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Article Evaluation
The following will be my observations from my time on Wikipedia.

For week 3, I am examining Diane Glancy's Wikipedia Page.

Her page seems to be lacking in its amount of citations. There is only one specific reference cited in the article, although there are seven external URL links are provided to pages regarding her work. The section on her life and career seems to be exceptionally short, omitting many details that could be of interest to the reader regarding her family history, upbringing, or personal influences. The section's few sentences, however, seem overly long long without providing the reader with significant amounts of information regarding her life. Its style seems to detract from the precise, strictly informative tone that most Wikipedia articles strive for. The rest of the article consists of a list of her works and awards. While informative, the article's lack of description provided for these accomplishments would seem to detract from the reader's ability to learn more about and understand Diane Glancy as a person and as a professional.

The lack of page citations is a major detraction from Diane Glancy's article. While the sole citation works, not all of the external links continue to work. Diane Glancy's Macalester page link "https://www.macalester.edu/~glancy/index.html" now returns as a 404 Error. This is actually discussed in the talk page of the article, where someone points out that it no longer works. Another editor responded that this was due to Diane Glancy no longer being a professor at Macalester. However, the link was left live in the article, and no action was taken to correct the error. Additionally, the talk page discussed that a NativeWiki link posted in the article was having technical difficulties back in 2011. The link still seems to be having technical difficulties. Besides this, the talk page has been mostly inactive, with the only couple of comments being made in 2011.

This article is part of three wikiprojects: Wikiproject Biography/Arts and Entertainment, Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America, and the Wikiproject Woman Writers. All three projects rate it as a "stub-class" article, with the "Wikiproject Indigenous Peoples of North America" also rating it as a "mid-importance" article. This shows that none of the projects treat Diane Glancy's article as being hugely important to their missions. Additionally, the article says that Diane Glancy is of Cherokee descent, but fails to elaborate as to whether she is a Cherokee citizen or not. In class, we have discussed this as an important distinction when discussing the status of Native American playwrights and cultural figures within indigenous communities.

I left a question on her article's talk page:

Is there any accessible information regarding her personal life and family background, or descriptions regarding her inspirations and works?

Cainedyl (talk) 19:14, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

I added a citation to Paul Goble's Wikipedia page, a well known British illustrator of children's books related to Native American stories.

I additionally added three citations to LeAnne Howe's Wikipedia article, as well as two sentences detailing her previous teaching experience at the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as her educational background. (I created the educational background section).

Cainedyl (talk) 16:01, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

My Assigned Article
I plan to create an article for the bdote memroy map, an online resource that traces Dakota history through its geographic region along the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Here, it offers the viewer to explore Dakota history and culture. It also has many videos and audio, allowing one to listen to the voices of the Dakota, hear their stories, and interact with Dakota beliefs on various sites.

I will try to find out, and write on the history of the project, its inspiration, and its creators, along with a general description of the memory map.

Potential Sources:

http://bdotememorymap.org/

https://mnhum.org/k12/professional-development-educators/bdote-field-trip/ https://mnhum.org/blog/engage-students-community-absent-narratives-resources/ http://public.imaginingamerica.org/blog/article/the-bdote-memory-map/ https://vimeo.com/bdote https://healingmnstories.wordpress.com/tag/bdote-memory-map/ https://bdote.wordpress.com/ https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/place-dakota-stories-bdote-memory-map/ http://humanitieslearning.org/resource/index.cfm?act=1&TagID=&CatID=107&SearchText=&SortBy=1&mediatype=&lurl=1

Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts Of The Minnesota Indian War Of 1862 edited by Gary Clayton Anderson and Alan R. Woolworth

Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Gwen Westerman