User:Isabellam919/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 Media in New York City
 * Article Evaluation
 * Extensive talk page
 * Contains a lot of hyperlinks to other Wikipedia articles
 * Needs to be modernized/ updated
 * Contains grammatical and spelling errors
 * Does not have fair use to use certain images
 * Does not have fair use to use certain images


 * Sources
 * CNN
 * The New York Times
 * The Evening Post: Century of Journalism

Option 2

 * Article title Balloon boy hoax
 * Article Evaluation
 * Lots of disagreement in the talk page
 * Improvement of the article is needed as said in the talk pages
 * Doesn’t have reliable sources
 * Written in American English- Grammar mistakes
 * Still not in good article criteria
 * Still not in good article criteria


 * Sources
 * CNN
 * The Globe and Mail
 * Los Angles Times
 * FOXNews.com

Option 3

 * Article title Sexuality in music videos
 * Article Evaluation
 * Needs additional citations for verification
 * Written in a non-neutral tone
 * Presents an American view of the subject, not a worldwide view
 * Has an active talk page
 * A lot of disagreement on the talk page
 * Unreliable sources- magazines, gossip blogs and entertainment websites
 * Unreliable sources- magazines, gossip blogs and entertainment websites


 * Sources
 * Entertainment tonight
 * Rolling Stone
 * Michigan Sociological Review

Option 4

 * Article title CIA influence on public opinion
 * Article Evaluation
 * Contains original research
 * Requires cleanup to meet standards
 * Article lacks an effective lead
 * Article lacks an effective lead


 * Sources
 * NY Times Sunday Book Review
 * Harvard University Press
 * Saturday Evening Post

Option 5

 * Article title Lying press
 * Article Evaluation
 * There is a disagreement about the German derivative for the word “lying press”
 * Translation issues
 * Disagreement about how the word was used after WWII
 * Disagreement about not referring to Pegida (organization that re-popularized the word) an an “Islam a phobic far right organization”
 * A seemingly faulty reference where the cited newspaper page numbers are much greater than what a newspaper would have printed at the time
 * A seemingly faulty reference where the cited newspaper page numbers are much greater than what a newspaper would have printed at the time


 * Sources
 * CNN
 * Politico
 * The Telegraph