User:Palladiumpaladin/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:Gaelic Psalm Singing
 * Article Evaluation:The article has relevant content, and it appears to be written neutrally. It is fairly well cited, but could use more in the "In popular culture" section. It doesn't represent much of an equity gap. There is nothing on the talk page. It could use some examples, and more information in the "Structure and Style" section. As a start class article, it should be filled out a bit more.
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Option 2

 * Article title:Puirt à beul
 * Article Evaluation:The articles' content is relevant, but it seems to be missing a lot of important information. It appears to be written from the perspective of people who haven't had a lot of exposure to the subject, so it's not entirely neutral. It really needs more citations. It could use some more representation of the people who created puirt a beul. The talk page is talking about fixing the article's name, combining the page with "Lilting," and people being confused by certain aspects of the practice. I personally believe that they are not addressing important aspects such as use in Cape Breton, providing examples and the songs' use as somewhat of a nursery rhyme, among others. Of most issue for me is the "Mouth music in the Americas" section, which not only talks about it as "mouth music" rather than "puirt a beul," it also has no citations and seems to be looking down on Cape Breton.
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Option 3

 * Article title:Ceilidh
 * Article Evaluation:The content of the article is relevant, and the article feels fairly neutral, but it needs citations for some of the claims it makes. The citations it does have look reliable and are diverse. There's somewhat of an equity gap regarding areas that celebrate ceilidhs, with less attention being given to Northern Irish Gaels as well as Gaels outside of the British Isles. The talk page covers the fact that new sources should be added, but one brings up the point that more images should be added, which I agree with.
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Option 4

 * Article title:Strathspey
 * Article Evaluation:The first thing I noticed about this article is that it only has one section, and that's on "Printed collections". The rest of the article only consists of the starting paragraph, which takes away from the readability of the article. The content does look relevant to the topic of strathspeys, and it is written neutrally. It could use more citations for its claims, and it could have a bit more specifically from books as opposed to websites. It doesn't have much in the way of equity gaps, but the content doesn't have much to cover on this. The talk page has requests for more pipe music information and an ask for the description of the steps used in a strathspey.
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Option 5

 * Article title:Reels
 * Article Evaluation:The article has a lot of really pertinent information about reels, and it is written very neutrally. It is sorely lacking in citations, and the citations could use a bit more variety in its authors. It appears to be written quite equitably. The talk page talks about fixing what's called a reel, fixing the time signature noted for what a reel is, and, most interestingly to me, the fact that this type of "reel" is not the most often used definition of "reel".
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