User:Jpaul082/Choose an Article

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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: Adjuvant Therapy
Article Evaluation
  • Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
    • The article's content is relevant to the topic and discusses the history/origin of this therapy, how this therapy is used in cancer treatments, and controversy that surrounds this therapy.
  • Is it written neutrally?
    • This article appears to be written in a neutral tone and does not try to sway the audience in any particular direction.
  • Does each claim have a citation?
    • Citations/references are used throughout the article to back up the claim made by the author.
  • Are the citations reliable?
    • The citations appear to be reliable, coming from reputable sources and being published not too long ago. The links work as well.
  • 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.
    • In the Talk section, a name change was suggested as well as expanding upon/ updating certain sections of the article
Sources
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/in-depth/adjuvant-therapy/art-20046687
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071360/

Option 2

Article title: Axillary dissection
Article Evaluation
  • Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
    • The article's content is relevant to the topic, however it is lacking a lot of information pertaining to the topic.
  • Is it written neutrally?
    • This article is neutral, it only states one fact about the topic. There is no persuasive wording used.
  • Does each claim have a citation?
    • A citation is used for the one sentence that makes up this article.
  • Are the citations reliable?
    • This citation does appear to be reliable, however this topic requires more content and therefore more citations.
  • 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.
    • No Wikipedians have made any contributions/suggestions in the Talk page.
Sources
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1894763-overview
https://www.breastcancer.org/treatment/surgery/lymph_node_removal/axillary_dissection

Option 3

Article title: Tumors of the hematopoietic and lymphoid tissues
Article Evaluation
  • Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
    • The article's content is relevant to the topic and discusses the diagnosis, classification, and treatment of these tumors.
  • Is it written neutrally?
    • This article is neutral and only presents facts relating to this topic.
  • Does each claim have a citation?
    • Citations are used to back up the claims made in this article.
  • Are the citations reliable?
    • These citations do appear to be reliable sources and are published in recent years. The links do work.
  • 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.
    • The Wikipedians on this Talk page have made comments on how this tumor/cancer should be classified.
Sources
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123852458000200
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK9562/

Option 4

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Article Evaluation
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Option 5

Article title
Article Evaluation
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