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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1[edit]

Article title
Building-integrated agriculture
Article Evaluation
Content in the article is relevant but limited. Description of more examples would be useful. More numerical data behind the advantages and implementation would be beneficial, as would be schematics or diagrams detailing the concept's implementation. Pictures to help illustrate the examples would also be beneficial.
Sources are cited for nearly all claims. However, as shown in the messages on the Talk:Building-integrated agriculture page, there are issues with the external links in the sources, some of which do not work.
The tone of the article needs refinement at times. The first sentence of the article claims the method can "exploit synergies between the built environment and agriculture," but clearly has not established that such connections exist. The "Background" section is also essentially a list of reasons or justifications for building-integrated agriculture, but does not describe the history of the concept. Only the "Environmental advantages" are analyzed in a section; challenges or controversies are not presented. Moreover, an alternative approach, vertical farming, is presented in a negative light, as the high cost of vertical farming is the main characteristic highlighted.
The page is rated as Start-Class but Low-importance in the WikiProject Agriculture.
Sources
  • K. Specht et al., "Urban agriculture of the future: an overview of sustainability aspects of food production in and on buildings," Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 31, pp. 33-51, March 2014. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-013-9448-4.
    • Analytical history of urban environmental integration efforts.
    • Includes description of reasoning and potential opportunity for building-integrated agriculture.
    • Considers the extent of the use of building-integrated agriculture and its impact on different aspects of environmental preservation.
  • L. Astee and N. Kishnani, "Building Integrated Agriculture: Utilising Rooftops for Sustainable Food Crop Cultivation in Singapore," J. Green Building, vol. 5 no. 2, pp. 105-113, May 2010. https://doi.org/10.3992/jgb.5.2.105
    • Singapore used as a case study for implementing building-integrated agriculture.
    • Extrapolates results to worldwide implementation for changes in global production and emissions.

Option 2[edit]

Article title
Agrivoltaic
Article Evaluation
The article has a substantial amount of content that appears relevant to the topic and provides a fairly thorough description of its basis and examples of implementation so far.
Sources are lacking for claims and facts in several places, including about the expansion of agrivoltaics mentioned in the lead and several of the examples given in the article body. Moreover, one of the main sources used is a review, "The Potential of Agrivoltaic Systems," published by two individuals from Michigan Technological University, and the primary editor was a student enrolled in the University of Michigan - thus, it is not clear if some of the information presented is original research. Moreover, the review itself cites many scholarly sources that might be used directly instead.
There are some content errors, particularly with the examples: the subheading "France," for instance, has no text beneath it.
Typos are significant in the later sections, especially "Dynamic Agrivoltaic," "Effects," "Advantages," and "Disadvantages."
The Talk page states that the page is part of a course at the University of Michigan, and is assigned to User:Haircommander.
Sources
  • S. Amaducci et al., "Agrivoltaic systems to optimize land use for electric energy production," Appl. Energy, vol. 220, pp. 545-561, June 2018. https://doi-org.libproxy2.usc.edu/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.03.081.
    • Numerical simulation of different agrivoltaic configurations.
    • Analysis of total land productivity and energy use.
  • N. Irie et al., "Sector-wide social impact scoping of agrivoltaic systems: A case study in Japan," Renewable Energy, vol. 139, pp. 1463-1476, Feb. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2019.02.048.
    • Review of policy implications of the increased integration of renewable energy.
    • Considers social/popular opposition to some aspects of renewable technologies.
    • Uses specific incidents in Japan as an example.

Option 3[edit]

Article title
Sustainable architecture
Article Evaluation
Substantial sections of the article are well-written, balanced, and appropriately cited. However, there are some technical issues where it appears pictures in two places have been deleted or unlinked but visible WikiCode still displays the caption and image file name.
Several sections have been highlighted for key issues. "Building Placement" does not cite any sources and is structured in more of an argumentative form. The section "Criticism" is written using rhetorical questions and other argumentative strategies. Even in other sections, phrases use slanted language to present information, for instance: "Adopting this framework allows tracing a rich history of cultural debates…" These do not meet Wikipedia's standards for a balanced tone.
Diagrams and pictures of examples are provided and annotated. Numerical values are also provided for many of the design descriptions. Benefits and drawbacks are presented for possible design components.
The page is rated as a Start-Class article, but is High-importance on WikiProject Architecture.
Sources
  • T. Williamson, A. Radford, and H. Bennetts, Understanding Sustainable Architecture. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2002. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/socal/detail.action?docID=180763.
    • Description of sustainability elements and challenges.
    • Consideration of aspects of sustainable building design.
  • B. Bielek, "Green Building - Towards Sustainable Architecture," Appl. Mechanics and Materials, vol. 824, pp. 751-760, Jan. 2016.

Option 4[edit]

Article title
Green urbanism
Article Evaluation
The bulk of the article seems to be paraphrasing directly from just a few sources. Citations for these are often present but not in standard Wikipedia format: the author name and publication date are inserted in a parenthetical in-line citation. The sources are not linked, but do provide enough information to be able to find the articles online. However, the editor likely violated copyright with this publication: for instance, the fifteen principles of green urbanism are listed, with the principle topic phrase taken directly and the remainder of the argument summarized. Moreover, sources and authors are often explicitly named in the article, rather than their ideas compiled into a cohesive description.
Aside from mechanical errors, the writing in the article does not maintain a neutral tone. Sweeping statements such as "As such it [green urbanism] poses a vision that can be applied to any city, rich or poor" should be avoided. The "Practical approaches" section in fact seems to make an argument about the benefits of green urbanism on sustainable policymaking. The overall flow of the article, with the first section after the lead describing "Urbanization and environmental degradation" in the abstract sense, also flows in the style of an argumentative essay.
No visuals of any kind are provided. There are also few examples of its current or proposed implementation discussed. Rather, the article says "Many cities now have Sustainable Action Plans," citing a source leading to the plan for a single city.
The article is rated as Start-Class but has not received an importance rating from the WikiProject Environment to which it belongs. It is also Start-Class and not rated for importance in the WikiProject Urban studies and planning.
Sources
These sources would be useful in providing general background from their introductory sections as well as examples illustrating the implementation of the green urbanism strategy in different regions.

Option 5[edit]

Article title
Principles of intelligent urbanism
Article Evaluation
The article is quite long, describing ten principles of intelligent urbanism in detail. However, very few sources are cited, so many claims are made without basis, mostly in the form of general, qualitative statements reflecting assumptions about potential impacts or outcomes. The specific list of the ten principles is derived solely from a personal website, and in fact a significant portion of the first sentence (along with the actual principles themselves) is copied verbatim from the link provided in References.
As a result, the tone of the article also deviates from the encyclopedic character of Wikipedia, and reads more like a statement of values and goals.
Very little additional information is provided about the implementation of the principles besides a brief list of particular cases, which are cited appropriately.
No visuals or graphics of any kind are provided.
Given the specific topic of the article - namely, one academic's philosophy on a subject - the article should likely be condensed, developed appropriately so as to not violate copyright, and then incorporated into another existing article, such as Sustainable urbanism.
Sources
  • C. Benninger, "Principles of intelligent urbanism: The case of the new Capital Plan for Bhutan," Ekistics, vol. 69 no. 412, pp. 60-80, June 2002. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43619538.
    • The original study proposing the "principles of intelligent urbanism" should likely still be referred to in restructuring the article for appropriate incorporation into an existing page.
  • R. Kitchin, "The real-time city? Big data and smart urbanism," GeoJournal, vol. 79, pp. 1-14, Nov. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-013-9516-8.
    • Considers application of data in cities
    • Would serve as application and specific backing for some of the principles proposed by Benninger.
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