User talk:Christieguzman

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Practice Introduction for Week 1 assignment
````Hello Christie. I am also in the Anthro 116s course. — Preceding unsigned comment added by A116erin (talk • contribs) 19:57, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

Article Evaluation
1. Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? → For the most part, everything in each section of the article is very relevant to the article topic of Angkor Wat. One thing that distracted me was in the history section when it highlighted the quote "One of these temples might take an honorable place beside our most beautiful buildings..." because it started mentioning Greece or Rome aspects and my mind went elsewhere in terms of the architecture. Another element that distracted me was about the multiple instances of how scholars were so perplexed by the temple being oriented to the west instead of the east. It mentioned this multiple times and never really expanded much on it so I was a bit distracted on this.

2. Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily based toward a particular position? → This article seems very neutral and does not seem to make any extreme claims of a particular position. It highlights many different perspectives to give a holistic approach.

3. Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? → From the few citations I checked the links did work and if they didn't it means that it led to a book source where one would need to purchase the book. The sources checked did support the claims being made in the article.

4. Where does the information come from? Are these natural sources? → Most of the information from the citations came from websites from museums, books on Cambodia and dictionaries. These general sources helped determine a non-biased opinion for the article formulation. These seem like neutral sources because of the fact that the articles are made to answer with specific facts about the topic rather than opinions.

5. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? → There could be more discussion on the importance of the temple being faced towards the west rather than the east that this article introduces multiple times. Maybe including what being faced to the east vs. west means in the architectural context in general would be helpful here. Most of the information seems very up to date, but maybe going back and revisiting this information in the future for refinement as time goes on.

6. How is the article rated? → This article is indicated as a featured article on Wikipedia. It is an article that is used by editors as examples for writing other articles, so this is a highly rated article.

7. How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? → The way Wikipedia discusses the topic explain the Angkor Wat in a general and very descriptive way of the actual architecture and history of the temple while in class discusses the ideas that come about from this topic. In class we watched a youtube video about Thailand's Angkor Civilization and it referred to Charles Higham, who actually wrote some of the books and citations included in the wikipedia article. In lecture this week we also had a guest lecturer Dr. David Blundell and his one-on-one experience with Cambodia and his research. So in class learning more about the direct and first-hand work with the ideas in the article vs. general historical background that gives context on the article topic of Angkor Wat.

Christieguzman (talk) 19:13, 21 February 2018 (UTC) Christie Guzman