User:Auggie456/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.


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Communism in Russia


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is exceedingly relevant to the course. While the it is written neutrally, many claims are uncited. The cited sources are reliable but very basic; many are encyclopedia entries. The article does not tackle any equity gaps. The conversation Talk page notes that the article is extremely underwritten, and a majority of the contributions were written by a single author.


 * Sources
 * Applebaum, Anne. Gulag : a History. First ed., Doubleday, 2003.
 * Riga, Liliana. The Bolsheviks and the Russian Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
 * Daniels, Robert V. The Rise and Fall of Communism in Russia. Yale University Press, 2008.
 * David Wedgwood Benn. “Post-Communism and the Russian Public.” International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), vol. 89, no. 1, 2013, pp. 175–179.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Barracks communism


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is relevant to the course, although it may be insufficiently notable. It is written neutrally, and all of the claims are cited with reliable sources (some are in Russian, so I cannot verify). However, the bulk of the article is quotation that is not cited. The article does not address any equity gaps. The Talk page contains commentary on the subject, and a complaint about the article's quality.


 * Sources
 * Vodolazov, G. G. “Alternatives in History and History of Alternatives (N. Bukharin against ‘Barrack Communism.’” Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniia, no. 11, 2014, pp. 129–139.
 * https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/heroes-exile/ch13.htm

Option 3

 * Article title
 * International Workingmen's Association


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is deeply relevant to the course. While there is no explicit bias, the language of the article is too colorful and expressive for an encyclopedia page. Additionally, many claims (whole paragraphs!) lack citations. The article does not address equity gaps. The Talk page includes pertinent discussion of the subject.


 * Sources
 * Musto, Marcello. Workers Unite. 1st ed., Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2014.
 * McClellan, Woodford. Revolutionary Exiles : The Russians in the First International and the Paris Commune, Taylor & Francis Group, 1979. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/miami/detail.action?docID=235349.
 * International Workingmen's Association . General Council, and Institut marksizma-leninizma. The General Council of the First International ; Minutes. Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1962.
 * Borkenau, Franz. World Communism ; a History of the Communist International. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1939.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Communist symbolism


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is exceedingly relevant to the course. While there is no explicit bias, much of the language is too general, and nearly all of the claims lack citations. The article does not address equity gaps. Some of the Talk page includes suitable discussion, but also includes extensive and uncivil argument. Overall, the article lacks key information and needs a lot of work


 * Sources
 * Svilicic, Niksa, and Maldini, Pero. “Visual Persuasion and Politics: Ideology and Symbols of the Totalitarian Regimes' - Case Study: Hammer and Sickle.” Collegium Antropologicum, vol. 37, no. 2, 2013, pp. 569–582.
 * Gill, Graeme J. Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Anti-communism


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is relevant to the course. While there is no explicit bias in actual content, the article provides much more detail in some sections rather than others. There is a severe lack of citations, especially in its the underwritten portions. The article does not tackle any equity gaps. The Talk page is long and contains both pertinent suggestions and arguments - some say the article is so bad it should be nominated for deletion.


 * Sources
 * Fischer, Nick, and Ebooks Corporation. Spider Web : the Birth of American Anticommunism. University of Illinois Press, 2016.
 * McNamara, Patrick. A Catholic Cold War Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., and the Politics of American Anticommunism. 1st ed., Fordham University Press, 2005.
 * Lieberman, Robbie, and Clarence Lang. Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement : "Another Side of the Story". First ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
 * Ruotsila, Markku. British and American Anticommunism before the Cold War. Frank Cass, 2001.
 * Jaymie Patricia Heilman. “YELLOWS AGAINST REDS: Campesino Anticommunism in 1960s Ayacucho, Peru.” Latin American Research Review, vol. 50, no. 2, 2015, pp. 154–175.