Wikipedia Worksheet

The article that I chose to do my Wikipedia Worksheet on was about "Child Abuse".

1. This article does not have any clean up banners.

2. The article describes what child abuse is and the different types of child abuse. It also clearly states the causes, effects, and ways to prevent child abuse. The article does not take sides about the subject. It simply just states the facts of what child abuse is and ways for it to be prevented. When there are important facts stated, they are each clearly referenced. Lastly, the information given seems thorough and does not present any gaps of information.

3. Under the References section on the Child Abuse article, there were 90 different resources cited. I decided to check the first 10 sources. Each sources seeemed to be credible in it's information. Although they seemed to be credible, each resource had very little information within it. They each only had a few statements or paragraphs on the website.

4. Under the "Talk" tab on the Child Abuse article in Wikipedia, there were 5 ratings. 2 of the ratings were C-Class of high importance. 2 of the other ratings were C-Class mid-imortance and one of the ratings was just simply rated C-Class. They were titled, Wikiproject Law, Wikiproject Crime, Wikiproject Medicine, Wikiproject psychology, and Wikiproject Systems. After looking over each of these, I did not doubt the credibility of the article.

5.  Overall, I would rank this article as partially reliable. Although I could not find any flaws within the sources, Wikipedia should not be the only source used while doing research. I do feel that the majority of the information given in the article was accurate. I feel that people trying to gain knowledge about child abuse should use more than just Wikipedia for information.