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Evaluation of "Little Wheel Spin and Spin"
Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

yes, no

Is the information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Identify content gaps.

Information is up to date, but there is not a lot of information. A reasoning for why she wrote this album and what it means to Native Americans is needed. There should also be

some history on Buffy Sainte-Marie in regards to the album.

What else could be improved?

The impact that this album had on the general public and different people groups.

Review the lead section. Does it follower Wikipedia's guidelines to provide basic information and summarize the entire article?

The lead section does not give any information as to "why" the album was written and "how" Buffy Sainte-Marie went about doing this.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

It seems neutral, but it does not include any of the controversy that surrounds this album.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

The viewpoint of the author is underrepresented

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

yes

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? For example, does the writer use signal phrases to clearly identify the source of the information?

There are multiple facts that needs to be cited. This suggests bias because it is impossible to fact check the sources that the Wikipedia author found his information.

Now take a look at how others are talking about this facile on the talk page.

What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? How is the article rated? Is it apart of any WikiProjects?

There are no conversations on this talk page. The article is rated with sub-rated articles of low importance. It is apart of three Wikiprojects that all have a fair amount of depth to

them and are about music.

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

It does not seem to think that this album is very important, but our class has understood this to be a powerful album that was controversial in its time.

This Wikipedia page deserves a lot more depth and information. It is upsetting that there are no citations, and therefore, no way to fact check sources. This album is very powerful, and the Wikipedia page does not mention any of its impact.

Evaluation of Drama
Aside from the Background and Others sections, the page is very well put together and very inclusive of differing opinions. There is a lot more that could be added to this page. The Background is a little too brief; it should include more concrete information about the novel and the author's other novels. There are not enough "Others" sections, and there should be. There is a lot of differing opinions, and they should have their own distinct section to clearly label and analyze each argument. It could be label "Controversy About Drama". There are also a lot of sentence structure mistakes and weird or incorrect wording. The infobox could use a lot more depth, possibly a caption. The Summary section gives more information than is needed. It gives away the entire novel. Under the "Presentation of Questioning Identity and Coming Out" should include Callie's responses to her friends coming out to her because it shows the different ways people can approach this situation and why a lot of members of the LGBTQ+ community struggle to come out. I think the subjection of "Race" was well developed and was smart to include. All in all, this page is well developed, but there are definite improvements to be made, starting with making the entire page grammatically and structurally coherent and correct. Abate's ideas are not extremely well represented in this article, although if they were, the page would include bias. In the Analysis section under "Race," some of Abate main ideas are present, but the article should have included more examples and her further reasonings. It should be edited to explain possible reasonings for why the author used this play and why the characters did not have a more harsh reaction to it. If I edited it, I would add more depth to Abate's argument, but counter it with potential arguments that the author may use. I would use the illustration comparisons that Abate used in her article.

Bibliography for Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book
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I am posting a bibliography of sources that I am going to use to make changes to the Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book article.