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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.

Article title: Sustainability in Dubai (Sustainability in Dubai); relates to Goal #11
Article Evaluation: a lot of "citations needed," not very thorough descriptions in each section of the article, rated highly important, C-Class quality, no pictures, definitely room for elaboration and improvement. The article does seem to tackle one of Wikipedia's "equity gaps" as it is written as "an effort to improve the coverage of the United Arab Emirates on Wikipedia."

Sources
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/urban-expeditions/green-buildings/dubai-ecological-footprint-sustainable-urban-city/
https://www.businessinsider.com/dubai-sustainable-city-uae-2018-1
https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/green-incubators-uae-rethinks-sustainability-sustainable-cities

Article title: Action Against Hunger (Action Against Hunger); relates to Goal #2
Article Evaluation: The article's content is relevant to the topic but involves a specific organization rather than the concept of "action against hunger", the article is not written neutrally (bias/advertising for organization present), each claim does not have a citation, the talk page includes a lot of people exposing advertisers from the nonprofit organization that the article discusses, the article does not go into detail about current efforts of the organization and is more focused on the history/demographics of the organization

Sources
https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/npo-spotlight/action-against-hunger
https://www.poverty-action.org/organization/action-against-hunger

Article title: Water purification in Africa (Water purification in Africa); relates to Goal #6
Article Evaluation: This article is too concise because it does not explore details about water purification efforts in Africa, the history of poor water conditions, etc. The article does not have a rating and there are several spelling errors discussed in the "talk section." There is a lot that can be said about water purification efforts in Africa so this article could definitely be expanded with current efforts and successes that have lead to better water in Africa. The article could have elaborated on the history of poor water conditions in Africa.
Sources:
https://www.justoneafrica.org/clean-water/
https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/15/safe-cheap-and-sustainable-clean-water-technology-for-africa
https://www.dw.com/en/groundbreaking-water-purification-device/av-18988121

Article title: Poverty in Colombia (Poverty in Colombia); relates to Goal #1
Article Evaluation: this article is disappointingly concise and could definitely use some more information, the comments in "talk" have to do with errors, such as: missing citations, unoriginal research, claims without support, opinions, and non-supported data, the article is "Start Class" and does address a Wikipedia equity gap to discuss issues in Colombia that are underrepresented on Wikipedia. The article touches on the effects of poverty in Colombia but could expand on these effects and discuss the impact it has on its people in the long run. As someone who knows about the relation of poverty in Colombia to the rates of abandoned children there, I noticed that it was not really talked about.
Sources:
https://www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk/country/colombia/
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-poverty-inequality-statistics/
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2016/01/14/colombia-winning-the-war-on-poverty-and-inequality-despite-the-odds

Option 5

Article title: For Profit Education (For-profit education); relates to Goal #4

Article Evaluation: This article is a "Start Class" article, and the talk section is plagued by debates about for-profit education, the page seems biased with opinions and views about whether or not for profit education is good, the article needs more information about for profit education around the world, not just in America, the UK, and Australia, I saw the idea of adding a list of for profit institutions and I thought that could be a good addition
Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/business/coronavirus-for-profit-colleges.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2018/12/09/20000-more-reasons-to-never-go-to-a-for-profit-school/?sh=4dd30c3e30e5
the sources are ridded with opinions, so even though they provide some facts, it is hard to get raw information without bias. That's why this topic is not the best.