User:Rjaipaul/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: Media in New York City - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Extensive Talk Page
 * - Contains a lot of hyperlinks to other Wikipedia Articles
 * - Needs to be modernized/ updated
 * - Contains grammatical and spelling errors
 * - Does not have fair use to certain images
 * Sources
 * -CNN
 * -The New York Times
 * - The Evening Post: Century of Journalism
 * - The Evening Post: Century of Journalism

Option 2

 * Article title Lying press - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * - there is disagreement about the German derivative for the word "lying press"
 * - translation issues
 * - disagreement about how the word was used after WWII
 * - disagreement about not referring to Pegida (organization that re-popularized the word) as an 'Islamaphobic far right organization'
 * -a seemingly faulty reference where the cited newspaper page numbers are much greater than what a newspaper would have printed at the time
 * -a seemingly faulty reference where the cited newspaper page numbers are much greater than what a newspaper would have printed at the time


 * Sources
 * -CNN
 * -Politico
 * -The Telegraph

Option 3

 * Article title CIA influence on public opinion - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Contains Original Research
 * - Requires cleanup to meet Standards
 * - Article lacks an effective lead
 * Sources
 * - NY Times Sunday Book Review
 * - Harvard University Press
 * - Saturday Evening Post
 * - Harvard University Press
 * - Saturday Evening Post

Option 4

 * Article title Sexuality in music videos - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * -Needs additional citations for verification
 * - written in a non-neutral tone
 * - presents an American view of the subject, not a worldwide view
 * - has an active talk page
 * - a lot of disagreements on the talk page
 * - unreliable resources- magazines, gossip blogs, and entertainment websites
 * Sources
 * Entertainment Tonight
 * Rolling Stone
 * Michigan Sociological Review
 * Entertainment Tonight
 * Rolling Stone
 * Michigan Sociological Review

Option 5

 * Article title Balloon boy hoax - Wikipedia
 * Article Evaluation
 * -lots of disagreements in the talk pages
 * - improvement of the article is needed as said in the talk pages
 * - doesn't have reliable sources
 * -Written in American English- Grammar mistakes
 * -still not in good article criteria
 * Sources
 * - CNN
 * - The Globe and Mall
 * - Los Angeles Times
 * - FOXNews.com
 * - Los Angeles Times
 * - FOXNews.com