User:Benohara/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
 * Sociology of immigration
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is rated stub-class. It uses sources from a handful of authors, and does not explore the wide range of sociological theories and literature on this subject. It also focuses heavily on the US and does not account for other countries (I know this because I took a course in Sociology of Migration this past semester).
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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Goombah


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is not rated; the nature of the subject (an Italian-American word) means that it probably cannot become a long article. However, the article needs more sourcing and its tone should be improved. It excessively and unfairly emphasizes the "criminal" connotations of the word goombah.


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Option 3

 * Article title
 * African emigrants to Italy


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is start-class rated. It has very short descriptions of the nationalities of the African immigrants in Italy. It also should provide a much more detailed description of the history and current state of African emigration to Italy.


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Option 4

 * Article title
 * Christ Stopped at Eboli


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is stub-class rated. It gives an inadequate summary of the plot of the book, and contains many uncited generalizations about the town and region in which the book's events take place. It also does not describe the reception the book received after its release, or its larger legacy in Italian modern literature.


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Option 5

 * Article title
 * I'm Not Scared (novel)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Stub-class article about a novel written by Italian author Niccolo Ammaniti. The plot summary needs to be expanded greatly to encompass all the events in the story. There should be historical background about the context of the book, which takes place in 1970s Italy. In that era there were many high-profile kidnappings of famous people and their children, and the novel focuses on a fictional kidnapping. This context should be explained in the article.


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