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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 Democracy Ranking

A portion of the article doesn't have citation, however, all of the sources seem reliable. The Talk page is empty, no discussion occurred. This article is about an index on liberal democracies. The content is relevant to the topic, and it is written neutrally. But Wikipedia has a warning as to the article having issues and in need of an update. Thus it is an article to work on.update.

Sources

http://democracyranking.org/wordpress/ Roussopoulos, D. I. and Benello, C. G. (2017) Participatory Democracy : Prospects for Democratizing Democracy. Montréal: Black Rose Books. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e864sww&AN=1455966&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020)

Option 2 Freedom House

Article Evaluation The content is relevant to the topic and it is neutral. The article is cited, and all of the resources seem reliable. There are 89 different sources so the article is notable. The Talk page of the article has discussions however they are as huge bulks and so it is not much.

Sources

Tunç, A. (2020) ‘Measuring freedom: Rethinking ranking methodologies’, Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 11(1), p. 97. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=142551978&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Farmer, A. (2011) ‘Working toward community is our full-time focus: Muriel Snowden, black power, and the freedom house, Roxbury, MA’, The Black Scholar, 41(3), p. 17. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbro&AN=edsbro.A301964251&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Axelsen, D. E. (2017) Freedom House. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsgvr&AN=edsgcl.6070900478&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

DENK, T. (2013) ‘How to measure polyarchy with Freedom House: a proposal for revision’, Quality & quantity, 47(6), pp. 3457–3471. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edscal&AN=edscal.27845200&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Högström John (2013) ‘Does the Choice of Democracy Measure Matter? Comparisons between the Two Leading Democracy Indices, Freedom House and Polity IV’, Government and Opposition, 48(2), p. 201. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsjsr&AN=edsjsr.26347393&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Dolunay, A., Kasap, F., Keçeci, G. (2017). Freedom of Mass Communication in the Digital Age in the Case of the Internet: “Freedom House” and the USA Example. Sustainability, 9(10), 1739-. http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_local?sid=CAPTURE:CAPTURE&month=10&title=Sustainability&issue=10&atitle=Freedom%20of%20Mass%20Communication%20in%20the%20Digital%20Age%20in%20the%20Case%20of%20the%20Internet%3A%20%E2%80%9CFreedom%20House%E2%80%9D%20and%20the%20USA%20Example&volume=9&genre=article&issn=2071%2D1050&date=2017&day=07&spage=1739&aulast=Dolunay&aufirst=Ayhan&auinit=A (Accessed: 14 September 2020)

Option 3 Turkish Wikipedia

Article Evaluation

The content is relevant to the topic however does not explain it strongly and thoroughly. It can be developed. The statements are cited and the sources are reliable. The Talk page has only one edit, and it is very brief and not related to the topic of the article.

Sources

‘Turkish Court Formally Blocks Access to Wikipedia’ (2017) TechLife News, (288), p. 170. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edb&AN=122923681&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Poyraz, M. et al. (2012) ‘Exploiting Turkish Wikipedia as a semantic resource for text classification’, 2012 International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications, Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA), 2012 International Symposium on, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1109/INISTA.2012.6246996.

Zaveri, M. (2019) ‘Court Rejects Turkish Wikipedia Ban’, The New York Times, 27 December, p. A6. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbro&AN=edsbro.A609790559&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

The Guardian (London, England) (2019) ‘Turkish court orders country’s Wikipedia block to be lifted; Two-year-old ban is a violation of freedom of expression, justices rule’, 26 December. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbro&AN=edsbro.A609819899&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Hatipoglu, A. and Omurca, S. I. (2016) ‘A Turkish Wikipedia Text Summarization System for Mobile Devices’, International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science, 8(1), pp. 1–10. doi: .DOI: 10.5815/ijitcs.2016.01.01.

The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario) (2017) ‘Turkish court blocks access to Wikipedia; Opposition lawmakers call move “censorship” and liken the country to North Korea.(News)’, 30 April, p. A8. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edscpi&AN=edscpi.A490856534&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Option 4 Selda Bağcan

Article Evaluation

The article is neutral, and has reliable sources. However, it doesn't focus on the subject's activism that much. The focus is more on her art side. Talk page only has a brief paragraph, and no discussion occurred.

Sources

Sharpe, K. (2019) ‘Cultural Revolutions: Turkey and the United States During the Long 1960s’. Available at: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edssch&AN=edssch.oai%3aescholarship.org%2fark%3a%2f13030%2fqt0gt3z87k&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

The Observer (London, England) (2006) ‘OMM: REVIEWS REISSUES ETC: Its not just about folks Young Turks: REISSUE OF THE MONTH: SELDA Selda (Finders Keepers) pounds 11.99 4/5’, 15 October, p. 73. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsbro&AN=edsbro.A152873708&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

https://www.hurriyet.com.tr/kelebek/gesi-baglari-ndan-gezi-baglari-na-24626255

Option 5 Mehmet Ali Alabora

Article Evaluation

The article is neutral, the information is cited. However there are only 2 resources even if they are reliable. There is only a list of external links in the Talk page, and it is not written by an editor, but by a bot.

Sources

https://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/memet-ali-alaboraya-yakalama-karari,7YPqieU4c0-mw6IgOz0noA https://www.sozcu.com.tr/hayatim/kultur-sanat-haberleri/mehmet-ali-alaboranin-esinden-gezi-davasiyla-ilgili-ilk-paylasim/

Option 6 Political Polarization in Turkey

Article Evaluation

There is no article in Wikipedia.

Sources

Bulut, E. and Yoruk, E. (2017) ‘Digital Populism: Trolls and Political Polarization of Twitter in Turkey’, International journal of communication (Online), p. 4093. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edsglr&AN=edsgcl.534020764&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

Kutlu, M. et al. (2019) ‘Embedding-based Qualitative Analysis of Polarization in Turkey [arXiv]’, arXiv. doi: Document URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10213. Silverman, R. (2019) ‘Republican People’s Party People: Partisan Polarization in the Republic of Turkey, 1950-1953’, The Middle East Journal, 73(1), pp. 73–91. Available at: https://search-ebscohost-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=jph&AN=IJP0000283510&site=eds-live (Accessed: 14 September 2020).

AKDEDE, S. H. and KEYİFLİ, N. (2020) ‘Politik Kutuplaşma ve Gelirin Kişisel Dağılımı’, Journal of Management & Economics, 27(2), pp. 337–351. doi: 10.18657/yonveek.646569.

Aydın-Düzgit, S. and Balta, E. (2018) ‘When elites polarize over polarization: Framing the polarization debate in Turkey’, New Perspectives on Turkey, 59, pp. 109–133. doi: 10.1017/npt.2018.22.

KEYİFLİ, N. and AKDEDE, S. H. (2020) ‘Politik Kutuplaşma ve Devletin Ekonomik Boyutu1’, Sosyoekonomi, 28(44), pp. 319–335. doi: 10.17233/sosyoekonomi.2020.02.14.