User:Fiodora/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 Bushtit
 * Article Evaluation:I believe this article is relevant to the topic since American bushtit is an animal that inhabits some parts of California. Moreover, it is written in neutrally and professionally. Nevertheless, I still think this article can be improve since it lacks of citation. For instance, this article talks about their personalities which are active and gregarious, but there is no citation. However, I believe that the citations that this article do have are reliable since they are academic journal articles. Furthermore. this article does not contain any strong opinion of the writers. Overall, I personally feel like this article has a potential. If I choose this article, I believe I would be able to write more about their nesting ways; from what, how, and where.
 * Sources:https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/bushtit#:~:text=Nest%20site%20is%20in%20a,which%20opens%20into%20nest%20chamber. https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bushtit/overview https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Bushtit/lifehistory

Option 2

 * Article title:Stoat
 * Article Evaluation:I believe this article is relevant to the topic since Stoat is one of the animals that inhabit some parts of California. Furthermore, it is written in neutrally, professionally, and does not contain any strong opinion of the writers. Even though this article has reliable sources and citations that support its information, I think it can be more developed. I can write about how they acts on cold days; they don't hibernate.
 * Sources:https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/stoat#:~:text=All%20year%20round%20%2D%20Stoats%20do,particularly%20rabbits%20and%20small%20rodents. https://www.explorit.org/post/the-color-changing-stoat

Option 3

 * Article title:Canis
 * Article Evaluation:I believe this article is relevant to the topic since Canis is one of the animals that inhabit some parts of California. Furthermore, it is written in neutrally, professionally, and does not contain any strong opinion of the writers. There are already a lot of information here too, from the evolution, bone structures, and even behavior. Nevertheless, I believe this article is lack of citations because there some words that should have a link that is included in this article; for instance when the species like Lupulella Hilzheimer was introduced, they did not put any links. Moreover, if I ended up choosing this topic as my article, I would write more information about how they hibernate; only one species that hibernates which is the raccoon dog. Also, more of their social behavior.
 * Sources:https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-only-canid-that-hibernates.html https://academic.oup.com/icb/article-pdf/7/2/365/247533/7-2-365.pdf

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