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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

 * Michelin:
 * Article Evaluation
 * Leading Section: Concise; mentions the founding of the company & biggest contributions
 * Content: good details on the company's contributions; lacking on the historical aspects of cultivation
 * Tone & Balance: not persuasive; balanced; not enough emphasis on scandals (i.e. Vietnam plantations)
 * Sources: the sources are well-used, but lacks sources from historians
 * Organization: well-organizes; separated into sections
 * Images: good, descriptive images with captions; video demonstration
 * Talk Page: article is written in British English (i.e. "tyre" instead of "tire")
 * Overall Impressions: This article is well-organized and has plenty of references. Sentences are concise, but lack in further detail about the cultivation of resources. The history section feels bullet-point-like; surface-level information.
 * Sources
 * Aso, Michitake. Rubber and The Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897–1975. UNC Press Books, 2018.
 * Bình, Trần Tử. The Red Earth: A Vietnamese Memoir of Life on a Colonial Rubber Plantation. Edited by David G. Marr. Translated by John Spragens, Jr. Ohio University Press, 1985.
 * Dung, Tran Ngoc. "Rubber industry in Southern Vietnam (1954-1975): An economic dimension." The VMOST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 65, no. 2 (2023): 93-106.
 * Dung, Tran Ngoc. "Rubber industry in Southern Vietnam (1954-1975): An economic dimension." The VMOST Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 65, no. 2 (2023): 93-106.

Option 2

 * Damsel in distress
 * Article Evaluation
 * Leading Section: Concise; good definition
 * Content: provides good details about the origins of the term; chronological progression; provides different examples from multiple media outlets
 * Tone & Balance: Though the article is about a stereotype towards women, it does a good job at solely providing examples and no opinionated statements
 * Sources: reliable; could use more historical sources to back up statements on Greek mythology
 * Organization: examples are separated well by time period, perspectives, and media outlets
 * Images: The images provided are well-captioned and from different periods, but there are none from present era
 * Talk Page: Has not been active since the early 2000s
 * Overall Impressions: Though there was a lot of information about the trope in film, I was interested in adding more to the video game section. Also, I wanted to add more into the Greek mythology section.
 * Sources
 * Hansen, Jared Capener. "Why Can't Zelda Save Herself? How the Damsel in Distress Trope Affects Video Game Players" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 
 * Malkowski, Jennifer, and Treaandrea M. Russworm, eds. Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games. Indiana University Press, 2017.
 * Solis, Michael A. "The damsel in distress: rescuing women from American mythology." Rutgers University-Camden Graduate School, 2017.
 * Malkowski, Jennifer, and Treaandrea M. Russworm, eds. Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games. Indiana University Press, 2017.
 * Solis, Michael A. "The damsel in distress: rescuing women from American mythology." Rutgers University-Camden Graduate School, 2017.

Option 3

 * Native Americans in popular culture:
 * Article Evaluation
 * Leading Section: Though the leading section doesn't cite any sources, it does a good job at explaining the stereotypes within the media
 * Content: sufficient examples of popular culture, but lacking detail in the film section
 * Tone & Balance: tone remains neutral while providing the perceptions of Native Americans in media and the reasons behind it
 * Sources: Sources cited are more than 10 years old; few sentences need a citation; mostly books (though some are cited incorrectly)
 * Organization: spaced out evenly; not cluttered
 * Images: 3 images total with map included; could use a screen-grab of a film depicting stereotypes
 * Talk Page: has not been active for few years, but is a part of 'indigenous peoples' WikiProjects
 * Overall Impressions: This article covers a lot of basis in terms of media outlets, but I was surprised that football was not mentioned (Washington Redskins)
 * Sources
 * Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America. University of California Press, 2004.
 * Mihelich, John. "Smoke or signals? American popular culture and the challenge to hegemonic images of American Indians in Native American film." Wicazo Sa Review 16, no. 2 (2001): 129-137.
 * King, C. Richard. "Alter/native Heroes: Native Americans, Comic Books, and the Struggle for Self-Definition." Cultural Studies? Critical Methodologies 9, no. 2 (2009): 214-223.
 * King, C. Richard. "Alter/native Heroes: Native Americans, Comic Books, and the Struggle for Self-Definition." Cultural Studies? Critical Methodologies 9, no. 2 (2009): 214-223.

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