User:Braelynn2000/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
 * Act Utilitarianism


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated as a start-class of mid-importance. I think it would be good to work on because it really only consists of an overview section and another section with links to a couple notable act utilitarian's and some other utilitarian ethical theories. I'm confident that its' list of act utilitarian's is significantly incomplete and I think I could also potentially add a section contrasting act utilitarianism with rule utilitarianism which may increase readers understanding of the topic. The last contributions to the talk page were from a very long time ago, and one of the discussions suggested that we merge act and rule utilitarianism into a single article but this was refuted in the discussion in favor of them having separate articles.


 * Sources
 * Eggleston, Ben. “Consequentialism and Respect: Two Strategies for Justifying Act Utilitarianism.” Utilitas 32.1 (2020): 1–18. Web.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Philosopher king


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated as a start-class of mid-importance. I think this would be a good article to work on because so far it only contains an overview section and a series of examples of potential philosopher kings throughout history. It also includes a criticism section but it is incredibly lacking. I think a good contribution that I could make to it would be to include political arguments for and against philosopher kings as well as information on those thinkers who contribute to this discussion. If I can present the arguments in a neutral way then I can provide the reader with a greater understanding of the topic and the discussion surrounding it. The talk page has significant discussions about other potential additions to the list of historical philosopher kings but this seems highly controversial and I'm more interested in expanding on the meaning of philosopher kings in this article.


 * Sources
 * Dragan Kuljanin. “Why Not a Philosopher King? and Other Objections to Epistocracy.” Phenomenology and mind 16 (2019): n. pag. Web.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Ethics commission


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is rated as a stub-class of mid-importance. This article seems extremely lacking to me, with only one sentence explaining what an ethics commission is and then a bunch of other links to specific state ethics commissions. Surely, there is more to be said about ethics commissions. I want to add to this article a greater explanation of what ethics commissions do, the differences between bioethics commissions and regular ethics commissions, and justifications for and against the establishment of ethics commissions. I don't believe anyone has touched the talk page yet and thus I am confident in my desired contributions. Though I will need a lot of good sources for such a task, and this does seem like it will be a challenge.


 * Sources
 * Rosenson, Beth A. “Against Their Apparent Self-Interest: The Authorization of Independent State Legislative Ethics Commissions, 1973-96.” State politics & policy quarterly 3.1 (2003): 42–65. Web.

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