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Choosing an Article

Option 1

Black is beautiful

“Black is beautiful” is a cultural movement started in 1960s by African Americans to fight racism against black people.

Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the article’s content is relevant to the topic.

Is it written neutrally? Since the article discusses contentious topics such as racism and the importance of black identity it is difficult for this article to be without any emotion or bias. That being said, the article is written in a factual and informing tone that includes many references.

Does each claim have a citation? Yes, each claim has a citation.

Are the citations reliable? The citations seem to be reliable and there is a variety of different types of sources.

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes, it addresses a significant topic issue regarding the discrimination against black people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_is_beautiful

Option 2

Blikanasaurus

“Blikanasaurus” refers to a family of dinosaurs from late Triassic period (around 250 million years ago) in South Africa.

Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, this article’s content is relevant to the topic.

Is it written neutrally? Yes, it is written in a neutral tone.

Does each claim have a citation? Yes, for each claim there is a citation.

Are the citations reliable? The citations seem to be reliable.

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No, the article is informing us on facts about dinosaurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blikanasaurus

Option 3

Samuel Johnson

''Samuel Johnson was an English writer and poet with many other talents in English literature and art. He lived from 1709 to 1784.''

Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, this article’s content is relevant to the topic.

Is it written neutrally? Yes, it is written in a neutral tone.

Does each claim have a citation? Yes, for the most part each claim has a citation.

Are the citations reliable? There is a lot of information related to the topic which means there is a lot of sources needed. From what I have checked, it seems to be reliable.

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No, the article is informing us on facts about a famous writer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson

Option 4

News

This is an interesting article defining what “News” is.

Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, this article’s content is relevant to the topic, and I personally think the article is very deep and quite interesting.

Is it written neutrally? Yes, it is written in a neutral tone.

Does each claim have a citation? Yes, for the most part each claim has a citation.

Are the citations reliable? After looking at the references, I can conclude that most sources are coming from a reliable outlet.

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No, the article is informing us on the origin and facts on the what we call “news”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News

Option 5

Social Network

This article explains what is referred to as a “social network”.

Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, all the information in the article’s is related content.

Is it written neutrally? Yes, throughout the article the writer wrote in a neutral tone.

Does each claim have a citation? Most of the claims have a citation but I noticed a few don’t.

Are the citations reliable? The citations are mostly reliable sources.

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? No, the article is informing us on facts on social network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network