User:Annafilippovaa/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

 * Article title
 * History of communication by presidents of the United States
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated as start class, meaning it needs more information to fill in the gaps, further this article is also a part of the Wikiproject Politics. This topic is relatively broad and the beginning opening description is broad as well and doesn't provide much context or overview as to what the article is about. The article breaks down only 6 ways that presidents communicate with the public, even though in the realm of social media there are many more. It lacks detail of historic events, for example the Direct Addresses section only refers to George Washington and no other president. There are also no visuals or graphics to go along with the content. I think this article could use elaboration on the direct addresses section, white house website section, and social media specifically however the article as a whole could also use some major detail.
 * This article is rated as start class, meaning it needs more information to fill in the gaps, further this article is also a part of the Wikiproject Politics. This topic is relatively broad and the beginning opening description is broad as well and doesn't provide much context or overview as to what the article is about. The article breaks down only 6 ways that presidents communicate with the public, even though in the realm of social media there are many more. It lacks detail of historic events, for example the Direct Addresses section only refers to George Washington and no other president. There are also no visuals or graphics to go along with the content. I think this article could use elaboration on the direct addresses section, white house website section, and social media specifically however the article as a whole could also use some major detail.


 * Sources
 * https://www.thetrumparchive.com/insights/frequency website breaking down trump tweets by topic and has graphics depicting the percentage of topics
 * https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trumps-long-history-with-conspiracy-theories/ website breaking down misinformation that Trump spread, this includes twitter and other forms of social media
 * https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/11/18/key-facts-about-truth-social-as-donald-trump-runs-for-u-s-president-again/ website breaking down 'Truth Social' the social media app created by Donald Trump

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Social media in the 2020 United States presidential election
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated as c class, and is a part of Wikiproject United States and Wikiproject Elections and Referendums. The beginning intro paragraphs actually provide a pretty good preview as to what the article is about. Again there is only one graphic/image to go along with the content, but this article could really benefit from potentially having examples of tweets or graphics depicting the misinformation that Trump notoriously spread through Twitter. There is some information about candidates other than Trump and Biden, but it could really use some expansion because there's about one sentence for the two other candidates mentioned, who were both democratic. A particularly interesting detail to include would be the entirely social media based campaign of Kanye West. The influencer section of this article also has major potential, but is missing specificity like particular influencers that spoke out during the 2020 election. One of the really big strengths of this article is that it is pretty neutral despite a polarizing issue. This article overall could use lots of elaboration and detailed specificity with the use of examples within all sections.
 * This article is rated as c class, and is a part of Wikiproject United States and Wikiproject Elections and Referendums. The beginning intro paragraphs actually provide a pretty good preview as to what the article is about. Again there is only one graphic/image to go along with the content, but this article could really benefit from potentially having examples of tweets or graphics depicting the misinformation that Trump notoriously spread through Twitter. There is some information about candidates other than Trump and Biden, but it could really use some expansion because there's about one sentence for the two other candidates mentioned, who were both democratic. A particularly interesting detail to include would be the entirely social media based campaign of Kanye West. The influencer section of this article also has major potential, but is missing specificity like particular influencers that spoke out during the 2020 election. One of the really big strengths of this article is that it is pretty neutral despite a polarizing issue. This article overall could use lots of elaboration and detailed specificity with the use of examples within all sections.


 * Sources
 * https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jul/05/kanye-west-declares-he-will-run-for-us-president-in-2020 article describing Kanye's announcement for presidency
 * https://www.vox.com/2019/3/11/18256198/andrew-yang-gang-presidential-policies-universal-basic-income-joe-rogan article describing 'Yang Gang' and their social media presence
 * https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/30/charting-congress-on-social-media-in-the-2016-and-2020-elections/ study describing how political parties used social media in the 2020 election, could be used for graphics and stats

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Party platform


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated as start class, and is a part of Wikiproject Politics and Wikiproject Elections and Referendums. The beginning introduction is pretty solid but it is basically just a definition of the term party platform. A really great section to include that seems to be missing is the impact of political party platforms of voters, and how political party platforms have changed over time like with social media. This article is also lacking detail over what the famous political party platforms were, even a brief sentence would suffice. Further, this article seems to not have many modern examples of political party platforms like MAGA. There are also barely any sources, however the article appears to be neutral. Further, there is only one visual to depict the concept. This article appears to be incomplete mainly because there is no elaboration on the examples, and very few sections to the article.


 * Sources
 * https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/USA-ELECTION-TRUMP-MAGA/0H001BBVZ2XL/index.html graphic of what maga means to voters
 * https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020 republican party platform 2020 and 2016
 * https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2020-democratic-party-platform democratic party platform 2020

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