User:X5mao/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

 * Feral cat
 * I think this wiki doesn’t include a neutral and completed information about the feral cat. The author is only talking about one case that some unowned cats don’t like to be with people so they would rather live in the wild world. However, there’re some unowned cat which is stray cat which means that they’re being homeless might be abandoned by their pet owner and they dont have any ability to feed themselves. Moreover, the author holds a strong opinions on the feral cat which choose the article about how it have negative impact on the wild animals. Moreover, the topic is only limiting in the range of western country. The author didnt talk about the stray cat situation in Asia especially like Japan and China. In my opinion, I think stray cat and feral cat are two different topic based on my own research and knowledge. I think they’re both under the topic about unowned cat but they should be separated.
 * Sources:
 * https://www.alleycat.org/resources/feral-and-stray-cats-an-important-difference/
 * https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments/animal-care-services/stray-feral-cats-kittens
 * https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1211786.shtml
 * https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1211786.shtml

Option 2

 * standardized test
 * I think the most content are related to the article topic. There is something distracted me is that the information of ACT test is too detailed which make me think is about introducing what ACT test is, Most information is not out of date except some U.S. universities and colleges have given up the requirement on standardized test score for applicants. I think the most content is neutral except the author talks too much about how the standardized test is negatively having impact on education system. Most of the sources are neutral but some sources have critique on the standardized test which express a strong personal opinions toward the standardized test.
 * Sources
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/06/21/it-looks-like-beginning-end-americas-obsession-with-student-standardized-tests/
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/06/21/it-looks-like-beginning-end-americas-obsession-with-student-standardized-tests/

Option 3
Tiger parenting

I think the most content are related to the article topic. But I think the sources that chosen by author is too limited and biased which is not neutral enough. Under the title effect, it is mainly talking about the negative effect on tiger parents instead of the other reasons why this situation appears in some Asian countries instead of the western countries. It didn’t talk about the traditional Chinese family or Asian family background on how their parents have a early tough life so that they hope their children have a better life of the future and so on. I think the author needs to introduce more based on the Chinese family background and develop the idea of tiger parents and build a completed image of how it appear and how it affect.

Sources
 * https://www.npr.org/2021/09/06/1024804523/forget-tiger-moms-now-chinas-chicken-blood-parents-are-pushing-kids-to-succeed
 * https://www.apadivisions.org/division-7/publications/newsletters/developmental/2013/07/tiger-parenting

Option 4
Abstinence-only sex education

I think the content is related to this topic. And the author chose various articles from different authors. However, the opinions of these sources are to limited which are all providing criticize on this type of sex education. The author provides too much sources to prove how ineffective this type of sex education that avoid the benefits it may come with. What’s more, you can also see this article is biased based on the length of “support” and “opposition” parts. The author was wiring about an essay to show its ineffective by this type of sex education. I think it is not a good wiki page should be which is not fair enough. Moreover, there should be more latest update about current topic.

Pro abstinence-only sex education sources:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4240060/

https://www.heritage.org/education/report/evidence-the-effectiveness-abstinence-education-update

https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/abstinence-education-works-condoms-dont-new-teen-pregnancy-data/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/02/abstinenceonly_education_works.html

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X%2805%2900276-4/fulltext

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=poli_fac