User:Amygross/sandbox

Comments from Heather
2.25.2019- Nice work, Amy! Your next step is to focus. Is the African American Women in World War II speaking to a particular part of the article? What part? Same with the Weatherford and Tomblin sources. Be targeted in the sources you look for...get the ones that the article needs. In this way, you'll act as a fact-checker, finding the info. at Butte College library that exists already in the article. Does that make sense? Next week, please copy and paste, following the instructions that includes links, the parts of the article you'll work on into this Sandbox space with a new heading like "article draft" and start working on it.

3.25.2019- Wow, you did a lot! :) Next, write these new facts up so they read like a Wikipedia article and not just a bulleted list.  Put citations after each like you learned in Editing basics.  I'll check what you complete here and give you the thumbs up before your final move to the main space, okay?

4.5.2019- Nice work, Amy. Especially reading sources closely and eliminating them when needed! Move your work to main space article! :)

Amy's Work Log
I have chosen to update the Wikipedia article of Women in the World Wars. There are many opportunities for me to add citations with more information on the subject, eliminate biases, and fact check extensively and possibly remove false information. I will do so by using these reliable sources:

March 3rd - I started an article draft of the first paragraph and fact checked it with information on the Butte College library and data base and also checked the sources it referenced. I am concerned with the first reference and will look into it more later this week. I will also work on more fact checking of existing sources and finding reputable replacement ones when necessary later in the week.

~ 45 minutes

March 17th - I researched more of the book Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War Ii and found many facts in just the second page that could be easily added to the article. I started a list of notes and facts below of what I plan to edit and add to the article. Skimming the book took longer than I anticipated and it was harder to find facts than I thought.

~ 45 minutes

March 31st - I re-worded the facts that I found on African American in World War II to be added to the Wikipedia article itself with the correct citation. I also found and added a citation and information to the first paragraph written in bold that will hopefully strengthen the statistics it claims. I also had some questions below on what I feel I should eliminate from the article and a brief description as to why, primarily poor references. Otherwise I would like to add the paragraph form Article Drafts and Notes and African Americans In World War II found below.

~ 1 hour

April 3rd - I changed a word in my section African Americans in World War II and re-read my work to check for grammatical errors.

~ 5 minutes

April 7th - I moved my work into the correct places of the main space article and let the community know what I was planning on doing on the Talk Page. I also removed a source and its information that was not credible and decided to leave 2 other sources that upon further inspection seemed to be okay.

~ 1 hour

Article Drafts & Notes
In Great Britain just before World War I there were 24 million adult women and 1.7 million worked in domestic service, 800,000 worked in the textile manufacturing industry, 600,000 worked in the clothing trades, 500,000 worked in commerce, and 260,000 worked in local and national government, including teaching.The British textile and clothing trades, in particular, employed far more women than men and were regarded as 'women's work'. '''During WWII, in total, 6 million women were added to the workforce in what resulted as a major cultural shift. With the men fighting in the wars, women were needed to take on responsibilities that the men had to leave behind.'''

African Americans In World War II
Out of one million African Americans serving in WWII, 600,000 of them were women. 4,000 of these women served in the Women's Army Corps and 330 of these women served as nurses. African American women also fought for African American rights though media, social activism, etc. A person's race was heavily divided and in the year 1943 there were a documented 242 violent events against African Americans regardless of whether they served in the war efforts or not.

Things from Article to Eliminate?
-Adams, R.J.Q. (1978). ''Arms and the Wizard. Lloyd George and the Ministry of Munitions 1915 - 1916'', London: Cassell & Co Ltd. ISBN 0-304-29916-2. Particularly, Chapter 8: The Women's Part.This is a reference to another Wikipedia article, is this okay?

- Reference 4 of the article goes to a blog i.e. not a credible source. and so should I eliminate the information it is cited for from the article?

- Reference 8 of the article is about the Finnish Civil War and the part that woman played in it. While in reference to a war, it is not about a World War and so I htink that I should remove it from the Article.

Sources I Used:
-American Women's Wartime Dress: Sociocultural Ambiguity Regarding Women's Roles During World War II, Hall, Martha L; Orzada, Belinda T; Lopez-Gydosh, Dilia.The Journal of American Culture; Malden Vol. 38, Iss. 3,  (Sep 2015): 232-242.

-Honey, Maureen. Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War Ii. , 1999. Internet resource.

Thank you and please let me know if you have any advice!