User:Bryantkale/Article evaluation

Week Three:

What I'm going to write about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_name_controversy

Questions to keep in mind: - Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

- Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? - Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? - Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? - Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? - Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? - Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? - How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? - How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Discussion Content: What is a content gap? - Wikipedians often talk about "content gaps." What do you think a content gap is, and what are some possible ways to identify them? - What are some reasons a content gap might arise? What are some ways to remedy them? - Does it matter who writes Wikipedia? - What does it mean to be "unbiased" on Wikipedia? How is that different, or similar, to your own definition of "bias"?

Week Four: - Done! Week Five - Blog posts and press releases are considered poor sources of reliable information. Why? - What are some reasons you might not want to use a company's website as the main source of information about that company? - What is the difference between a copyright violation and plagiarism? - What are some good techniques to avoid close paraphrasing and plagiarism? Choose your topic / Find your sources: - I was assigned LeAnne Howe - How I plan on contributing? I plan on adding more information about her education and more. I'm not entirely sure at the moment. Sources : http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A584 https://mikokings.wordpress.com/leanne-howe/leanne-howe-bio/

Week 6: Identify what's missing from the current form of the article. - My article is missing a lot of important information about her LeAnne Howe's education. She's missing a picture. Spouse. Children. Influences. Personal Life. Influences. SO much.

Lead section: Should be quite concise considering the average Wikipeadian visits a wikipedia site for a short amount of time.

LeAnne Howe (born April 29, 1951) is an American author and Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.[1] She previously taught American Indian Studies and English at the University of Minnesota and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Howe's work has been published in a variety of journals and anthologies. Her book Shell Shaker received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for 2002. Evidence of Red, a collection of poetry, Salt Publishing, UK 2005 won the Oklahoma Book Award in 2006. Her second novel, Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story was published in 2007 by Aunt Lute Books. Seeing Red: Pixeled Skins: American Indians and Film, Michigan State University Press 2013, an anthology of film essays on American Indians in movies is co-edited with Harvey Markowitz and Denise K. Cummings. Her latest book, a memoir titled Choctalking On Other Realities and was awarded the first the MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Language in 2015.

She is writer/co-producer of the documentary “Playing Pastime: American Indian Fast-Pitch Softball,” with three-time Emmy award winner filmmaker, James Fortier. (citation needed)

She’s currently the Eidson Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.(citation needed)

Influence: LeAnne is the screenwriter and on-camera narrator for the 90-minute PBS documentary Indian Country Diaries: Spiral of Fire that aired nationally in 2006. Part memoir, part tribal history the film takes Howe (Choctaw) to the North Carolina homelands of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to discover how their fusion of tourism, community, and cultural preservation is the key to the tribe’s health in the twenty-first century. Along the way Howe seeks to reconcile her own identity as the daughter of a Cherokee father she never knew. (citation needed)

I would like to add picture to the article, but it's not letting me. This is something that I will try to figure out after break is over. I think it's an important aspect to have on a wikipedia page.