User:0Blu3bird/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * 1936 Winter Olympics
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is a high importance start class article. I would add much more to the section on Germany and the politics which make this topic relevant. The article mentions the Nazi influence on the Olympic Games, but not how that influence played a part in these games. It must be noted that the location of the games also largely affected this. This article also has not been updated in a very long time which shows it is not up to date, nor has it been organized.
 * Sources
 * Large, David Clay. Nazi Games : the Olympics of 1936. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007
 * Olympic Games 1936. Berlin: The Commission, 1935.

Option 2

 * Female hysteria
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a c class article. It has been recently edited. The introduction lists and links many types of descriptions for what female hysteria was classified as. The content is very relative to the topic, but it is not neutral. It could use rewriting in an encyclopedia style making the topic solely based on the sources. I would change the last section of the article and take out any fiction which could be used as an example.
 * Sources:  Alanazi, Maha S. “Examining the Impact of the Advancements in Nineteenth Century Neuroscience on Drama: An Analysis of Jean-Martin Charcot’s Stages of Female Hysteria in August Strindberg’s Miss Julie.” Theory and practice in language studies 13, no. 9 (2023): 2347–2355.:  Dixon, Laurinda S. Perilous Chastity : Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.

Option 3

 * Mexican American War
 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a C class article which is of top- importance and featured on the main wikipedia page. The article is bias in that it has an American perspective rather than a general encyclopedic style. The article uses persuasive language and does not mention slavery. In fact, the section on slavery on the talk page need revision because of the bias. It also sources an article on the Alamo which does not hold relevance.
 * Sources:  Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience. Raleigh, N.C: Alex Catalogue ; NetLibrary, 2000.:  Bernhardt, Mark. “Red, White, and Black: Opposing Arguments on Territorial Expansion and Differing Portrayals of Mexicans in the New York Sun’s and New York Herald’s Coverage of the Mexican War.” Journalism history 40, no. 1 (2014): 15–27.