User:Natsturg/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

 * Article title
 * College Recruiting


 * Article Evaluation
 * While they do include information that someone may not be able to find on another wiki page, the main concern that I have with this article is that it includes sections related specifically to college basketball and football, but there are no other sports that are talked about at quite that length. When the article is titled College Recruiting, you are insinuating to the public that the article will refer to all college recruiting, not just specific sports. I would recommend that the author either takes out the football and basketball sections and makes those a subcategory, or they add in all college sports that follow recruiting rules.


 * Sources
 * College soccer
 * Next College Student Athlete
 * Walk-on (sports)

Option 2

 * Article title
 * National Collegiate Athletic Association


 * Article Evaluation
 * There is a lot of information on this article, however there is a noticeable lack of negative information about the association. There is no mention of any past rules, scandals, or stances that the association has taken that can be perceived as bad. If the article added that information to come across as more transparent, then I think the article would be better off.


 * Sources
 * Penn State child sex abuse scandal
 * List of sporting scandals
 * University of Southern California athletics scandal

Option 3

 * Article title
 * List of College Rivalries in the US


 * Article Evaluation
 * The most noticeable absence in this article is that they don't define what they are considering to be a rivalry. There are many schools that have rivalries and many schools who are simply tough match ups, but have no history of being considered rivals that are on this list. If the page classified what they are considering to be a rival, then they would have more room to be making these blanket statements of two schools being rivals.


 * Sources
 * List of NCAA college football rivalry games

College rivalry

Clemson–South Carolina rivalry