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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: El Nino ( El Niño)
 * Article Evaluation: The article's lead is in-depth and presents a detailed explanation of El Nino, how to climatically occurs, and how it affects different parts of the world differently. The outline of the article is profound, offering many different sub-topics on El Nino, including different countries' standards for what constitutes El Nino as well as how they are affected. The article also details the environmental, ecological, and socioeconomic effects that El Nino has on the world. Each continent is included in this article, so there doesn't seem to be much relevant information that's missing. There's a plethora of sources, especially academic journals and articles since this is a scientific topic. There are informative graphs and maps that help the reader better comprehend the article.
 * Sources: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997BAMS...78.2771T/abstract ; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/183555#page/491/mode/1up ; https://niwa.co.nz/news/el-ni%C3%B1o-expected-to-produce-severe-tropical-storms-in-the-southwest-pacific
 * Sources: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997BAMS...78.2771T/abstract ; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/183555#page/491/mode/1up ; https://niwa.co.nz/news/el-ni%C3%B1o-expected-to-produce-severe-tropical-storms-in-the-southwest-pacific
 * Sources: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997BAMS...78.2771T/abstract ; https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/183555#page/491/mode/1up ; https://niwa.co.nz/news/el-ni%C3%B1o-expected-to-produce-severe-tropical-storms-in-the-southwest-pacific

Option 2

 * Article title: Water Scarcity ( Water scarcity)
 * Article Evaluation: The article's lead is solid and very informative as it should be, and it is detailed in the sense that it includes all the important aspects of water scarcity. However, I think there is a lack of detail in the "regional examples" of water scarcity section; this is a flaw because water scarcity varies by region, so I think this section could be strengthened with much more information to give the reader a much better sense of how water scarcity varies across region. There does not seem to be any bias in this article, and all the important pieces of information are referenced and there are a lot of sources. Overall, I think this article is very good and informative, but the regional examples part, which is important for this topic, could be improved by adding more appropriate information.
 * Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377405002854?via%3Dihub ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6620919.stm ; https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh2867
 * Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377405002854?via%3Dihub ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6620919.stm ; https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh2867
 * Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378377405002854?via%3Dihub ; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6620919.stm ; https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abh2867

Option 3

 * Article title: Cape Town Water Crisis ( Cape Town water crisis)
 * Article Evaluation: I had not heard about this water crisis before, but I found the article very informative and lengthy in explaining the causes, consequences, and implications that arose from this water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa. This article is much longer than the other, more popular articles that I have read, but I think this length is appropriate because this water crisis is an important example of the crises that can ensue due to regional water scarcity. My main problem with this article is the sources: this is a very new event, so the majority of these sources come from news publications. This could potentially be bad since news publications are almost always biased, so the information that is referenced here may not be wholly accurate.
 * Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20180913113205/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/borehole-rules-can-you-use-sea-water-to-flush-the-city-answers-your-questions-20180130 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20180330211225/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/vulnerable-fear-cape-towns-water-shut-off-20180208 ; https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/01/cape-towns-water-crisis-response-needs-protect-rights-millions#
 * Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20180913113205/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/borehole-rules-can-you-use-sea-water-to-flush-the-city-answers-your-questions-20180130 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20180330211225/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/vulnerable-fear-cape-towns-water-shut-off-20180208 ; https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/01/cape-towns-water-crisis-response-needs-protect-rights-millions#
 * Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20180913113205/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/borehole-rules-can-you-use-sea-water-to-flush-the-city-answers-your-questions-20180130 ; https://web.archive.org/web/20180330211225/https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/vulnerable-fear-cape-towns-water-shut-off-20180208 ; https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/01/cape-towns-water-crisis-response-needs-protect-rights-millions#

Option 4

 * Article title: Water Security ( Water security)
 * Article Evaluation: this article clearly explains what water scarcity is, how it changes across regions as well as examples from different regions, and defines similar, related concepts to water security, namely water risk, water scarcity, and water conflict. This article could be strengthened by adding more information in various sections. The water scarcity and water risk could have more information added to them because these are important concepts that are not given much room in the article, despite their definitions explained. There are also scant examples of how water security has been addressed through different countries. Since water security is a regional issue and varies across the globe, more examples of how different countries respond to water security should be added. Overall, this article is solid, unbiased, and has solid sources, but good benefit from more information.
 * Sources: https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml ; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaba52 ; https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf
 * Sources: https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml ; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaba52 ; https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf
 * Sources: https://www.un.org/waterforlifedecade/scarcity.shtml ; https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aaba52 ; https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf

Option 5

 * Article title: Solar Water Heating ( Solar water heating)
 * Article Evaluation: This article gave a clear explanation of what solar water heating is and how it is one form of heating water that is more sustainable. The design, history, different methods, feasibility, and regional examples of solar water heating were clearly explained. A good amount of the article was dedicated to how different countries have carried out solar water heating, though this information seemed a bit biased since only the prominent countries were talked about. There didn't seem to be much discussion on how developing countries that are experimenting with solar water heating are doing - this is an important aspect of the topic that I think was ignored. The article's information was a bit questionable, since there were a few examples i saw where the information stated was not cited. Overall, the article is good, but could use some polishing up and inclusion of more information that's relevant.
 * Sources: http://californiasolarcenter.org/old-pages-with-inbound-links/history-solarthermal/ ; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990SoEn...45...93S/abstract ; https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/solar-water-heating/
 * Sources: http://californiasolarcenter.org/old-pages-with-inbound-links/history-solarthermal/ ; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990SoEn...45...93S/abstract ; https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/solar-water-heating/
 * Sources: http://californiasolarcenter.org/old-pages-with-inbound-links/history-solarthermal/ ; https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990SoEn...45...93S/abstract ; https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/advice/solar-water-heating/