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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:1974 Xenia Tornado
 * Article Evaluation:The article itself isn't actually too bad it terms of content, it just needs to be expanded upon a bit. The meteorological synopsis could certainly be improved, and the aftermath section could be split into several subsections to further discuss how the city tried (and in some ways failed) to rebuild, since that has become extremely important to the community and how they remember this event. It's a c-class article, but was up for removal last February for some reason. It was ultimately decided that it should stay after information from a larger Wikipedia article was moved into the article just about Xenia. I think it's also worth mentioning some of the ways the tornado and the people who were victims of it have been memorialized over the years.
 * Sources:- Voices of Greene County Interviews- GCPL http://www.greenecountyroom.info/digital/collection/VoicesGC/search :- Tornado!- book by Polk Laffoon:- http://xeniatornado.com/ :- Natural Disaster Survey Report 74-1: The Widespread Tornado Outbreak of April 3-4, 1974. Washington, DC: US Department of Commerce, 1974.

Option 2

 * Article title:Ohio State Reformatory
 * Article Evaluation:The Ohio State Reformatory article is a start-class/c-class article. The last time it was substantially updated was in 2014, so I'd be interested to see if any additions or improvements have been made (specifically in the restoration segment) over the last ten years. The history section also leaves much to be desired, giving the bare-bones synopsis. While the movie Shawshank Redemption did make the facility famous, it also has a considerably dark and (in my opinion) fascinating history, which is largely glossed over at the moment. The reformatory is also supposedly haunted, making it a notable stop for dark tourists in the central Ohio area. The facility actually capitalizes on this and offers ghost tours, which is vaguely mentioned, but more research behind the supposed hauntings might be worth exploring.
 * Sources:- https://www.mrps.org/about :- https://ohiohistory.libguides.com/prison/OhioStateReformatory :- The Ohio State Reformatory- book by Nancy K. Darbey (2016):- https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p15005coll2/id/886/

Option 3

 * Article title:Jefferson Proving Ground
 * Article Evaluation:This article is only a start class/stub class, and appears to only have been edited once in 2018. While the original editor did a good job finding basic information about the Proving Ground, the history segment could be far expanded upon, as well as what the area is used for now. Apparently its biggest issue is unsourced material, although it seems to me that there just hasn't been much research done on the area in general. As it stands right now, everything in the article could be condensed into the lead section, so it either needs to be fleshed out further or substantially expanded upon.
 * Sources:- https://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/decommissioning/complex/jefferson-proving-ground-facility.html :- https://www.in.gov/indiana-national-guard/indiana-air-range-complex/jefferson-range/ :- https://clui.org/ludb/site/jefferson-proving-ground :- https://www.fws.gov/refuge/big-oaks/visit-us/locations/big-oaks-national-wildlife-refuge :- https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0502158 :- https://aec.army.mil/application/files/9216/9521/2238/FY23IAP-IN-JPG.pdf

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