User:Patronus19/Choose an Article

Article Selection
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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Environmental anthropology - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is objective, and all of the content seems relevant to the topic.
 * All claims have a citation attached to them.
 * The citations appear to be reliable-- there is a good mixture of reviews, academic articles, and one or two websites
 * The article talks about how environmental anthropology can affect cultural diversity
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Option 2

 * Ecological anthropology - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is objective, and all of the content seems relevant to the topic.
 * this article and "environmental anthropology" seem pretty similar...
 * All claims seem to have citations attached to them, but there are a few areas that need citations (which are marked)
 * the citations seem to be reliable-- a variety of reviews and academic articles
 * the article talks a lot about how humans and the environment have impacted each other and how both have had to adapt
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Option 3

 * Environmental technology - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is objective, and the content seems to be relevant. However, I feel there is a lot more information out there than what is presented on this wiki page.
 * The article starts with citations backing claims, but the further down the page you go the less there are
 * there are also a lot of links to separate Wikipedia articles
 * The citations do not appear to be that reliable. While there is a variety of sources, most of them appear to be news articles and headlines
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Option 4

 * Natural resource management - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * the article is objective, and all of the content seems to be relevant
 * the outline of some of the sections is a little confusing to me
 * citations cluster, but not every claim is backed by a citation (there are areas with big paragraphs and no citations)
 * the citations appear to be reliable-- a mixture of academic papers
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Option 5

 * Road ecology - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * the article seems objective and all of the content seems to be relevant
 * there are a lot of lists in the first part of the article, and it made it pretty hard for me to read and understand.
 * looks at positives and negatives (which is nice because I feel that I only see negatives about urbanization's effect on the environment)
 * each claim appears to be backed by a citation, but there are a few that need to be added or updated.
 * the mitigation efforts feels a little out of place
 * the citations appear to be reliable-- a mixture of academic papers
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