User:Ruiyishen2000/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
 * Virtual reality


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed as level-5 and rated C-class. This article's content is very relevant to the topic, introducing the history, general concept, and applications of virtual reality. It is written in a neutral tone. Almost every sentence in this article has a citation listed at the end. Most of these citations are from journal articles are research papers. On the talk page, there are several entries. Two of them are about some unclear expression in the article, and the other two are about some potential new sources that can be added to the article. I think this article should provide some more technical description of how virtual reality works. Some visuals can also be adjusted.


 * Sources
 * https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2018.00062

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Universe


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed as level-2 and rated GA-class. This article's content is very relevant to topic, introducing the definition, properties and composition of the universe. It is written in a neutral tone. However, a lot of sentences, especially in the historic conception part of this article does not have any sources cited. Most of the citations are made in the part that explains the properties of the universe, and the sources are reliable. In the talk page, people were talking about some adjustments to the lead and the visuals of the article. I think that the last section of historic conception should be introduced earlier, and also the introduction is too long in this article. A timeline of the development of universe can also be included.


 * Sources
 * https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/timeline-2006121889912.html#:~:text=Our%20universe%20began%20in%20a,(left%20side%20of%20strip).&text=A%20period%20of%20darkness%20ensued,flooded%20the%20universe%20with%20light.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Space exploration


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed as level-3 and rated C-class.The article's content is very relevant to the topic, introducing the history, target, and future goals of human exploring the universe. It is written in a neutral tone. In the section "Target of Exploration", I can hardly find any sentence that has any sources cited. Although some of these sentences are adapted from other Wikipedia article, I believe the sources should still be included. In the talk page, people are discussing adding contents to the article especially related to the history. From my perspective, this article should introduce the history of space exploration in a chronological order instead of the subtopics of the "first man" who completed certain tasks.


 * Sources
 * https://www.space.com/38700-nasa-history.html

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Space research


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is Starter-class.This article's content is not so relevant to the topic, introducing the history and different fields of space exploration, but not research. It is written in a neutral tone. There is a very limited number of sources cited in all sections of this article, which I think decreases the credibility of this article. The citations listed at the end of the article is very clear, but some of them don't seem to come from any authority. There isn't much going on on the talk page. There were just two users listing the changes of errors that should be made in the article. I think some content in this article is repetitive. Some more information about research done such as theories should be included instead of the observation during exploration.


 * Sources
 * https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/history/timeline.html

Option 5

 * Article title
 * NASA


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is listed as level-4 and rated C-class. This article's content is very relevant to the topic, introducing the history, facilities and research of NASA. It is written in a neutral tone. In this article, almost every sentence has a source cited. From the list of reference at the last page, we can see that a lot of the sources come directly from NASA website, which is very reliable. On the talk page, there are some topics about the space programs of United States that are currently under discussion and a consensus has not been reached yet. Other discussions are about the structure of the article being messy. I think some more information under the "Research" section should be provided. When people think of NASA, they should not just think of space exploration, but also other contribution that NASA has made.


 * Sources
 * https://www.nasa.gov/science-and-technology-research