User:Asouzawiki/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

 * Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's content encompasses several detriments on behavior and mental wellbeing caused directly by COVID-19. All subtopics covered pertain to the topic of mental health during the pandemic, included but not limited to its causes, prevention and management as prescribed the World Health Organization, and contextual impacts in various countries. Although the article presents several prevention and management techniques already well-established in the literature, it does not adopt a clear stance on the issue. Instead, it describes the situation and future projections and possible treatments for mental health issues caused by the pandemic. Most claims have a citation either at the end of the sentence or at the beginning of the paragraph. However, external sources were not concise enough or poorly organized and consolidated for the subtopic about the impact on mental health specific to Americans. That said, all sources used for this article are reliable, because they have all been written in the past year when COVID-19 has been most relevant. Broad claims are pulled from established secondary sources in academic journals. Brief comments on developing situations or occurrences are pulled from news articles, however. Although the article addresses mental health effects on different age groups and professions, it fails to describe those on minority and marginalized groups, such as the Black and LGTBQ+ communities. Further efforts could be made to mend Wikipedia's equity gap. The section on sufferers of anxiety also only briefly touches upon OCD and PTSD, overlooking the impact of the pandemic on an individual with GAD or an eating disorder. Lastly, the impact on students is not proportionately covered given the amount of studies done on the matter.
 * Sources
 * "Exploring the ways in which COVID‐19 and lockdown has affected the lives of adult patients with anorexia nervosa and their carers."
 * " Family‐based treatment via videoconference: Clinical recommendations for treatment providers during COVID‐19 and beyond"
 * "COVID‐19 and implications for eating disorders"
 * "Telehealth transition in a comprehensive care unit for eating disorders: Challenges and long‐term benefits."
 * "COVID‐19 and implications for eating disorders"
 * "Telehealth transition in a comprehensive care unit for eating disorders: Challenges and long‐term benefits."

"COVID-19-Era Isolation Is Making Dangerous Eating Disorders Worse."

"Born Unequal"

"Mental health and COVID-19: is the virus racist?"

Option 2

 * Science Journalism ***may want to create an entirely new article or a subsection of this article on quick studies
 * Article Evaluation
 * The content included in the article currently all pertains to the overarching topic of public reports on science. It captures how broad the genre of writing is as well as notable writers for further reading, but it also fails to include the quick study, which comprises an important sphere of public writing that makes science accessible to the public. Though public writing and journalism have clear distinctions, I believe that the quick study is best encompassed by this Wikipedia article. "Science Journalism" includes an overview of the genre, but the bulk of it covers its current status (ie its recent evolution as a genre of writing) and its criticisms. Accordingly, it mostly references academic journals about journalism and communication as fields. These are reliable secondary sources that describe well-established models for science journalism. They could significantly inform the history of the field, particularly its limitations. Cited news articles, though their reliability may be disputed, are recent and give more insight into criticism that the field faces, as well as the Chocolate Hoax, which is an example of where science journalism lacks in credibility. There is room under the "Criticism" subsection for more discussion on how minorities or minority may be disenfranchised by the current status of science journalism.
 * Sources
 * Science Journalism : An Introduction
 * "Nothing but the facts a critical analysis of science reporting in American newspapers" -- dissertation
 * "Challenges for journalism on science in the corona pandemic - first observations on a world event"
 * "Who Are the Metropolitan Daily Newspaper Science Journalists, And How Do They Work?"
 * "Who Are the Metropolitan Daily Newspaper Science Journalists, And How Do They Work?"

Option 3

 * Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
 * Article Evaluation
 * The content in the article provides great breadth on the ethical standards and issues of artificial intelligence. Robots are under great scrutiny in this field, so it is fitting that their ethics are covered in great depth. The article does not just take a high-level, theoretical perspective on biases in robots and machines, however. It also lists AI Ethics Organizations and an overview of AI ethics in fiction, linking to the main article. Nearly every claim is substantiated with evidence from reputable secondary sources on the subject, most of them published within the past decade when machine biases took front and center of the artificial intelligence field. The article reaches for the Wikipedia equity gap in its "Biases in AI Systems" subsection, providing examples of discrimination against minorities by machines. Though the article does not take a clear stance on the issue, it does detail secondary sources that call for a greater look at the biases in machines and its many implications. The article manages to maintain a neutral tone while detailing an important societal issue for readers to appreciate and take action on.
 * Sources
 * "Human Factors in Model Interpretability: Industry Practices, Challenges, and Needs"
 * "Machine Learning Interpretability: A Survey on Methods and Metrics"
 * "Bias in data‐driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey"
 * "Machine Learning Interpretability: A Survey on Methods and Metrics"
 * "Bias in data‐driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey"

Option 4

 * Cognitive Anthropology
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a stub, so it provides quick overviews of advancements already made in this smaller subset of the broader field but misses some key points and concepts, such as the impact of linguistics on cultural cognition. Furthermore, the article makes several claims that could be expanded on but are instead pointed to a single secondary source or study, like the criticism of cognitive science and cognitive anthropology occupying different schools of thought. The article does maintain a neutral tone, simply providing quick descriptions of the history, scope, and methods of the field. A lot of the information in this article comes from one source, which is concerning but probably expected if the field lacks literature on it specifically due to its strong ties to the more widely studied field of ethnoscience. Given the length of the stub, the article does provide a good amount of reliable resources that are not necessarily researcher-driven studies but instead surveys or widely-referenced discussions of the field, particularly D'Andrade's The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. The article does not attempt to address the Wikipedia equity gap, possibly due to the little research on the field's involvement with underrepresented minorities; there is potential for this discussion, however, given its relevance to cultural anthropology and sociology.
 * Sources
 * Cognitive Anthropology by Stephen A. Tyler
 * "Cognitive Anthropology Is a Cognitive Science"
 * "Cognitive Anthropology's Contributions to Cognitive Science: A Cultural Human Mind, a Methodological Trajectory, and Ethnography"
 * "Cognitive Anthropology Is a Cognitive Science"
 * "Cognitive Anthropology's Contributions to Cognitive Science: A Cultural Human Mind, a Methodological Trajectory, and Ethnography"

Option 5

 * French Pop Music
 * Article Evaluation
 * All content currently in the article is highly relevant, but it is missing a good amount of history of French pop, such as its influences and current status in the music sphere. The article lists the major French pop artists of each decade. However, it does not further elaborate how impactful French pop is on cultural communities and globalization, on which there is otherwise reputable literature. Further discussion on this topic could also address Wikipedia's equity gap. Despite missing some major talking points of French pop, the article does maintain neutrality throughout. There are no accompanying images, however, which could aid the content. The article has undergone minor revisions over the years, the last time being last year, however. Many of the recent revisions were removals or concision, which could explain for its short length and seemingly "missing" sections. Disregarding the links to notable artists of the genre, the article mainly uses sources from a decade ago. There has been a lot of development in French pop since then that could be covered.
 * Sources
 * Sounds French : Globalization, Cultural Communities, and Pop Music in France, 1958–1980
 * Popular music in France from chanson to techno : culture, identity, and society by Steve Cannon and Hugh Dauncey
 * Made in France: Studies in Popular Music by Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent
 * Popular music in France from chanson to techno : culture, identity, and society by Steve Cannon and Hugh Dauncey
 * Made in France: Studies in Popular Music by Gérôme Guibert and Catherine Rudent