37. Accessed October 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4168472.
 * Li, David Chen-ching. "Problems and Trends of Standardization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan." Anthropological Linguistics 27, no. 2 (1985): 122-40. Accessed October 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028062.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Min Chinese


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article’s content is relevant to the topic of the Min Chinese dialect and is written neutrally. Almost every claim has a citation and the citations are reliable as they are cited from academic journals and books. This article does attempt to tackle a Wikipedia equity gap in historical knowledge and underrepresented populations. However, I believe that this article could be more detailed and comprehensive.


 * Sources
 * Norman, Jerry. "The Mǐn Dialects in Historical Perspective." Journal of Chinese Linguistics Monograph Series, no. 3 (1991): 323-58. Accessed October 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23827042.
 * Kubler, Cornelius C. "The Influence of Southern Min on the Mandarin of Taiwan." Anthropological Linguistics 27, no. 2 (1985): 156-76. Accessed October 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028064.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * History of the Chinese Language


 * Article Evaluation
 * After doing some research, I have realized that the entirety of this article is plagiarized and taken from one singular source. The majority of the article’s content is relevant to the topic. However, I believe that the opening paragraph could be more concise and can explain the topic better. The article is written in a mostly neutral tone, but because almost all of the article lacks citations, there are some sentences that seem to be independent research or unfounded. The citations used are reliable, but there should be more coverage from scholarly journals or books than from newspaper articles. The article does attempt to tackle Wikipedia’s equity gaps in historical coverage. I think that overall this article can be much more detailed.


 * Sources
 * Li, David Chen-ching. "Problems and Trends of Standardization of Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan." Anthropological Linguistics 27, no. 2 (1985): 122-40. Accessed October 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30028062.
 * Coblin, W. South. "A Brief History of Mandarin." Journal of the American Oriental Society 120, no. 4 (2000): 537-52. Accessed October 10, 2020. doi:10.2307/606615.
 * Richard Vanness Simmons. "Whence Came Mandarin? Qīng Guānhuà, the Běijīng Dialect, and the National Language Standard in Early Republican China." Journal of the American Oriental Society 137, no. 1 (2017): 63-88. Accessed October 10, 2020. doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.137.1.0063.
 * Chen, Ping. "Modern Written Chinese in Development." Language in Society 22, no. 4 (1993): 505-37. Accessed October 10, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4168472.

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