User:Rociobp7/Choose an Article

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

Option 1

 * Article title: Water pollution
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Article is unbiased
 * - All the subtopics are relevant to the topic
 * - Most sources are up to date (from past 10 years)
 * - Images are relevant and aid in the understanding of the topic
 * - Images are relevant and aid in the understanding of the topic


 * Sources
 * - https://books.google.com/books?id=4R9CYYoiFCcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=water+pollution&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia7-6juMPoAhUqZN8KHZk3C4oQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

Option 2

 * Article title: Marine debris
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Information is up to date, there are plenty of sources from 2019
 * - Images such as info-graphics are properly cited
 * - Unbiased content, facts are shown about human impact without demonstrating that humans are "bad" for causing this
 * - Claims have clear citations
 * - Claims have clear citations


 * Sources
 * - https://books.google.com/books?id=RRIGCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=marine+debris&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA8-y7uMPoAhXMct8KHQ_SD8EQ6AEwAnoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=marine%20debris&f=false
 * - https://books.google.com/books?id=RRIGCAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=marine+debris&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA8-y7uMPoAhXMct8KHQ_SD8EQ6AEwAnoECAQQAg#v=onepage&q=marine%20debris&f=false

Option 3

 * Article title: Great Pacific garbage patch
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Up to date sources
 * - All subtopics are relevant
 * - To me, one of the photos doesn't match with the section of text
 * - To me, one of the photos doesn't match with the section of text


 * Sources
 * - https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

Option 4 (chosen article)

 * Article title: Ocean Conservancy
 * Article Evaluation
 * - Information looks biased with an accomplishments/criticisms format, the accomplishments are much larger than the criticisms
 * - Some sources are not able to be found
 * - Page itself states there are many issues with this article and talk page shows concerns over the information
 * - Page itself states there are many issues with this article and talk page shows concerns over the information


 * Sources
 * - https://oceanconservancy.org/trash-free-seas/
 * - https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2016/07/28/restoring-endangered-coral-reefs-2/ - added this citation

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