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Wikipedia Evaluation

ARTICLES

Credibility
-comprises the objective and subjective components of the believability of the source.

-Two key components: trustworthiness and expertise

-Trustworthiness: based more on subjective factors, but can include objective measurements like reliability.

-Expertise: comes from the source of the article (credentials or certification).

-credibility online had become an important topic in the mid-90s as the internet became a new resource of information.

-Journalistic Credibility: professional integrity

-Scientific Credibility: science in gen. are viewed as a reliable source of info about the world. Questioned by non-mainstream views, like alternative-medicine.

-Street Credibility: someone's word can be believed by the person on the street.

-Two-Phase Model of Credibility: Derived from Jurgen Haberma's theory of communicative action (which developed: truth, sincerity, appropriateness, and understandability). In a study, researchers came up with the Two-Phase Model of Credibility where, first, understandability needs to be reached before the other three can make a difference.

Advocacy

-defined as an activity when a person or group aims to influence other's beliefs and decisions within political, economic, and social systems.

-can include media campaigns, public speaking, commissioning, etc.

-Advocate: person provides advocacy support to someone who needs it.

-advocacy seeks to let certain people's voice on issues heard along with their views being considered.

-people advocate for various types of topics, but most talks about social issues.

Privilege (social inequality)

-A social theory where special rights are only available to a specific group of people.

-age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class

-concept of privilege dated back to 1903 by American sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois

ESSAY

For Wikipedia, the doctor is in... class.

-Many people rely on the internet for help regarding their medical problems. People go to Google for medical advice or a new diagnosis on a certain pain. Most of the articles that pop up for help are Wikipedia pages.

-Wikipedia has become the top single source of healthcare info for patients and even healthcare professionals in 2014.

-In Dr. Azzam's class in UCSF Med. School, he assigns his students to collaborate and look through a health-related Wikipedia page and fact-checking an article's content, along with adding sections that are missing.

Wiki's Policies or Guidelines

Neutral Point of View

-defines as representing fairly without editorial bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic.

-avoid stating opinions as if they're facts and vice versa

-prefer nonjudgemental language

-provide different views

Article Evaluation

Article: "Balkans (band)"
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkans_(band)

This article briefly discusses a biography of the indie pop and punk rock band from Atlanta, Georgia called "Balkans". The length of the article is fairly short and does not provide a lot of information about their band and music, but in the author's defense, the band is pretty underground and not very active together to this day. The information in the article is not bad, it just lacks providing more information that fans wouldn't have already known about the band's music and group.

The facts stated seem to be backed up with sources like indie blog spots and music billboards, which would count as somewhat reliable in this case, but then again it's difficult to tell when the source didn't come from an "official" or "edu" site. What I found unreliable about the sources were that some were out of date and the links no longer contained the information the author referenced off of.

Everything in the article seemed to be relevant to the topic; every piece of information stated was correlated to something about the band. The author did a good job in making sure they were adding as much information about the band as they could.
The information in this article were all relatively positive about the band. The author included positive opinions on their music cited from blogspots, which can be seen as a biased thing to do because there aren't any opposing beliefs stated in the article. In my opinion, the sources aren't very neutral because most of these information are coming from people who like Balkan's music and are fans of them.

The author of this article definitely overrepresented the positive opinions on this band and underrepresented any opposing opinions. The article would have been a lot better if they had added different opinions on the band's music and maybe adding reasons as to why the band decided to break up and be less active in 2017.

Most of the cited sources do work, but a few aren't updated (either an error popped up or a page was deleted) and with that, this can be seen as an unreliable article.

The talk page wasn't very popular with critiques and there was only one comment stating that another author decided to add on a few more links to why the band is important in the music industry. I couldn't find a rating for this article and it's probably because it isn't a very popular or mainstream topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbautista331 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 25 April 2017 (UTC)

Cactus Article Edit

Fishhook cactus is a common name for any hook-spined species of the genera Mammillaria, Echinomastus or Sclerocactus. They are small cacti, usually growing up to 6-7 inches (20 cm) high, and are shaped similar to a barrel cactus. They are not to be confused with the fishhook barrel cactus (Ferocactus wislizenii) of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts. The Fishhook cactus is a large category of around 150 species.[1]

Good places to see "fishhook" Mammillaria are the Sonoran Desert on the U.S. - Mexico border, and the Mesa Verde National Park. Often found growing in desert and rocky locations[2]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbautista331 (talk • contribs) 00:06, 3 May 2017 (UTC)