User:MeanJarco/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Option 1

 *  <I was interested in possibly working on the Sports in Iraq Wikipedia article. I was interested in researching how other sports are played in Iraq, other than football and taekwondo, which are arguably the biggest sports there. I wanted to learn how successful Iraqi athletes are in terms of basketball, boxing, and so on. Unfortunately, this article isn’t very good. It lacks information, and its organization is sloppy. It is poorly illustrated, and lacks reliable sources. It also has a warning banner asking for more verification which is worrying. The talk page isn’t active, and it isn’t edited very often.>

Option 2

 *  <The Iraq War is one of the many reasons my family left Iraq and became refugees in Jordan and later came to the U.S. I was born in 2003 when it started and I was 8 when it ended in 2011, and my parents didn’t want us to worry about our family back home so they rarely talked about it in front of us. We were happy that Saddam was gone, it was great, but the U.S government left our country in shambles. The article is greatly detailed and is semi protected. The article is recently active and constantly updated with additional information. It is greatly illustrated and it has a great amount of sources.>

Option 3

 *  <This stadium is right outside of my family’s house back home in Basra! During the Gulf Cup, they could hear the audience screaming from their rooms! Last time we went in 2019, I think they were remodeling it or the outside lots around it, I might have some pictures I took somewhere! The article is a bit short and not well illustrated. The sources are reliable, but they could definitely be expanded. The talk page is just nominations for deletion of things, which is a bit concerning. The article hasn’t been edited in a bit, but there’s lots of room for expansion, like what it’s been/being used for. Recent activities in it and so on.>

Option 4

 *  <Thinking about where the prophets are buried reminded me of the world’s largest cemetery, the Wadi-us-Salaam. I have many family members buried there, and I was hoping to visit it this summer. I’ve seen pictures and heard about how hard it is to navigate. I was thinking this could be an article I enhance with illustrations later on after I visit it. It has decent information, but I know that it could definitely be expanded by quite a lot as it has a lot of history. It isn’t very well illustrated, but that might be because people take photos of their loved ones and don’t want to share the location of graves in case of grave robbers who could steal gifts left behind or dig up graves for valuables buried with their loved ones. It has a good amount of reliable sources, and it has recent editing activity. The talk page isn’t very active, but what’s there is civilized conversation and constructive criticism.>

Option 5

 *  <I love the art and history of Babylon. The main reason I was interested in this article was because I wanted to research about what was stolen from Babylon and taken elsewhere, and if they ever got any of it back. My parents would always talk about artifacts and things from Iraq’s past, but then end it with ‘oh but so and so stole that so it’s not in Iraq anymore.’ I want to learn more about that. It’s a great article, with lots of really great information. It’s well illustrated with artifacts and such. And its sources are reliable and trustworthy. It’s actively edited, although the talk page isn’t well used.>