User:Blakemurray7/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
 * Propaganda


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the Articles content relevant to the topic?
 * This article's content relating to propaganda is very much so on topic and uses a lot of big nipples stretched across different time periods and regions in order to make example of such diversity. This page does an especially good job of making accurate content by having a broad yet educational approach towards the beginning of the article and then getting more specific with certain types of propaganda as the article move down towards eventually leading into well-known propaganda pieces from different influential periods.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * This article is written neutrally as the introductory statement simply defining the definition does an extremely good job of making sure it simply educates and does not persuade.  As it moves down the article it does touch on two topics that of course revolve around certain political ideologies and expose the uses of their propaganda during such time periods.  So while these examples were produced and used with an article there was never a clear indication of trying to idealize one side of the piece more than the other.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Each claim does have a citation and I believe everyone has at least more than one.  the citations work and are also given to sub-points or other definitions that are not previously stated on the article itself.  This is personally something that I really enjoy as I always want to know more about the topic at hand so the premise of linking verbiage that I am unfamiliar with is something that I find enjoyable.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * The citations are reliable as a large majority of them are either from historical pieces throughout time or examples from different types of previous literature pieces or teachings that were extracted and used as Focus points for the article.
 * Does the article tackle on of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * It doesn't necessarily cover Equity gaps in terms of the traditional historically underrepresented person but it does touch on certain groups of individuals that were marginalized because of the government's and the propaganda that followed those in office at the time.  example is the anti-semitic propaganda linked In the later part of the article.
 * Check out the article Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the articles talk page as well.
 * There was some discussion talk page farang to turn placement of Articles and headings but there was one mention of a source that links to a quote on another Wikipedia page and not the actual book itself.  Even though the quote was from the person the link was trying to provide it did not bring the reader to the source material and instead to another page.


 * Sources
 * Propaganda
 * https://web-s-ebscohost-com.collegeofidaho.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=b5457187-27c7-4044-91f0-efe95f8fdfef%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=152052932&db=a9h
 * https://web-s-ebscohost-com.collegeofidaho.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=74afa254-b74e-4a3d-a3d4-fb5edaff2c22%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=152725225&db=a9h
 * https://web-s-ebscohost-com.collegeofidaho.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=b5457187-27c7-4044-91f0-efe95f8fdfef%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=153419794&db=a9h

Option 2

 * Article title
 * History of Communication


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the Articles content relevant to the topic?
 * All the articles in this content are perfectly relevant to the topic and honestly do a really good job of encompassing not just a large amount of time, but a lot of different types of communication and where they come from all around the world. Everything that I read had to do in some way shape or form with the history of communication.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * It is written neutrally and does a good job of staying neutral as it is primarily trying to inform the reader about the history and past of how communicative abilities have evolved throughout the ages.  I saw no specific points about other possible communication ideologies as there wasn't very much ground to go off of certain opinions regarding the history of communication as a whole.  At least what I've encountered with the article.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * It does a very good job of having appropriate citations where needed and there are numerous hyperlinks to different time periods of communication. Along with this it also includes the specific examples that were related to the Articles content throughout the entire page.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * The citations are reliable as a numerous number of them link back to secondary sources or other historical documents that have been validated.  Along with that there are numerous citations of the various pieces of information to reduce the amount of negligent information presented to the article.
 * Does the article tackle on of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * I saw nothing relating to Wikipedia’s equity gaps as this article was relating purely to the history of communication not towards any certain ideology or group thereof. With that fact there is nothing to accurately or just before certainly represent other than the sources that the information was being considered from.  Now I'm in that mind there is a mixed representation of sources from Anglo-Saxon Americans to foreign authors but still a large majority of the cited sources remain to be white historians.
 * Check out the article Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the articles talk page as well.
 * This talk page is by far the most confusing and elaborate as there were so many different points that went on throughout the article that people commented on it as it was hard to gauge what was being discussed.  There was a huge discussion about how the presence of intelligence tends to end the historical context of communication and why understanding the premise of why the discussion started felt like I was sitting in a TED talk rather than trying to understand whether it should be edited or not.


 * Sources
 * History of communication
 * https://collegeofidaho.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1085619669?queryString=%22history%20of%20communication%22&clusterResults=true&stickyFacetsChecked=true&groupVariantRecords=false
 * https://collegeofidaho.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1137144206?queryString=%22history%20of%20communication%22&clusterResults=true&stickyFacetsChecked=true&groupVariantRecords=false
 * https://collegeofidaho.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/846492972?queryString=%22history%20of%20communication%22&clusterResults=true&stickyFacetsChecked=true&groupVariantRecords=false

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Hashtag


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the Articles content relevant to the topic?
 * The Articles content is indeed relevant to the topic however I feel like there could have been a little bit more specific examples and terms of more prominent secondary sources presented.  well all the content is factual and does provide an educational basis it feels more like a book report on a topic rather than a Wikipedia article.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * It is written neutrally as there are no arguments or mindsets presented within the writing that tends to shift the topic towards one area more than another.  While it does seem somewhat informal and the way that the topic is presented as there is not that much information to be presented it does do a good job of trying to remain as neutral as possible.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Each claim has a proper source and citation that follows although this topic does relate to communication I felt as if it needed to be presented due to its recent nature in representing different groups and topics of conversation.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Billy the citations are reliable enough to prevent the information presented at hand because there is not much history tied to the idea of hashtag rather the  idea of how it's used as a tool.  Therefore in the citations might be not as formal or academic as others might be the general sense yet is still presents a notable basis to be used in the education science.
 * Does the article tackle on of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * This article actually does exactly what I was expecting it to do and represents the equity caps that Wikipedia has defined which are under-represented or misrepresented peoples in subjects.  we can see this in the #blm and #metoo movements that were sourced in the article itself. This section of the article honestly my opinion was one of the most influential and important as no other hashtag has had such a lasting impact on me as those have. To add Merit to that, those hashtags are still referenced today and have been used in discussions and legal proceedings all around the world.
 * Check out the article Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the articles talk page as well.
 * As I predicted, the talk page is filled with a mix of opinions of people either trying to understand the true birds of the hashtag in terms of a chronological date and others trying to identify a more solidified idea of where it's presently used in today's day and age.


 * Sources
 * Hashtag
 * https://web-p-ebscohost-com.collegeofidaho.idm.oclc.org/ehost/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=47484d6c-ba56-4582-ab1a-0a0fca286da5%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=152514365&db=a9h
 * https://collegeofidaho.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1103538259?queryString=hashtag&clusterResults=true&stickyFacetsChecked=true&groupVariantRecords=false
 * https://collegeofidaho.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/1028552265?queryString=hashtag&clusterResults=true&stickyFacetsChecked=true&groupVariantRecords=false

Option 4

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Option 5

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