User:Ahiredits/sandbox

Article Evaluation
Delegative democracy
 * Broken up into the sections that it is, the article has information that is very relevant to the article topic. The direct democracy information used to contrast with delegative democracy may be less relevant than the rest.
 * The article seems largely neutral since none of its claims seem to be rather biased.
 * Viewpoint is a little overrepresented like in the "Contrasted with representative democracy" section.
 * The citation links do in fact work and the source seems to support the article.
 * There is not a source or cite after every sentence even though each sentence carries information. Information comes from pdfs, websites, videos, and books. For the most part, the sources are pretty unbiased.
 * It would take extra research for me to see if there is more to add.
 * The information is mostly definitions, explanations, and examples which don't seem like they will be out-of-date anytime soon.
 * On the Talk page, there seems to be some talk on why the article should not be deleted and how someone thinks the article should include something on proportional representation.
 * The article "needs additional citations for verification."
 * It is a part of the WikiProject Politics
 * Bulleted list item
 * This is different than how we learned it in class, because I think it is much more detailed and explained in a complex way.

Areas of improvement for Barbara Simons' article

 * Not much information on her work.
 * The article does not really say what her work actually was or what tasks she performed.

Areas of improvement for delegative democracy article

 * Blockchain is only mentioned under what's going on in Australia
 * Bring in the blockchain innovation that's going on in America

Areas of improvement for pirate party article

 * Lacks a clear definition of a pirate party
 * Common policies section needs more than just bullets like details and examples.

Finalizing my topic and finding sources (liquid democracy)

 * Since a lot of the information in the article is uncited, I would either find the sources for those and cite them or make my own sentences about something similar. If I have to do that I'll mention it on the talk page maybe before and after I do it.

Bibliography
 * https://medium.com/organizer-sandbox/liquid-democracy-true-democracy-for-the-21st-century-7c66f5e53b6f
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg0_Vhldz-8
 * http://procaccia.info/papers/liquid.pdf
 * http://kellogg.nd.edu/sites/default/files/old_files/documents/172_0.pdf
 * http://www.brynosaurus.com/deleg/deleg.pdf
 * https://bford.github.io/2014/11/16/deleg.html
 * https://u.osu.edu/latampolitics17/2017/02/19/delegative-democracy-a-failure-of-consolidation/
 * http://www.unsam.edu.ar/profesores/LucasGonzalez/LGonzalez-Unpacking%20Delegative%20Democracy.pdf
 * https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-voting-may-lead-to-liquid-democracy-globally-in-20-years
 * https://blog.united.vote/2016/09/21/what-is-liquid-democracy/
 * https://uniteddiversity.coop/2013/07/19/liquid-democracy-is-not-delegative-democracy/
 * http://christinazuber.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Blum-Zuber_Liquid-Democracy.pdf

Liquid Democracy Draft

 * Apparently, some credible sources use the term "liquid democracy" and "delegative democracy" interchangeably while others think liquid democracy is a form of delegative democracy or that delegative democracy is just the ideology behind it. I plan on explaining the sides of this controversy.


 * Liquid democracy is a voting method in which voters have the option of delegating their votes to other voters instead of directly voting themselves.


 * Delegative democracy is meant to "minimize the burden" on those who don't wish to take part in voting.


 * While the current article explains how delegative democracy is different from both representative and direct, it does not mention that delegative is more like a combination of the other two.


 * I'm also thinking of including a little history behind it by mentioning how relatively new it is compared to the other two types of democracies and how it came to be.


 * I plan on including a brief algorithmic explanation of the delegative democracy.


 * The article doesn't discuss blockchain except in an example about Australia. I'll explain more about how blockchain works, how it'll be used in democracy in America, and what it'll enable voters to do.


 * I plan to also mention what liquid democracy leads to, like a president suffering "wildest swings in popularity."


 * I'm continuing the search of finding the sources in which the authors of the article wrote uncited information. If I still do not find anything and if I don't get a response from someone on the talk page telling me not to delete it, I may delete it and replace it with similar information that is cited.

Responses to Peer Reviews
In response to what Ella had to say, I agree with her opinion. The lead section should have more meat than it currently does. I definitely plan on adding citations to get rid of the flag on the article.

I appreciated Isha Patel's review as well. I plan on going into blockchain way more than the current article. I have checked my sources and they are good.

Isha Ajmera's article validated my concern of having unbiased references. I appreciate her kind words.