User:BigHeadPhilippe/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
 * Decoloniality


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has a very strong foundation. With a variety of high-quality sources, nuanced concise writing, an even tone, and an expansive overviews of the topic's fundamentals, it achieves everything it needs to to cover the topic of decoloniality in a wide breadth. The only glaring problem is the article's short size. Though the information the article does possess is quite organized and well-structured, the article needs to expand more on the different facets of decoloniality. It for instance should seek to expand more the political movements that decoloniality is in conversation with and how that impacts its relationships to other institutions as the critique of western epistemology often comes to bear on the existence of western institutional norms. Furthermore, it would be great to possibly make more clear some of the writing as it tends to get a bit convoluted with jargon which might need to be separated into different articles.


 * Sources
 * Banerjee, S.B. Decolonizing Deliberative Democracy: Perspectives from Below. J Bus Ethics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-021-04971-5
 * https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd7669
 * Alexander Dunlap (2022) ‘I don’t want your progress! It tries to kill … me!’ Decolonial encounters and the anarchist critique of civilization, Globalizations, DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2073657

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Criticism of Democracy subsection: Alternatives to Democracy


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article, though quite expansive, is noted for having biased language, unverified sources, and a confusing synthesis of various citations and arguments. In the section I am interested in possibly editing and adding to, "Alternative to Democracy," there is only talk of a single theorist and the writing, though simple and straight-forward, makes it seem that the subject is very rarely discussed. Furthermore, the section seems to hold some biased language against the theorist cited and could be improved to have a better quality of general information.


 * Sources
 * Open Democracy by Helene Landemore
 * Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe by Sabrina P. Ramet
 * https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/alternative-democracy/

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Algonquin People


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article offers a lot of great information and does a good job of expanding across the various different areas of knowledge about the Algonquin nation and its history. Wikipedia has noted that the article is lacking proper citations to verify all of its claims. In addition to this, the article lacks a discussion of Algonquin political practices, meaning that despite the economy section, people who visit the article will not get a good grasp of Algonquin political life and how that impacted socioeconomic developments. In this sense, the general historical progression of the article is well thought out in terms of moving from contact with Europeans to the modern-day, but there is a neglect of topics and information before European contact and Algonquin institutions outside of the purview of Western theorists. Adding a section on political history and norms within Algonquin communities and nations would help the article offer a more expansive historical view.


 * Sources
 * https://www.pbs.org/native-america/blogs/native-voices/how-the-iroquois-great-law-of-peace-shaped-us-democracy/
 * https://www.algonquin.org/#:~:text=Government,an%20appointed%20local%20government%20administrator.
 * https://www.britannica.com/topic/Algonquin
 * https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-science-politique/article/occupancy-land-rights-and-the-algonquin-anishinaabeg/16F4A5C2C9AA7C664281A4A33127341E

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