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Article Evaluation Wikipedia Article: Student Athlete

In the beggining, article seems to be largely biased towards the position that college sports benefit both student-athletes and colleges but, later on in the article, it starts taking other viewpoints and discussing other sides of the controversy. I feel that the “Title IX of the US Education Amendment of 1972” section of the article was not necessary and didnt apply enough to the topic to be a part of the article. Overall I think the article stays nuetral on my controversy. The citations looked good to me except the “Controversial Student-Athlete Rules Changed” link did not work. The “Becoming a Student-athlete” link also did not work. I think that the “Reason for higher rates” tab of the article should be a smaller section of the “Graduation rates for student athletes” tab. On the talk page of the article, there is a discussion about the article being too US-biased. I agree that the article should be changed to include more about student athletes and sports in other countries. There is also another discussion on the talk page that I agree with. On the page, people are giving suggestions on what to add to the article. One of the things they are discussing adding is more on the definition of a student athlete. I agree this should be added because it is important for understanding the argument and understanding what a student athlete actually is.