First assignment - evaluate Wikipedia

• "Climate Change" Article assessment
  • Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? There are 99 sources used for this article and from what I can tell, each fact has an appropriate reference cited with it.
  • Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Yes. No.
  • Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? It doesn't seem biased, overall, it includes all the evidence from each source that lead us to believe climate change. The language used reads as neutral.
  • Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? The information, for the most part, comes from scholarly journal articles that have been reviewed. The papers from the UNFCCC are from peer reviewed sources as well, which can be replicated.
  • Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? Some might think that the opposition to climate change may be underrepresented, but, for me, it feels good.
  • Check a few citations. Do the links work? Is there any close paraphrasing or plagiarism in the article? The links worked and no evidence of close paraphrasing that I could see.
  • Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? Not sure if out of date, but most of the cited material is from 2010 to current.
  • Climate Change is a  semi-protected article on Wikipedia. Why do you think this is? Is it a good or a bad thing?Because of the controversy in the public of climate change and to ensure that trusted Wikipedia users logged can be monitored by others to ensure the most accurate information is available.
  • Check the "talk" page of the articles - what is the Wikipedia community discussing when it comes to representing these issues? How is the article ranked on Wikipedia's quality scale? That the article links may go to different pages, the article is on topic and well written. Was previously a good article, listed as a level 4 vital article. 

• "Ecology" article assessment
  • If you picked the article about Ecology to evaluate - did you see mention of climate change? Why or why not? If you were going to create a new article about climate change and it's relationship to Ecology, what information would you add? There were 2 mentions of climate change in the text of the article. Since the article is ecology, it seems natural to include discussion on biodiversity and that climate change will have an effect on it. The new article would be focused on how species diversity will be affected by climate change. The rest of the article followed the same structure as the climate change article.
• "Effects of climate change on plant biodiversity" article assessment
  • I think the article was good like the others I read, but the first topic header I think should be altered to something a little more colloquial than Palaeo context. The public might not know what it means. Other than that the article seemed source-fed and unbiased. Overall, I learned some new things and saw some things that Jeannine talked about in class.

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^{[ citation needed]} Paragraph: This helps you set the style of the text. For example, a header, or plain paragraph text. You can also use it to offset block quotes.

A : Highlight your text, then click here to format it with bold, italics, etc. The "More" options allows you to underline, add code snippets, and change language keyboards.

Links: The chain button allows you to link your text. Highlight the word, and push the button. VisualEditor will automatically suggest related Wikipedia articles for that word or phrase. This is a great way to connect your article to more Wikipedia content. You only have to link important words once, usually during the first time they appear. If you want to link to pages outside of Wikipedia (for an "external links" section, for example) click on the "External link" tab. ^[1] Cite: The citation tool in VisualEditor ^[2] helps format your citations. You can simply paste a DOI or URL, and the VisualEditor will try to sort out all of the fields you need. Be sure to review it, however, and apply missing fields manually (if you know them). You can also add books, journals, news, and websites manually. That opens up a quick guide for inputting your citations. Finally, you can click the "re-use" tab if you've already added a source and just want to cite it again.

• Bullets: To add bullet points or a numbered list, click here.

Insert: This tab lets you add media, images, or tables.

Ω The final tab allows you to add special characters, such as those found in non-English words, scientific notation, and a handful of language extensions.§

NotMatthewRapcan ( talk) 17:49, 26 April 2017 (UTC) How to add a citation with WikiCode

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Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).