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

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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  Article title  Xenophobia in South Africa  Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the content of the article is relevant to the topic.
 * Is it written neutrally? Yes, the article is written neutrally. Throughout the article, information is being presented and cited.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes, the author of the article does a good job of providing citations after most claims that they make. As information is being presented to the reader there are citations being added.
 * Are the citations reliable? This article provided a significant number of citations. There were 111 citations used in the article. Upon clicking some of the links to view the sources I found that some links directed me to some decent sources while some links directed me to sources that were not reliable. One link directed me to a website that was irrelevant to the topic. Most of the sources used in this article came from news articles and included a large portion of sources from Africa.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations of subjects)? Yes, the article does cover one of Wikipedia's equity gaps. I was surprised that there was not much discussion regarding xenophobia in the country since it is a prevalent issue that needs to be discussed and addressed.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too. On the talk page, people were suggesting changing the title and revising some links to provide information that was more up-to-date and accurate. My recommendation is to focus on the grammar of the article. Some paragraphs can be phrased differently to get the point across more clearly.  Sources    Kersting, Norbert. “New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa – a New Inclination?” Africa Spectrum 44, no. 1 (April 2009): 7–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/000203970904400102 .  Oni, Ebenezer O., and Samuel K. Okunade. "The context of xenophobia in Africa: Nigeria and South Africa in comparison." In The political economy of xenophobia in Africa, pp. 37-51. Springer, Cham, 2018.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Forced_marriage  Article Evaluation Option 3 Article title
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the article's content is relevant to the topic of this article. The first sentence clearly defined what the article would be about.
 * Is it written neutrally? For the most part, the article is written in a neutral tone. There are sections of the article in which the author uses generalizations to present the information. For instance, the article states, “though now widely condemned…” and proceeds to make the point. If statements like that were excluded the article would sound more neutral.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes, most claims do have a citation with a total of 176 sources used in the article overall.
 * Are the citations reliable? Yes, after following the links to a variety of sources many of the links came from European sources, academic articles, and sources from different countries. While I did not click all 176 sources, I browsed them randomly and many of the citations I would consider reliable.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations of subjects)? Yes, this article tackles a content gap. It discusses the prevalence of forced marriage even in countries that have “outlawed” it. There were sections that needed more information to help the article be stronger.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too. On the talk page, there are many suggestions that I agreed with. One of the suggestions was to expand on some of the main topics the article was trying to cover. I do think that the lack of information may be due to the author trying to convey as much information as possible about the topic. Since there is a multitude of subtopics the article needs some work there. Some subtopics are very short and need more information. The author of the article is continuously modifying the links for the sources, and I think that is great because that is keeping the article up to date.  Sources     Koski, Alissa, Shelley Clark, and Arijit Nandi. “Has Child Marriage Declined in Sub-Saharan Africa? An Analysis of Trends in 31 Countries.” Population and development review 43, no. 1 (2017): 7–29.  Maswikwa, Belinda, Linda Richter, Jay Kaufman, and Arijit Nandi. “Minimum Marriage Age Laws and the Prevalence Of Child Marriage and Adolescent Birth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa.” International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health 41, no. 2 (2015): 58–68. https://doi.org/10.1363/4105815 .  Roux, Elisabet le. “RECOGNISING AND RESPONDING TO COMPLEX DILEMMAS: CHILD MARRIAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA.” In Childhood Vulnerabilities in South Africa: Some Ethical Perspectives, edited by Jan Grobbelaar and Chris Jones, 1st ed., 163–80. African Sun Media, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1nzfx07.13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_South_Sudan   Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes, the content of the article is relevant to the topic.
 * Is it written neutrally? No, the article is not written in a neutral manner. There are various points made in the article that reflect more of a personal opinion than an explanation of what is occurring in South Sudan.
 * Does each claim have a citation? Yes, most claims made in the article provide a citation.
 * Are the citations reliable? Some of the citations come from reliable sources while some links do not direct you to the pdf cited in the article, rather a website without the pdf. There are not many sources used to write this article either.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations of subjects)? Yes, this article does tackle one of South Africa's equity gaps. Upon doing some research about the topic myself I realized that although child marriage in South Sudan is prevalent there is not much research done on the topic.
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too. On the talk page, there is currently no discussion. However, I think this article needs much more research. There needs to be more statistics and information. I am surprised by how little information there is on the topic of child marriage in South Sudan merely because it is more common than one would think. With the addition of more credible sources and some changes in the article’s language, this article has potential.  Sources  https://www.unicef.org/southsudan/press-releases/some-things-are-not-fit-for-children   Ali, A., I. Ibrahim, S. Abdelgbar, and M. Elgessim. "Socio-demographic factors affecting child marriage in Sudan." J Women's Health Care 3, no. 163 (2014): 2167-0420.   https://www.hrw.org/reports/southsudan_brochure_FINAL_websingles.pdf   https://sudantribune.com/article44940/  Adhiambo Onyango, Monica. “The Nexus Between Bridewealth, Family Curse, and Spontaneous Abortion Among Southern Sudanese Women.” Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing / 43, no. 4 (2011).