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Urban Dictionary Article Edit
Urban Dictionary

Under the Application section, specifically Legal subsection, I added another court case that used Urban Dictionary to define a term. The term "to nut" was defined and subsequently used to reject a motion to dismiss a sexual harassment case.

Relevance and Distractions
After my initial scan, most of the information seemed pertinent and relevant. However, I do believe the information presented could be organized in a clearer manner, rather than a hodgepodge of tidbits. Mainly in the History section of the article, the timeline of the website was split up well. Although, the information found in each subsection could benefit from better formatting and overall explanation of the significance of the information being presented.

Neutrality
Overall, the article reads as quite neutral. Although, the creator of Urban Dictionary is quoted a few times which could impose a bit of bias. However, the article does not elaborate much on what Aaron Peckham said but rather kept to just quoting him. The talk page also suggests adding a "Criticism" section as to balance out a generally positive article. Some participants in the talk page suggest that Urban Dictionary is a "well of insult and nastiness" while many of the definitions appear sexual and "presumably made up by pre-adolescents". In this vein I agree that a criticism page of the current state of Urban Dictionary would be welcomed.

Neutral Sources
Most of the information regarding Urban Dictionary comes from UrbanDictionary.com itself or online news sources. The article does not site any information coming from a database or academic journals, so most of the news articles cited was the best editors could find in terms of neutrality. As previously mentioned, the article does omit the negative aspects of Urban Dictionary. In light of this, the articles cited appear to have a bias in that they did not acknowledge the poor aspects of the online dictionary.

Representation
To repeat, the positive viewpoint of Urban Dictionary was well represented. The negative aspects however were few to none.

Links
After clicking on some citations, it seems that some links are out of date and do not lead to the intended URL. Most of the links do in fact work fine though. As for plagiarizing, editors appeared to have paraphrased well in addition to citing their sources. Credit was given when quoting a source as well.

Out of Date Information
After visiting the talk page, there was much discussion over the ever changing website and the features it provides to the public. There may need to be changes regarding who can create entries on the website as well as the process of removing entries on the website. Information regarding IBM's Watson computer was recently added which was a good addition to the recent application and use of Urban Dictionary. The article could benefit from an addition of a "Most Popular Word of the Year" section as the article mentioned the most popular word of a year at least twice.