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Article Evaluation 1: Aristotelian Ethics

1) Not all of the facts within the article are referenced appropriately. For example, when the article discusses the four cardinal virtues there is not a single citation referencing back to a specific work, this is significant because there are numerous quotes throughout this section of the article. This leads the content of the section to be questioned, not being able to reference back to a scholarly source. This lack of citation occurs a few times throughout the article, more than once having the "citation needed" brackets next to a statement.

2) The majority of the information that is on the article is based directly on Aristotle's work; however, there is some information that is derived from specific articles that are written by different authors. When discussing Aristotle's endoxic method, the article uses Martha Nassbaum's argument. She connects Aristotle's endoxic method to his general philosophical method. The use of Nassbaum's article is an example of a source that could be biased, using her argument to establish information for a section of the article. There are also other sources used throughout the article from different authors and while each is analyzing Aristotle's work from a different perspective, all of the sources are analytically based, each deriving their analysis from the text itself. Most of the sources simply explain some of Aristotle's writings. Any biased that would arise would be derived from the scholarly sources that constructed an argument, an example of which would be Nancy Sherman's Aristotle's Ethics: Critical Essays; however, any possible biases are not addressed anywhere in the article, leading to possible biased interpretations of Aristotle's work.

3) Not all of the sections in the article are equally represented, some being more developed than others. When discussing objections to Aristotle's function argument, the article does not go into detail about this topic, merely using one sentence in an attempt to explain the counter-argument while other topics under this section of the article are explained more thoroughly. Furthermore, another example of this problem can be seen when the article is discussing the highest good. In this section the article offers numerous quotes in order to demonstrate the main point of the section; however, only one line is offered after the main quotes are presented. This demonstrates how not all of the quotes throughout the article are developed and explained as fully as others which leads the article to be less developed, not explaining the evidence it is using.

4) Most of the citations are not linked to an article or text, this leads to a concern in relation to plagiarism and paraphrasing; however, the few links that are attached to specific texts are done well. All of the citations are marked directly on the article and lead you to a specific text are not plagiarized in any way.

5) This article falls under Start-class articles, a designation that I completely agree with. I think that this article has a lot of valuable information that is properly laid out; however, there are some problems concerning citations and underdeveloped topics. While the citations that are in the article are done well, they are not consistent. Only a few of the citations are linked to specific texts. Moreover, some of the topics throughout the article are not fully developed, sometimes placing certain evidence from the text without fully explaining it or only explaining specific aspects of the main point within a section of the article.

Article Evolution 2: Leaktivism

1) While the article is not well developed, all of the citations used are done well. Each of the references are linked to two specific sources: an article in the Guardian and the twitter account of the article’s author. Although there are no problems of plagiarism involved, there is a problem in relation to the variety of the sources. Beyond the two references the article also uses several wikipedia articles when references specific events and people; however, in order to allow the article to be more specific, there would need to be more articles from different authors and websites.

2) Both of the sources used are from the same person: Micah White. This leads to a problem in relation to possible biases, a problem that is not addressed in the article. In order to demonstrate a neutral and balanced explanation of leaktivism there needs to be more authors and sourcesinvolved, something that would not only add information but also different perspectives.

3) The information on this article is out of date, all of the references are from 2008 and 2009. Taking into consideration the manner in which leaking has impacted the political arena in the last presidential election there is a lot more information to be included in relation to this topic. Specific entities such as Wikileaks, a group that has been in the forefront of the political arena, is not mentioned in article. Additions such as these would develop the article in a more contemporary manner, giving specific examples of what leaktivism is and how it has developed over the years.

4) I think that the information that the article represents in relation to Micah White is not relevant to the article. While his significance within the movement should be explained within a section of the article, it does not make sense that he should be a main point. Instead, there should be a more developed definition off what leaktivism is, focusing on the term and the manner in which it has manifested itself over the years. There aren't any examples of leaktivism beyond White, incorporating such information would demonstrate the impact this movement has had, being larger than just one individual person.

5) This article is categorized as a stub and it is because of this that it does not have a rating on the quality scale. I think that this article needs a lot of work, expanding on the definition of leaktivism and going into specific examples.

ROUGH DRAFT [The original article is a stub]

Leaktivism

Leaktivism is defined as the action of distributing confidential documents to the public in an attempt to directly impact the socio-economic and political spheres. The term Leaktivism was popularized by Micah White, the co-founder of the Occupy Movement, in relation to the Panama Papers.

The Panama Papers

The Panama Papers are a collection of 11.5m leaked files from one of the world’s largest law firms, Mossack Fonseca A German newspaper called Süddeutsche Zeitung was able to obtain the database from an anonymous source. The different files demonstrated the manner in which the different wealthy individuals are able to take advantage of secrete offshore tax regimes

Twelve national leaders are included among the 143 politicians impacted within the leak The Russian president, Pakistan's prime minister, the former Vice-President of Iraq, the President of Ukraine, the father of the British Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister of Iceland are some of the politicians that were incriminated by the leak.

The information leaked in regards to the Panama Papers is considered one of the largest leaks in history. This leak is considered to be larger than both the US diplomatic cables distributed by WikiLeaks in 2010 and the secrete intelligence documents released by Edward Snowden in 2013 . In total there 11.5m documents along with 2.6 terabytes of information taken from the Mossack Fonseca’s internal database

Micah White

Micah White is the co-founder of Occupy and a democratic activist. His article in the Guardian states that the Panama Papers illustrate the rising of leaktivism. He argues that the Panama Papers show that leaking information can be an impactful form of protest White argues that the leaks have the ability to destabilize numerous governments throughout the globe, impacting the credibility of powerful world leaders

White states that the Panama Papers have resulted in positive social change. He uses the example of the Prime Minister from Iceland, who was forced to resign from his position. However, he does argue that while the resignation of some corrupt political leaders is progress, it does not solve the larger problem; namely, that our world is being run by the top 1% He says that individuals must go beyond traditional activism and try different methods of protest, developing the manner in which our society protests in relation to the technology that is developing.

White concludes his article by stating that the main problem that the Panama Papers illustrates is a questions concerning the governance of our world. The leak demonstrates who is actually in power. He further argues that the distribution of the papers will only be successful if it bring upon change"