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Evaluating Articles:

Evaluating article: School Meals

•	Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? I didn't realize the article would talk about other countries. Lunches for students, and the entire school structure for that matter, can be very different in different countries. Also, I had not thought about the issue of obesity being what helped to bring about school meals, I assumed it was a financial decision, with kids not being able to afford to eat healthy. The article seems neutral and presents all sides, and the pros and cons of school meals along with the history in all the different countries looked at in this article. The information is relevant, there is just a lot of information here from a lot of different countries. Since my article is on school lunches and the structure in the United States, I focused on the U.S. Portion of this article, though the rest was really interesting information.

•	Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? IT seems especially with the United States, that the empathy for the hungry is there. The US initiated the school lunch program to feed the poor school children, and the period of 1935-1942 seems to be more sympathetic in the writing. Though the criticisms are listed of conflicts of interest, the criticisms of the program are minimal compared to the rest of the content. The article overall seems fairly neutral giving mostly facts and details.

•	Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? There is a lot of history for each country listed. An overview of most countries is given, with much more detail given for countries such as the US and Japan. It seems that those countries that are larger and have more complex structures in place have more content in this article than other smaller countries. Also most likely because many smaller countries may not have full school meal programs like the US and Japan.

•	Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? I noticed at the beginning one "citation needed" was listed, and when you click on it, it takes you to a page to tell you about what that means. The rest of the highlighted words worked to take me to pages about that person or concept. The citation numbers take me to the bibliography at the end, then clicking on the title of those articles takes me to the actual article.

•	 Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? Just like I found when I looked for articles on school lunch structures, some of the articles are research based and from professional journals, others are from news media outlets, such as The Guardian and Huffington Post. Since so many countries are discussed in the article, a lot of citations are for other countries. Most seem to be reliable references, and some are for specific countries discussed in the content of the article.

•	Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? There are a total of 70 citations and a majority of them must be from about the time the article was written or updated, around 2016.

•	 Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? one of the sources as merged with another citation. Two schools used this for projects, including Rice university. Some comments are posted when you scroll down about how the article was used and different discussion points on the article.

•	How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? it has a C rating for quality, not rated yet on B class, and is rated as high importance

•	How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? It breaks the topic down into frames for countries, and each country's means of organizing things is unique, so though they tray to maintain a consistent structure for each country, it's a bit different based on available information.