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Article Evaluation
Choose an article on Wikipedia related to your course to read and evaluate. As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):

Article: Geography of South America


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Yes, everything in the article was relevant to the article topic. There was nothing that distracted me.
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * The article was neutral. There were not any biased claims.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * No.
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Of the citations and links that I tried, they worked and directed me to reliable, neutral sources that matched the claims in the article.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * No, everything seemed pretty up to date.
 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * The talk page has not been used recently. The conversations were mostly just of what people had added to the page.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * It is part of WikiProject Geography.
 * It has been rated as C-Class and as Top-importance


 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
 * It doesn't really differ from how we've discussed the topic in class. It just goes more in-depth.