Talk:Howard Brown Health

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Peer Review Assignment of Howard Brown Health by Michael Bradford
1. The Howard Brown Health article did a wonderful job of providing plenty of information about the organization. They covered an extensive amount of historical information from their early beginnings to the present day. I did not know that they provided so many services for the LBGTQ community in Chicago from health services, education, job placement, and housing. The amount of work they do to help people is just amazing. It surprised me about the number of properties they have on the Northside and Southside of Chicago that they use for their organization. I think the article gave some perspective of the HIV/AIDs epidemic in Chicago and how the Howard Brown Health organization got started.

2. I think the location section should either be reworded or deleted from the article. The location section should list where Howard Brown Health facilities are located in Chicago. You can place the locations in the box where you have the president and website listed. In the article, there is a repetition about the locations and the services provided in the history section and the location section. I think the location section should just be about the location and not about the services you already talked about in the history section. This will help you avoid repeating yourself and make the article a lot more clearer in your article. Also, double-check your sources some of the sources that I clicked didn't seem to work. For example, source number 4 "MACS History". Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study did not work.

3. The most important thing you can do to improve the article is to check for some grammar errors and maybe condense the history section down to one paragraph. One of the grammar issues I noticed was when you talked about Howard Brown Health Center being named after Dr. Brown. It should be the Health Center was named after Dr. Howard Junior Brown and then include why it was named after him. Also, I think you can change the sections or content in your article. For example, the 2010's section should be changed to National Gay Blood Drive and brief description of Howard Brown's involvement with the Blood Drive. I think in the history section you can create new sections highlighting some things that happened with Howard Brown Health organization.

4. The one thing I notice is you covered a lot of information about Howard Brown Health and really showed me how this organization has grown and their importance of services was needed. If there is one thing I could take away and add to my own article is the history section. My group and I were struggling to find information to add to our history section. This history section gives the readers an idea of who the organization is and what they do. Overall I think you guys did a great job and wish you the best with your project. Tavistokeinstmediapublic (talk) 02:32, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Peer Review by Luke McFarlane
1. I think the separation of dates is a good way to keep your thoughts organized, especially since the organization seems to have a lot of things happening in a chronological order. It helps the reader keep on track and process information in an organized way. Also, I like how you included locations and that it's clear that there are branches and it's not a one-stop place. 2. I think the Mission section is a good thing to have, but the first point seems a bit wordy, and since it's the first time mentioning LGBT, you could link to a Wikipedia page about LGBT. Also, the second point you mention The Broadway Youth Center, but I didn't really understand the connection between that and Howard Brown. Are they owned by Howard Brown? or do they work together? 3. I think the most important thing you could do is to refine the mission section, since it could be a really good way for your readers to immediately understand what the nonprofit is about and what it stands for, but the information in that section doesn't really line up with the what the heading suggests. 4. Keeping a chronological order and headings by years, along with having a mission section is something that we could apply to our Project, especially since our nonprofit is so closely tied to yours. Your page looks looks great!! Mcdomino24 (talk) 21:52, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Peer Review by David
1.) To begin, I thought the structure of the article was well done. I enjoy how you have split the history section into parts based on years. Your links to other references work well and make sense. Also just the amount of content you have been able to generate is also impressive. 2.) I noticed the bot already something, but if you guys were the ones to upload the logo I'm pretty sure that's against Wikipedia policy. When I looked into uploading the logo for the page I'm working for, I found out unless you have the copyright rights or exclusive ownership you can't upload it. So yeah unless HBH or the person that designed it uploads it, you may want to consider taking it down. 3.) An important edit I saw was just making sure you are consistent with the terms you use throughout. Specifically I noticed the terms LGBT and LGBTQ both used in the paper, so make sure to choose one and stick with it for the whole paper. 4.) Ultimately your article is well done, in terms of how I'm going to edit mine in relation to yours, I'm going to attempt to find more content as well as look into whether we should add a see also section. Irishkimchi246 (talk) 16:17, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

TYRA
SHOuld mention this joint venture, when it opened, when it closed and why for both. All the best: Rich Farmbrough  04:38, 14 June 2020 (UTC).

Formerly known as
In two places it says the organization was formerly known as Howard Brown Health Center. Before that it was known as Howard Brown Memorial Clinic. Also, as part of the fascinating history the article could note that it started humbly in a storefront with one private room and a single examining table. And finally, I suppose it is okay to charitably omit any mention of the scandals and turbulence it experienced in the 1980s-90s. ChgoLarry (talk) 23:58, 10 December 2021 (UTC)