User:Keyle.horton/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
 * South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation


 * Article Evaluation
 * C-class article. There is a comment at the top of the article stating that additional citations are needed for verification. The quality of the writing is good. Some links in the 'Specialized Bodies' table do not work. The last edit was made in 2023, but nothing substantial. There is only one brief comment about SAARC relations with the United Nations even though this relationship seems to be the source of most of the activities of SAARC since the last summit in 2014.


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Option 2

 * Article title
 * International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development


 * Article Evaluation
 * Stub-class article that includes basic structure of the organization and a brief paragraph on programs. Most of the citations link directly to the ICIMOD website. Needs more information on transboundary governance.


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Option 3

 * Article title
 * Air pollution in India


 * Article Evaluation
 * C-class article. Good citations. Need more information on air pollution as a transboundary issue and how it connects to climate change.


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Option 4

 * Article title
 * Energy poverty


 * Article Evaluation
 * The first sentence has a grammatical error. It should say, "Energy poverty is the lack of access to modern energy services". The first section uses direct quotations instead of paraphrasing. Citation #4 is from 2002 –– that's rather outdated for speaking on the topic of trends in the use of biomass. It is also a direct quote. There is an extremely long direct quote under the subsection "Energy Ladder" and the data cited is from 2008 (or earlier). There is an extremely long direct quote under the subsection "Domestic energy poverty" as well with data cited from 2009. Citation #10 has an inactive hyperlink for the quoted "Archived copy". Citation #20 is a blog post, and I'm not sure that's actually a reputable source. Most of the Education subsection is supported by a single source, so it seems like more should be added there. Citation #21 is from 2001 (outdated). Citation #25 is from 2002 and the entire subsection "Development" is a direct quote from this source. It definitely needs to be updated and paraphrased. There is a missing citation under the "Climate Change" subsection. Citation #31 is a blog post (potentially unreliable). Under the subsection "Global South" there is a separate section for Africa. However, the citation used for this section is from 2002 (outdated) and it's not clear why Africa needs its own subsection. The section "Addressing energy poverty" is poorly written and does not have citations to support the entire first paragraph. The section "Addressing energy poverty" is poorly written and does not have citations to support the entire first paragraph. The last two subsections are both direct quotes from citations #42 and #43, and I'm not even sure they are correctly cited. Overall this article needs a lot of work.


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