Talk:Decarceration in the United States

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 23 August 2021 and 10 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): GOGHVAN195.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 19:53, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

AfC comments
This article can be improved in the following ways:
 * Give less weight to individual newspaper articles such as the Washington Post articles, minimising the number and length of direct quotes, instead finding multiple sources on the same topic and combining them as concisely as possible.
 * Move less relevant material to other articles in the subject area and more tightly structure the article, with a clearer flow, making clearer the relevance of each section and why the article would be incomplete without it.
 * Add more sources for authoritative claims like "Led predominantly by modern-day Black feminists, the prison abolition movement was inspired ..." or soften or remove the statements to match the available sourcing.
 * Rewrite to more tightly conform to our lack of editorial voice and WP:NPOV.
 * Summarise each of the article's main sections in two to four paragraphs in the lead, rather than one.
 * Introduce more historical sources or otherwise re-title the article to make clear the historical period to which it pertains.

Despite all of these issues, I accepted the current article as it contains huge amounts of valuable content and can be better improved in mainspace than as a draft. It is a clearly notable topic, sufficiently different from related articles like Criminal justice reform in the United States, though some content may be better included at other pages.

I note also in its favour that a detailed copyright check found no issues, that spotchecks of sourcing found the article's content to be representative of the subject, that opposition to decarceration and many contested ideas discussed in the article are included prominently and that sources used are thoroughly reliable and very numerous.

This is an exceptional starting point for an article, but it's far from the endpoint and I hope to see it improved by collaboration. — Bilorv ( talk ) 21:58, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Understanding and Navigating Health Inequities in the time of COVID
we are working on wikipedia updates as part of a university course, and looking to focus on the impact of covid on prisoners. We're planning on adding content as well as:
 * centralizing information by adding links to other pages: making sure that all the pages can easily be navigated between
 * update information focusing more on recent developments
 * searching to identify organizations/resources WITH MAYBE generating a subsection on actions/groups working on this issue
 * taking out the section on the "San Francisco district attorning Chesa Boudin"-- good information but feels random as is the only individual discussed

Knkn8 (talk) 22:31, 1 March 2022 (UTC)Knkn8