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Week 2: Article Evaluation
Article: Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

This article has a detailed and comprehensive introduction and summary of the financial crisis dating back to 2008. The article has been divided into several parts which are focused on its summary, causes, effects, government responses and so on. All the parts are important and necessary for the record of this big event. But I feel that the section "Media Coverage" is distracted for me to read this article. I think it shouldn't be an individual section for this event. People reading this article mainly because they care about the crisis itself and "Media Coverage" can be categorized into "See Also" session or titled as "related documents".

Week 4: Potential Topics

 * 1) Social capital I will modify the structure of the article following Wikipedia's layout guidelines.
 * 2) Social business I will improve citation for this article.
 * 3) Microfinance I will modify the contents of this article to be more understandable to non-experts.
 * 4) Borrowing center I will adding contents that representing a worldwide view of this subject.
 * 5) Civic consumption I will modify the tone and the style of this article writing following Wikipedia's layout guidelines.

Week 5: Improving an Existing Article: Borrowing Center
The notes in this page said that the article needs more content to represent a worldwide view of the subject. So I will develop a section about borrowing center in different countries. Here are three main areas I will talk about: North American, Europe and Asia.

In the North American section, borrowing center in Oakland is a typical example.And I will continue the introduction of Sharing Depot in Toronto,Canada, as the original article has mentioned it in the leading section.

In the Europe section, through a screenshot from the live “ Map of Tool Libraries and Libraries of Things” at Localtool.org, borrowing center is much less common in Europe than in North America. But this information I found is a piece of news(link: http://www.didiy.eu/blogs/library-didiy-tools-and-things-movement-still-missing-europe ), so the reliability of the source need to be considered. And the reason why there are fewer borrowing center in Europe is unsolved.

In the Asia section, some concepts similar to borrowing center exist.So there is a potential market to develop borrowing centers in Asian countries.

Week 6 Draft: Improving an Existing Article: Borrowing Center
Add a section: Similar Terms/Concepts

Tools Library

Sharing Center

Add a section: Borrowing Centers All Over the World

North American

Borrowing center in Oakland is a typical example.

Sharing Depot in Toronto,Canada

Europe

through a screenshot from the live “ Map of Tool Libraries and Libraries of Things” at Localtool.org, borrowing center is much less common in Europe than in North America. But this information I found is a piece of news(link: http://www.didiy.eu/blogs/library-didiy-tools-and-things-movement-still-missing-europe ), so the reliability of the source need to be considered. And the reason why there are fewer borrowing center in Europe is unsolved.

Asia

some concepts similar to borrowing center exist.So there is a potential market to develop borrowing centers in Asian countries.

Week 7 Peer Review
Questions by Rachel Lee

'''Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?'''

Yes, The article I chose talks about borrowing centers in Europe, but there is no sufficient research results on why there is fewer borrowing center in Europe than in North America.

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

The article only talks about borrowing centers in North American, in order to make it a neutral article, I will add sections about borrowing centers in other parts of the world.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

More viewpoints about borrowing centers such as pros and cons need to be added.

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

More reliable sources such as scholar essays and journals are needed.

'''Is each fact supported by an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?'''

This article needs more introductions with diversity of borrowing centers all over the world. So at current stage, it is not a neutral article.

'''Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that should be added?'''

More sections about borrowing centers in other parts of the world need to be added. And also the history development of borrowing center is needed.

Similar Terms/Concepts
Borrowing center is not a popular term to be used, Tools Library shares the same or similar functions and concept as borrowing center and this term has been used more often.

North American
Tools Library has a very high popularity in the United States, especially in the West Coast, and there is a website “Find Your Local Tool Lending Library - Local Tools”, which you can find closest Tools Library to you.

1.Tool Library in Berkeley

The First Tool Library started in 1979 in Berkeley, California, and now there are more than 40 tool libraries in North America.

2.Tool Lending library in Oakland

Tool Lending Library offers all kinds of practical tools as well as books, videos and DVDs. And it is free to Oakland, Emeryville, and Piedmont residents and property owners.

3.Sharing Depot in Toronto, Canada

The Sharing Depot has been called as Canada's First Library of Things and it was opened in 2016.

Europe
Through a screenshot from the live “Map of Tool Libraries and Libraries of Things” at Localtool.org, borrowing center is much less common in Europe than in North America. And the reason why there are fewer borrowing center in Europe is unsolved.

Asia
There is merely no this kind of centers in Asian counties, so there is a potential market to develop borrowing centers in Asian countries.