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Article Evaluation
This article on human migration, has some stronger and weaker sides. Here are some thoughts on how the article appears to me as a reader. The structure in terms of sub-headings and themes, is relatively good, going from statistics to migration theories. The article is relevant to the topic, and refers to a various set of references. However, there are a few points that could improve the article significantly, in terms of citations, structure and content.

The introduction opens the article with some basic categories, creating a context for the following parts. The categories are in the beginning easy to follow, but the citation in this part is weak. Unfortunately this counts for every section of the article. For example, the article was written in 2014, and the first citation refers to a webpage called http://migrationsmap.net/#/USA/arrivals, last updated march 2007, and not directly relevant to the sentence. This shows some of the references are out of date. The photos attached are also missing citations. The part addressing statistics appears a bit confusing. The structure of the paragraphs appears a bit random, and makes it hard to follow, in my opinion. In terms of actual statistics, it would be easier and more informative if the article could be consequent in referring to the year of the data. For instance, the part showing the top ten migration countries, is missing a time reference. This part is already marked "when", which proves that the same problem has been seen by other editors already.

Under the Talk section, the article is rated C by several Wiki-projects.The good part about this is that other editors have red the content, and started a discussion. This is the start of improving the information Wikipedia can provide on human immigration. However, the rating is relatively low, and it is clear that this page needs to be updated, in terms of citations and structure, but also in terms of content. In class, we distinguish between economical theories and theories based on social relations. We make it clear that there are different approaches to migration. This article attempts to make the same point by referring to multiple theories. However, already in the introduction of the theories, which is intended to be neutral, the arguments tend to be rather economic. This provides a simplified picture of people's reasons to migrate. In addition to this, the main reference used in the theoretical section, is not accessible when you try to click on it. A way to improve this part could be by adding theories based on social capital and social networks, using multiple sources, and double checking that the link works. This article has a lot of potential, and with a little bit of editing, it will be better off to give people good basic information on human immigration.