8/10/2018
Activity: Pair up and practice
Good article: Mark Oliphant (Featured Article of the day)
The article is well constructed and written in a clear and concise manner. It follows the manual of style of guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch,fiction and list incorporation. A list of 99 references is given and presented in accordance with the layout style guidelines. The in-line citations are from reliable sources, including published journals, government articles, encyclopedias, etc. All the research done is sourced and contains no copyright violations and plagiarism. There have been a lot of edits but no signs of an ongoing edit war. The article is supported by lots of images and the images are tagged with their respective copyright statuses.
Bad Article - Abobra
The article Abobra wouldn’t be considered a good Wikipedia article as it doesn’t cover the Wikipedia’s criteria for a good article. According to Wikipedia, a good article must be well written, verifiable, broad in its coverage, neutral, stable and illustrated. This article wouldn’t be considered well written, as it lacks a lead, section headings, lists, pictures, etc. This article also wouldn’t be considered verifiable, as it lacks reliable resources and in line citations. It only has one source, that of which wasn’t cited in the main article. This article lacks illustrations, and covers only a very minimal part of the subject.
20/08/2018
Activity 1 - The Things That Matter
In order for this article to a C-class quality label, it needs to contain more information that can allow a casual reader to learn something about the album. One way to do this would be the inclusion of the writing process of the album, the promo it had prior to its release, as well as general descriptions and back story about each song in the album itself.
Acitivty 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kadappakada&action=history
Tutorial 4/ Activity 1:
(Cloud Gate)
It is well-written and is engaging written with professionalism. The article includes most major facts, details and provides context surrounding topics which are discussed. It includes 83 references and 5 texts in the bibliography and the sources are of a high quality. Presenting a view without any bias the article also does not currently have an editing war with edits nearing the frequency of one every few months.
The lead summarises the article in a concicse manner with an appropriate structure helping readers understand the article. Consistent citations in line with media use of images and graphs provide further evidence to support its claims. The length is of an appropriate standard as it stays focused on the main topic without getting sidetracked and uses summary style.
10/09/2018
Article: "Don't Stop the Music (Rihanna Song)"
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/18573449/rihanna-closes-radio-1s-hackney-weekend-festival
The author is Greg Cochrane who is a feave year Music reporter at BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat, who has won the prestigious British Scoiety of Magazine Editors New Editor of the Year award.
it was published on the BBC
The information within the source is independently verifiable, as we were able to find the same information in many other resources
The age of the source is relative to the topic as the article was written around the time the vent took place
This article was targeted for the general public, more specifically music fans
The source doesn't omit important details or over represent others, and the information in the article are facts not options.
The article is structured as a news report article.
This source is significant towards the WIkipedia article as it confirms that Rihanna performed this in front of a giant sphinx