User:NETronnes/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.

Measure word

 * Article title
 * Measure word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_word


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is the one I did for my "evaluate an article" assignment. It's sparsely cited, has some clunky writing, it's hardly even received substantial edits in years, and it seems that it's unclear what it's even about since the term has different meanings in linguistic and pedagogical contexts. This one probably wouldn't be great since truly fixing it would likely need community consensus on what it's even about.


 * Sources

Mediopassive voice

 * Article title
 * Mediopassive voice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediopassive_voice


 * Article Evaluation
 * It is entirely devoid of citations. It's also a topic that seems interesting to me (verb valency and stuff is fascinating), and I'd like to do it. Only problem is it might be too easy, since some of the citations could just be copied from related articles. I'd be fine just not counting those towards the assignment though.


 * Sources

Interrogative word

 * Article title
 * Interrogative word https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrogative_word


 * Article Evaluation
 * As identified in the "problem box" at the top, this one skews heavily Anglo—its two main sections are "In English" and "Other languages." In all honesty it might need to be restructured to get it up to snuff. Though I'm not fluent in any languages except English.


 * Sources

Voice (grammar)

 * Article title
 * Voice (grammar) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_(grammar)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This one is just a more general case of mediopassive voice above; Voice (grammar) is similarly in need of additional citations, though it at least isn't as bad as mediopassive.


 * Sources

Grammatical person

 * Article title
 * Grammatical person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_person


 * Article Evaluation
 * This one yet again has sparse citations, but it also seems there may be some degree of understandable Anglocentrism (though it might be more correct to classify it as "Indoeurocentrism"), since it considers persons in terms of the three normal ones, with other languages having "additional" persons, rather than "person" being a language-dependent categorization with three being common but not exclusive. However, I'm Not A Linguist, so I can't say for sure whether this is truly a bias or if that's actually a viable way of approaching things—maybe there's some neuroling bs that means that three really is the natural number and languages with four or more can be rightly considered to have "extras"


 * Sources