User:Joyceleung11/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
 * Tiwi Land Council


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article clearly describes the 5W's of the land council's establishment, and contains additional information that are relevant to the topic, such as its vision and specific areas of operation. The content is fairly up to date with information that were retrieved from 2013 and 2019 respectively. The article could potentially expand on the reason on why it was established, in relation to its resistance against the Australian government that imposed laws to take away the indigenous communities' rights. That could potentially introduce a historically underrepresented topic, or another viewpoint without being biased.
 * All the specific sources seem to be updated and backed up by a credible secondary source of information: published documents from the National Library of Australia and information from the Tiwi Land Council's website themselves. The website is also an official government website, and include historically marginalized individuals as they are constituted by information given from the Tiwi community members themselves.
 * The article is concise, straightforward, no spelling or grammatical errors and broken down into coherent sections that make sense to the reader. However, there are no images or videos available. There are no discussions on the talk page, and the article has been rated as stub-class on the project's quality scale and low on the project's importance scale.
 * Overall, the article is very clear on the background information of Tiwi Land Council itself, but still needs more information in regards to its historical importance and viewpoints from the Tiwi members themselves.
 * The article is concise, straightforward, no spelling or grammatical errors and broken down into coherent sections that make sense to the reader. However, there are no images or videos available. There are no discussions on the talk page, and the article has been rated as stub-class on the project's quality scale and low on the project's importance scale.
 * Overall, the article is very clear on the background information of Tiwi Land Council itself, but still needs more information in regards to its historical importance and viewpoints from the Tiwi members themselves.
 * Overall, the article is very clear on the background information of Tiwi Land Council itself, but still needs more information in regards to its historical importance and viewpoints from the Tiwi members themselves.


 * Sources

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Tiwi Language
 * Tiwi Language


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's lead;s includes an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic of what the Tiwi language is, the community where it is spoken primarily, and additional information about its uniqueness (being spoken by 10% of Australian languages that are learned by children). It also mentions the linguistic category for the language, its rich morphological inventories and relation to a language isolate. Notably, the lead also links the impact that the Tiwi language has faced in the contemporary times. The lead appears to have a good balance of conciseness and detailed information.
 * The article's content takes a specific approach to the language's various linguistic aspects, such as phonology, morphology and modern vocabulary. Its content is relevant and up to date, particularly since it takes into account of how the language has changed linguistically as the modern Tiwi dialect emerged over time. It somewhat addresses the equity gap by providing the reason for its changes in the verb morphology and lexicon, where it was due to contact with Europeans in the past. It clearly indicates and identifies the major change as the verb complexity.
 * The article is neutral with factual information on its linguistics systems and lexicon. Even as it mentioned the cause for the language change due to contact with Europeans, it is not heavily biased towards condemning or criticizing them in any way, but rather it states the change in a matter of fact manner.
 * The sources are somewhat recent with the most recent sources from 2017, and the oldest sources from 1940. The oldest sources were used to list the language's vocabulary, as well as the vocabulary items for other variations of the Tiwi language. The facts in the article are backed up by thorough, reliable sources that were retrieved from the Australian government's website (statistics data), academic research journals, published books and encyclopedias. However, the sources seem to be generally written and authored by European or Australian members, and seem to be lacking actual involvements or viewpoints from the indigenous community members themselves.
 * The article is concise, straightforward, no spelling or grammatical errors and broken down into coherent sections that make sense to the reader. However, there are no images or videos available. Its talk page features a few anecdotal comments about how the article will be expanded upon for a UCLA PhD student, as well as a comment pointing out the unclear information on the specific environments for the language's retroflex contrasts. The article has been rated as start-class on the project's quality scale and high on the project's importance scale.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of information that are clear and relevant to the topic of the Tiwi language. It is relatively well-developed for the language's linguistic components, albeit the outdated sources for the language's vocabulary items (these might be subject to continuous change). The article also features several scholarly sources or references that back up the information, but they do not include viewpoints or perspectives from historically underrepresented groups (ex. Tiwi members as the contributors). Lastly, the article can also be improved by including more unbiased information on the social aspects that influenced the language changes, as well as supporting images and videos for the page.
 * The sources are somewhat recent with the most recent sources from 2017, and the oldest sources from 1940. The oldest sources were used to list the language's vocabulary, as well as the vocabulary items for other variations of the Tiwi language. The facts in the article are backed up by thorough, reliable sources that were retrieved from the Australian government's website (statistics data), academic research journals, published books and encyclopedias. However, the sources seem to be generally written and authored by European or Australian members, and seem to be lacking actual involvements or viewpoints from the indigenous community members themselves.
 * The article is concise, straightforward, no spelling or grammatical errors and broken down into coherent sections that make sense to the reader. However, there are no images or videos available. Its talk page features a few anecdotal comments about how the article will be expanded upon for a UCLA PhD student, as well as a comment pointing out the unclear information on the specific environments for the language's retroflex contrasts. The article has been rated as start-class on the project's quality scale and high on the project's importance scale.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of information that are clear and relevant to the topic of the Tiwi language. It is relatively well-developed for the language's linguistic components, albeit the outdated sources for the language's vocabulary items (these might be subject to continuous change). The article also features several scholarly sources or references that back up the information, but they do not include viewpoints or perspectives from historically underrepresented groups (ex. Tiwi members as the contributors). Lastly, the article can also be improved by including more unbiased information on the social aspects that influenced the language changes, as well as supporting images and videos for the page.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of information that are clear and relevant to the topic of the Tiwi language. It is relatively well-developed for the language's linguistic components, albeit the outdated sources for the language's vocabulary items (these might be subject to continuous change). The article also features several scholarly sources or references that back up the information, but they do not include viewpoints or perspectives from historically underrepresented groups (ex. Tiwi members as the contributors). Lastly, the article can also be improved by including more unbiased information on the social aspects that influenced the language changes, as well as supporting images and videos for the page.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of information that are clear and relevant to the topic of the Tiwi language. It is relatively well-developed for the language's linguistic components, albeit the outdated sources for the language's vocabulary items (these might be subject to continuous change). The article also features several scholarly sources or references that back up the information, but they do not include viewpoints or perspectives from historically underrepresented groups (ex. Tiwi members as the contributors). Lastly, the article can also be improved by including more unbiased information on the social aspects that influenced the language changes, as well as supporting images and videos for the page.


 * Sources

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Language Assessment


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's lead includes a detailed yet straightforward statement that explains the its main focus, and the various contexts that it applies to (eg. school, workplace, immigration and citizenship), specific aspects that are involved in a standard assessment. It also addresses the equal importance that are placed on the knowledge and proficiency aspects in these tests.
 * The article's content is presented in a chronological and easy to understand manner, with its background history, main organizations involved around the world that conduct these language assessments and the scales commonly used in the assessments as well. The content appears to be up to date with the sources or references that were published within the previous 15 years, and the oldest source that was used was published in 2008. Most of the links work and appear to be credible, with scholarly journals, encyclopedias and published books from published authors and official organizations. However, one of the links does not work (http://hrd.apec.org/index.php/Language_Assessment). It addresses more historically underrepresented topics, namely the ethic codes of these assessments that have been expected to be adhered by the two main European organizations that conduct these language assessments, and mentioned how some of the journals have special issue volumes that address the ethics of these assessments that are carried out through various mediums. However, it is relatively unclear on which specific journals address this issue, and the article has only listed several journal examples with no particular indications.
 * The article is neutral and matter of fact, without attempting to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another (pushing them to favor language assessments or go against it).
 * In addition, the article sources are thorough and current, but they do not include historically marginalized individuals - specifically viewpoints, authors or contributors from the indigenous members or communities that have participated in initiatives that are for or against language assessments. The article also does not include many information on historic acts or indicences that were against language assessments.
 * The article is concise, straightforward, no spelling or grammatical errors and broken down into coherent sections that make sense to the reader. However, there are no images or videos available. There are no discussions on the talk page, and there are no ratings available for the article either.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of scholarly references and presents detailed information on the contexts and applications of language assessments. It touches upon the ethical codes of the language assessments, but do not contain a lot of opposing viewpoints on the issues and controversies surrounding language assessments themselves. The article can be further developed with images and videos that can serve to support the organizations, conferences and journals that include the language assessments.
 * In addition, the article sources are thorough and current, but they do not include historically marginalized individuals - specifically viewpoints, authors or contributors from the indigenous members or communities that have participated in initiatives that are for or against language assessments. The article also does not include many information on historic acts or indicences that were against language assessments.
 * The article is concise, straightforward, no spelling or grammatical errors and broken down into coherent sections that make sense to the reader. However, there are no images or videos available. There are no discussions on the talk page, and there are no ratings available for the article either.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of scholarly references and presents detailed information on the contexts and applications of language assessments. It touches upon the ethical codes of the language assessments, but do not contain a lot of opposing viewpoints on the issues and controversies surrounding language assessments themselves. The article can be further developed with images and videos that can serve to support the organizations, conferences and journals that include the language assessments.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of scholarly references and presents detailed information on the contexts and applications of language assessments. It touches upon the ethical codes of the language assessments, but do not contain a lot of opposing viewpoints on the issues and controversies surrounding language assessments themselves. The article can be further developed with images and videos that can serve to support the organizations, conferences and journals that include the language assessments.
 * Overall, the article contains a lot of scholarly references and presents detailed information on the contexts and applications of language assessments. It touches upon the ethical codes of the language assessments, but do not contain a lot of opposing viewpoints on the issues and controversies surrounding language assessments themselves. The article can be further developed with images and videos that can serve to support the organizations, conferences and journals that include the language assessments.


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 * Article Evaluation
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Option 5

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