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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

 * Cuneiform
 * -The content seems relevant; Sumerian cuneiform has grammar just like other written languages
 * -It seems neutral.
 * -This article has so many references that it's uncountable, and 3 citations; this article has an outright bibliography
 * -This article discusses a writing system that is native to Iraq, which is a marginalized group on the world stage
 * -The Talk page discusses the need to translate more tablets, transliteration challenges, and the need for better citations from better sources
 * Sources
 * Cooper, J. S. (1993). SUMERIAN AND ARYAN: Racial theory, academic politics and parisian assyriology. Revue De l'Histoire Des Religions, 210(2), 169-205.
 * Hyman, Malcolm D. "Of Glyphs and Glottography." Language & Communication, vol. 26, no. 3, 2006, pp. 231-249.
 * Cooper, J. S. (1993). SUMERIAN AND ARYAN: Racial theory, academic politics and parisian assyriology. Revue De l'Histoire Des Religions, 210(2), 169-205.
 * Hyman, Malcolm D. "Of Glyphs and Glottography." Language & Communication, vol. 26, no. 3, 2006, pp. 231-249.

Option 2

 * Ergative case
 * -The content seems relevant since the article directly deals with grammar (an ergative case seems to be the equivalent of the ellipses in English)
 * -It seems neutral.
 * -Only 3 citations and 1 reference- seems good, but the article might need more sources and citations.
 * -This article addresses a feature of ancient writing systems for cultures that are marginalized on the modern world stage
 * -In Talk page, there is a noteworthy comment pointing out that the article fails to cite anything prior to the year 1980
 * Sources:
 * Huber, Peter J. "On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Grammar: A Reexamination of OBGT VI-X." Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 59, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1-17.
 * Sources:
 * Huber, Peter J. "On the Old Babylonian Understanding of Grammar: A Reexamination of OBGT VI-X." Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 59, no. 1, 2007, pp. 1-17.

Option 3

 * Ligature (writing)
 * -The content in this article seems relevant since it deals with an aspect of written grammar that pushes two characters/symbols together to form a new single symbol such as æ.
 * -It seems neutral.
 * -This article has plenty of reliable references and good citations
 * -In the Talk page, there are comments pointing out missing information and what they perceive as mistakes; æ is suggested to be a single symbol, NOT a ligature
 * Sources:
 * Kłosowski, Piotr. "A Rule-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion System." Applied Sciences, vol. 12, no. 5, 2022, pp. 2758
 * HowardHill, T. H. "Early Modern Printers and the Standardization of English Spelling." The Modern Language Review, vol. 101, no. 1, 2006, pp. 16-29.
 * Kłosowski, Piotr. "A Rule-Based Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion System." Applied Sciences, vol. 12, no. 5, 2022, pp. 2758
 * HowardHill, T. H. "Early Modern Printers and the Standardization of English Spelling." The Modern Language Review, vol. 101, no. 1, 2006, pp. 16-29.

Option 4

 * Dingir
 * -The content seems relevant since Dingir is apart of Sumerian grammar and an important symbol.
 * -It seems neutral.
 * -The article has 4 citations, 2 references. Most of the citations don't have links, tough.
 * -This article discusses a grammar feature in ancient Sumerian, the ancestors of the people living in the MIddle East and who are marginalized on the modern world stage
 * -The Talk page has comments comparing this word to words in Turkish and Hungarian languages, with there being debate about any link between an isolate like Sumerian and Indo-European languages
 * Sources:
 * Rutz, Matthew T. "Textual Transmission between Babylonia and Susa: A New Solar Omen Compendium." Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, 2006, pp. 63-9
 * Derakhshani, Iahanshah. "Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan." Iran & the Caucasus, vol. 5, no. 1, 2001, pp. 7-26.
 * Rutz, Matthew T. "Textual Transmission between Babylonia and Susa: A New Solar Omen Compendium." Journal of Cuneiform Studies, vol. 58, no. 1, 2006, pp. 63-9
 * Derakhshani, Iahanshah. "Some Earliest Traces of the Aryan." Iran & the Caucasus, vol. 5, no. 1, 2001, pp. 7-26.

Option 5

 * Determinative
 * -This article seems relevant since Determinatives were featured in cuneiform and hieroglyphs, writing systems that were important to the Sumerian and Egyptian cultures.
 * -It seems neutral.
 * -4 citations and 1 reference, but one citation is a website that has since gone offline, though it still has an archived version still online
 * -This articles features an aspect of written grammar for ancient cultures that were predominately non-white and whose descendants are now marginalized on the modern world stage
 * -In the Talk page, there is debate about whether Determinatives can be written as lower case or upper case, etc.
 * Sources:
 * Hille, Kathryn, and Yeonsuk Cho. "Placement Testing: One Test, Two Tests, Three Tests? how Many Tests are Sufficient?" Language Testing, vol. 37, no. 3, 2020, pp. 453-471
 * Hagström, Josefin, and Anders Winman. "Virtually Overcoming Grammar Learning with 3D Application of Loci Mnemonics?" Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 32, no. 4, 2018, pp. 450-462.
 * Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín. "Motherhood, Evolutionary Psychology and Mirror Neurons Or: ‘Grammar is Politics by Other Means’." Feminist Theory, vol. 16, no. 2, 2015, pp. 171-187.
 * Hagström, Josefin, and Anders Winman. "Virtually Overcoming Grammar Learning with 3D Application of Loci Mnemonics?" Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 32, no. 4, 2018, pp. 450-462.
 * Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín. "Motherhood, Evolutionary Psychology and Mirror Neurons Or: ‘Grammar is Politics by Other Means’." Feminist Theory, vol. 16, no. 2, 2015, pp. 171-187.