User:Middents/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.

Option 1

 * "Paleolith"
 * Evaluation:
 * This article only has one sentence listed, so while there is a lot I could add, it might not fit with the project we're actually doing as we should only be adding one paragraph, and this topic would need the entire article. I feel like I don't have much to critique because it is so short. Yes, it is neutral, but that's because basically nothing has been said about it. There is a citation listed, however, so that's promising. There is also a single photo/graphic included.


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Option 2

 * "Bilateral Descent"
 * Evaluation
 * This article is a few paragraphs long, but I don't know if there's much more I could add to it. It appears to be written neutrally, with included citations. Examples have been included but not much has been expanded on their relevance to the topic (they are relevant, obviously, but it isn't explained how the listed examples are examples of bilateral descent. What about those groups/that structure marks them as bilateral descent groups?)


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Option 3

 * "Classificatory Kinship"
 * Evaluation:
 * The article is extremely short, which leaves me a lot of room to work and add something to it. If I were to choose this article I would probably expand on the types of kinship relationships mentioned or pick one in particular to expound upon. So far, it seems neutral and cited. There is a little bit about the Dravidian kinship-term system, but only one sentence after the opening paragraph about Lewis Henry Morgan. There are citations, but righ tnow I'm not sure where the article is going so it's difficult to get a clear understanding. This is looking like my best option so far.


 * Sources
 * The textbook would be a good place to start looking for resources, as well as some of the materials from last semester. I would have to review my notes

Option 4

 * "Folk Biology"
 * Article Evaluation
 * This one is also only about a paragraph long, but it has sources and references listed already. I'm not particularly well-versed in the subject but it's something I'm interested in. The only issue is that I'm unclear about what I would write about. Because there isn't much to this article, I wouldn't want to write a super specific paragraph about a particular facet of folk biology because I feel that would be misleading for others to read later. There is a reference, but there is also a large sweeping claim about "humans everywhere..." which isn't great because there's not a way to cite that or back that up. I think maybe this article would benefit more from expansion and editing than from me adding a paragraph.


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