User:AshlynkD/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
 * Cancel culture
 * I'm interested in the intersections of internet and culture, as well as communication as interpersonal, societal, and cross cultural communication more and more takes place online on the public stage of the internet. It is also interesting to note where censorship and ostracization is deemed permissible by different groups in order to shame, punish, or discourage certain behaviors. It's also interesting to note that it occurs across political boundaries, people with many different political perspectives at times disagreeing or agreeing with it. Some call it activism while others call it censorship. It's also intriguing to observe what types of individuals it isn't always completely effective on and for which individuals it can change their whole lives.


 * Article Evaluation


 * Content
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * The section on the etymology of 'cancelled' seems a little distracting and possibly irrelevant if not inaccurate. I'm not sure that the term 'cancelled' as it is being used today can, in fact, be traced to an 80s song. The section is also missing a crucial citation to a claim.
 * The distinction made between cancel culture and consequence culture seems misleading though I see how it could be relevant. I think cancel culture is mischaracterized in the comparison though.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * I think it may be out of date to say that often celebrities are those 'cancelled' since recently an uptick in those dubbed "Karens" are being cancelled, who are often non-celebrities. Regarding the subject of Karens, I think the phenomena of Karens and the whole concept with references to specific cases might be relevant to this article.
 * I also think this article could just benefit from some specific examples of what might be dubbed 'cancel culture'. Relatedly, there could definitely be an expansion of the "In popular culture" section since it seems to be a very popular subject politically, socially, and entertainment-wise.
 * Maybe we could find more of a charted history of the rise of the practice/term or even look into what led into that rise. We could make some historical comparisons if appropriate.
 * Maybe there could be a section on how effective or ineffective it has been and how those being 'cancelled' have responded to it.
 * I don't think I've seen a section where the actual real-life effects of cancel culture have been mentioned, whether societally or for specific public figures.
 * Maybe there could be whole sections on looking at cancel culture through the lens of activism and looking at it through the lens of censorship.
 * Can you identify any notable equity gaps? Does the article underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations?
 * I think this article does start to speak on marginalized populations, noting power dimensions of how cancel culture is used and groups who tend to oppose it.
 * What else could be improved?
 * I think the Description section could be improved as I think the article should give more description on what it is, as I said previously, but I'm not sure how appropriate just giving definitions from Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com are. I think we could raise the standard a bit in this way.
 * The Academic Analysis section could just be written a little better I think. I think academic stances towards cancel culture could be explained a little more rather than almost just a listing of what different academics have said about in successive sentences.
 * I think this sentence could be moved from the Reactions section elsewhere like maybe the lead as it might make more sense there : "The expression cancel culture has mostly negative connotations and is used in debates on free speech and censorship."
 * The section titled "Criticism of the concept" has many claims which are not really criticism of the concept, but criticism of treating it as a new phenomenon or arguments about when it applies.
 * Tone
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * It feels very slanted towards American culture, where I would think that there is a prevalence of cancel culture, however I'm sure there is cancel culture outside of the US as well. So, more content representing views outside of the US could be added.
 * American presidents and figures are referenced and there is even an "American public opinion" section, but not any other countries or regions.
 * Sources
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * All of the links I checked worked. Most of the sources seem to support reports of viewpoints and such.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * I think most of the sources are decently reliable. Several of them are opinion editorial pieces and blog-post style sources, which is appropriate in some cases, but not for others. There are many journal articles and books and scholarly sources though as well.
 * Do the sources come from a diverse array of authors and publications?
 * The sources do seem to come from a diverse array of authors and publications.


 * Sources
 * (* sorry, I cannot figure out how to get the link to the source to display the title and author of the source for you as well for some reason)
 * I think this source may help with the primarily American focus of this article on cancel culture as it speaks a bit on cancel culture in Britain as part of its culture war.
 * I think this article could help formalize definitions of cancel culture as well as help explain the phenomenon more and provide support for content towards an 'effects of cancel culture' section.
 * I think this article could help consider the communicative aspects behind cancel culture.
 * I think this article could help consider the communicative aspects behind cancel culture.
 * I think this article could help consider the communicative aspects behind cancel culture.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Mental health in education
 * Though this article is C-class already, I think as a college student who has struggled with mental health issues throughout her education that I am interested in and could contribute to this article still. Maintaining mental health, managing illness, and upkeeping a safe and welcoming environment is key to any child's or adult's education and success. Similarly, those things are also key in successful and healthy communication with yourself, others, and with society at large. I think adding to this article is only all the more relevant as well as we've seen the debilitating effects of a global pandemic damage mental wellbeing, especially of children in school, and disrupt communication in a variety of ways as well.


 * Article Evaluation


 * Content
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Everything seems relevant.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * As a user mentioned in the talk page, sections could be added on what specific stressors concerning mental health students might be experiencing in and out of school; how those have been and are being addressed; what topics specific mental health curriculum are covering; and mental health resources that are available to students.
 * I found a few places where links to other wiki pages could be added. For example, where one section references social anxiety, even capitalizing it, I think it would be appropriate to add that link.
 * Can you identify any notable equity gaps? Does the article underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations?
 * The article does not go into specific stressors to mental health that students may experience in school, which I think, if included, could cover stress students might experience as a result of their membership within different marginalized or nondominant identities. Especially as racial tensions have increasingly become a source of discomfort, stress, conflict, controversy, and more, for parents and students in school alike, I think something definitely needs to be mentioned here.
 * What else could be improved?
 * I found a few areas that need a bit of copyediting such as when a word was left out in one area, some grammatical errors, and syntax errors where the sentence would make better sense structured differently.
 * Since the page is broadly about mental health at any stage in one's educational life, I think it might benefit the article to have a section where it might differentiate and identify mental health aspects that are specific and unique to different stages of education. For example, some stressors that students might have in elementary school might differ greatly from stressors in college, though they may be living with the same illness still.
 * Much more could be added to the "Alleviation" section.
 * More references could be added in the "See also" section.
 * The Covid-19 section needs to be moved elsewhere as its current location and organization within the article doesn't seem completely appropriate.
 * Tone
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * I think this article could work on its neutrality a bit, as well as maintaining an encyclopedic tone. Some unsubstantiated claims are made throughout the article that reveal what the author of those sections may have encountered in their experiences, but have not been cited, may not be always true, and could be worded better. For example in the ADHD section, it reads "The most frequent misused ADHD medicines is Adderall, but many other stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Methylin have also been found as in most cases these drugs are getting from friends."
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * I think more countries' and their stances on mental health in education could be included in this article as primarily the US is focused on in this article, though it does remark on a few countries on a basic, surface level.
 * Sources
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * All but one of the links I checked worked (it linked to a 'page not found' on that website), but a few sources do not seem to be properly cited.
 * The sources do seem to support the claims, though, some sources are heavily relied upon throughout the article to support a lot of different chunks of information. Since I'm sure an abundance of information and additional sources exist on this subject with even more attention now, I'm sure we could add additional citations to these claims to express academic consensus on these claims, if there is presumably consensus.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * There are a few inferential or seemingly common sense claims that need to be cited, but many claims do have citations to seemingly reputable and reliable sources such as national institutes dedicated to these issues, journal articles, medical studies.
 * In the section covering different countries' stances on mental health in education, the countries' sections only have one or two citations if any citations at all which needs to be amended.
 * There are also a few points where a source is referenced within the sentence, but not cited there.
 * There's a section where there are primary sources cited, but secondary sources are also needed.
 * There are a few sympathetic claims that attempt to explain things more, but cannot be properly cited and do not help maintain an encyclopedic tone or attitude in the article. For example, in the section titled "Depression", it reads "Students in college face everyday challenges that cause them to feel overwhelmed. Whether it be drowning in homework, homesickness, or even relationships, college is definitely a wild ride of emotions. Depression in can cause them to have problems in class, from completing their work, to even attending the class at all." This last sentence is cited with a link to a Mayo Clinic page on what parents need to know about college depression, whose credibility and reliability I'm not sure of either.
 * Do the sources come from a diverse array of authors and publications?
 * I think perhaps a bit more diversity in this area could be achieved.


 * Sources
 * I think this article could help to speak on marginalized groups as it concerns mental health in education as well as speak on a few specific stressors for this group.
 * This article can further support info on general and overall daily stressors regarding students' mental health for specifically elementary-aged school kids.
 * I think this article could also help expand the article, providing info on an unconsidered, unique, but important perspective on mental health in education--the perspective of teachers, observed in this study.
 * This article can further support info on general and overall daily stressors regarding students' mental health for specifically elementary-aged school kids.
 * I think this article could also help expand the article, providing info on an unconsidered, unique, but important perspective on mental health in education--the perspective of teachers, observed in this study.
 * I think this article could also help expand the article, providing info on an unconsidered, unique, but important perspective on mental health in education--the perspective of teachers, observed in this study.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Passing (sociology)
 * I'm interested in the ways that the different visible and invisible aspects of our identities are communicated about as well as the assumptions that we make about them and how that affects our communication and how we're perceived. Especially as someone who is a bit racially ambiguous and has unintentionally passed as races outside of my own, I am interested in contributing to this page.
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation


 * Content
 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Since the article is titled "Passing (sociology)", I don't know how relevant it is to include a bit about the etymology of just the word "passing". I think this page is for the concept of passing rather than the simple verb of "to pass" and that information can be found elsewhere, on other pages, if wanted.
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * As some users have mentioned on the talk page, most of the racial talk about passing is about people with any level of African descent passing as fully white or of fully European descent, usually in the context of American slavery. While it is valuable to talk about these things and the historical ramifications, discussion of racial passing doesn't have to be limited to this spectrum and more information about racial passing between other racial identities should be included as well. Historical ramifications of these things could also be added in the context of other countries' history as well.
 * Another area to passing that could potentially be added to this article, provided I find reliable sources, would be when people of fully white and/or European descent deliberately adjust themselves to pass as other races, not revealing their real heritage, and obtain some benefits from it. With such examples as Rachel Dolezal and others generating national controversy and discussion when they earn positions based on their perceived race, I think it might be valuable to add information on observations of how aspects of power and appropriation come into play here.
 * More observations could possibly be added about discussions in the public sphere and in popular discourse about passing as it relates to racial experiences and claims to membership in different racial groups. For example, I've heard discussion about the rapper Logic, who is half-black and half-white but passes as fully white, with some saying that since he is not usually assumed to be black and as a result has not been subject to the mistreatment that most black Americans have that he doesn't have as strong of a claim to the label 'black'. Others, of course disagree with this statement. Regardless, I think mention of it might be relevant to this page.
 * Perhaps mention of Audre Lorde's 'mythical norm' alongside notions of social hierarchies might be appropriate in the article since often those that pass as another identity are assumed to be a part of that 'mythical norm' or deliberately attempt to pass as part of it for safety reasons.
 * Can you identify any notable equity gaps? Does the article underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations?
 * I think I answered this above.
 * What else could be improved?
 * As the banners on the article denote, multiple sections on passing as it concerns other aspects of identity like disability and gender and sexuality need to be expanded.
 * Tone
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Sources
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Yes, the links I checked worked and seem to support the claims made. One link did not directly lead to the source being referenced, however, which could be amended.
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * There are several important claims that need citations. Some authors and works that are referenced also need citations. Most of the sources seem appropriately reliable with many being academic and scholarly articles and books which take on mostly neutral stances.
 * Do the sources come from a diverse array of authors and publications?
 * The sources do seem to originate from a diverse array of authors and publications.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Being that this page is inherently about one's membership of different in-groups and out-groups, this article does cover matters of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects, even bringing in intersectionality. However, more content to include and cover even more of these groups could be added as mentioned above.


 * Sources
 * I think this source could bring in a unique and valuable or notable perspective on racial passing, commenting on the effects passing might have on mixed-race children such as guilt and shame they may feel as a result of the passing.
 * This source could be a valuable addition to the article as it could help support claims made to expand the section on passing as it concerns disability.
 * Though I wanted this last source to encompass another aspect of the article that needed expanding like passing and gender/sexuality, or religion, or another race dynamic outside of black and white passing, I found that such literature was hard to come by while content on racial passing in terms of blackness and whiteness was more abundant. So, after frustration in not finding the sources I was looking for in a thirty-minute search, I settled on this one that, while it further contributes to the already discussed passing dynamic on blackness and whiteness, it does bring to the article further comments on intersectionality and passing as well as notions of the conditions to cultural membership which I had touched on earlier.
 * This source could be a valuable addition to the article as it could help support claims made to expand the section on passing as it concerns disability.
 * Though I wanted this last source to encompass another aspect of the article that needed expanding like passing and gender/sexuality, or religion, or another race dynamic outside of black and white passing, I found that such literature was hard to come by while content on racial passing in terms of blackness and whiteness was more abundant. So, after frustration in not finding the sources I was looking for in a thirty-minute search, I settled on this one that, while it further contributes to the already discussed passing dynamic on blackness and whiteness, it does bring to the article further comments on intersectionality and passing as well as notions of the conditions to cultural membership which I had touched on earlier.
 * Though I wanted this last source to encompass another aspect of the article that needed expanding like passing and gender/sexuality, or religion, or another race dynamic outside of black and white passing, I found that such literature was hard to come by while content on racial passing in terms of blackness and whiteness was more abundant. So, after frustration in not finding the sources I was looking for in a thirty-minute search, I settled on this one that, while it further contributes to the already discussed passing dynamic on blackness and whiteness, it does bring to the article further comments on intersectionality and passing as well as notions of the conditions to cultural membership which I had touched on earlier.
 * Though I wanted this last source to encompass another aspect of the article that needed expanding like passing and gender/sexuality, or religion, or another race dynamic outside of black and white passing, I found that such literature was hard to come by while content on racial passing in terms of blackness and whiteness was more abundant. So, after frustration in not finding the sources I was looking for in a thirty-minute search, I settled on this one that, while it further contributes to the already discussed passing dynamic on blackness and whiteness, it does bring to the article further comments on intersectionality and passing as well as notions of the conditions to cultural membership which I had touched on earlier.

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