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Community Development Article
For the Community development article on Wikipedia, there are numerous problems with how the article is presented. There are a lot of block quotes in the article. While block quotes can be useful sometimes, Wikipedia tends to encourage paraphrasing sources more. The article also does not cover how wide of a category this topic actually is. Despite how prevalent this topic is in each person's life (to varying degrees), the article does not cover the various definitions that this term possesses in a satisfactory manner. Not all facts are represented with a citation, and some of the citations are indeed broken. While some of the links can be fixed by redirecting to their respective Internet Archive links, I worry that some PDF documents may not be preserved. Additionally, one section of the talk page for the Community & Regional Development course suggests merger with the Community mobilization article, which another editor disagrees with.
Ultimately, I've learned that editing an article on Wikipedia will require a LOT of digging around sources to obtain the original material. Additionally, the term should be defined more so as to make it distinguishable from other "community" related articles.Ekcy (talk) 04:00, 11 April 2017 (UTC)