User:Paulirue/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: German Language
 * Article Evaluation: There seems to be a couple of issues with this article, the main one being mistranslation. There are some words that may have possibly been translated from English, which is why their actual German meaning is not accurate for what is communicated. There is also some discussion on the Talk page regarding where "Umlaut" is historic or not, so it would be preferable to find an answer.
 * Sources:
 * Twaddell, William Freeman. "A note on Old High German umlaut." Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (1938): 177-181.
 * Penzl, Herbert. "The Old High German i-Umlaut and the models of historical sound-change." Monatshefte (1983): 131-136.
 * Twaddell, William Freeman. "A note on Old High German umlaut." Monatshefte für deutschen Unterricht (1938): 177-181.
 * Penzl, Herbert. "The Old High German i-Umlaut and the models of historical sound-change." Monatshefte (1983): 131-136.

Option 2

 * Article title: Korean Language
 * Article Evaluation: This article has a lot of issues to be addressed, one of which is being more inclusive. There is some issues with power symmetry but there is no actual proof, so the statement ends up being somewhat controversial. There are also some references made in the article that can't be found in the sources, so maybe the editor made a connection which should be corrected if possible. The Korean alphabet provided is also incomplete and given as every alphabet is equally important, it should be revised so that the missing consonants and/or vocals can be added in. This could be insulting to native speakers and misleading to Korean language learners.
 * Sources:
 * Gale, James S. "The Korean Alphabet." Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 4.Part 1 (1912).
 * Sources:
 * Gale, James S. "The Korean Alphabet." Transactions of the Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 4.Part 1 (1912).

Option 3

 * Article title: Spanglish
 * Article Evaluation: As a Spanish and English speaker, I analyzed the vocabulary provided for Spanish in the document, but many of the words provided are wrongly-defined. For example "carpeta" means "binder" not "carpet"; "Wacha" means "look at this, or look at them", not "be careful". It is something that can be easily fixed, but it would be better to find a source instead of going off personal experience which is something we should write about on Wikipedia. On the section of 'Loan words' there is a similar issue with mistranslation, which should also be easy to correct.
 * Sources:
 * Ardila, Alfredo. "Spanglish: an anglicized Spanish dialect." Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 27.1 (2005): 60-81.
 * Sources:
 * Ardila, Alfredo. "Spanglish: an anglicized Spanish dialect." Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 27.1 (2005): 60-81.

Option 4

 * Article title: Multilingualism
 * Article Evaluation: This article has some strong foundations but lacks citations. Throughout the article it is very prominent that the authors wrote without citing or giving credit so it lacks credibility. Some statistics are also very old and should be updated to more recent numbers. It is also not very inclusive, since the examples and pictures provided tend to be from the same languages; a couple more could be added to make this article inclusive and well-rounded.
 * Sources:
 * Semina, V. V. "Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Overview, Statistics and their Benefits."
 * Lozano, Rosina. "Multilingualism in the United States: The long history of official translations." Language, Nations, and Multilingualism. Routledge, 2020. 71-86.
 * Semina, V. V. "Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Overview, Statistics and their Benefits."
 * Lozano, Rosina. "Multilingualism in the United States: The long history of official translations." Language, Nations, and Multilingualism. Routledge, 2020. 71-86.

Option 5

 * Article title: Animal Language
 * Article Evaluation: The article lacks in-text citations; at the bottom of the article there are many cited sources but some aren't mentioned on the actual article. There is also a lot of information on certain animals, and very little on others. I possible it would be informative to write more than one sentence about the animals mentioned. If not enough information is available, maybe it'd be better to edit some stuff out. There are also some parts which are not written in an 'encyclopedic tone'. Rewriting these sections would make the article more appropriate for readers.
 * Sources:
 * Forrest, T. G. "Acoustic communication and baffling behaviors of crickets." The Florida Entomologist 65.1 (1982): 33-44.
 * Esch, Harald. "The evolution of bee language." Scientific American 216.4 (1967): 96-105.
 * Forrest, T. G. "Acoustic communication and baffling behaviors of crickets." The Florida Entomologist 65.1 (1982): 33-44.
 * Esch, Harald. "The evolution of bee language." Scientific American 216.4 (1967): 96-105.