User:Busk12/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

 * Tokyo dialect
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's content is relevant to the topic.
 * The article is written neutrally.
 * No claims have any citations. There are a small amount of references
 * The two references seem reliable for their time but are most likely out of date; at the very least, the reference to a website is out of date.
 * This article doesn't really tackle an equity gap.
 * There are some small discussions in the Talk section about the incorrect use of [ʃ] as well a challenging the idea of the Tokyo dialect, but nothing has been introduced since 2013.
 * Essentially, I would work towards filling out more information about the Tokyo dialect's characteristics as well as how it relates to other regions and dialects in Japan. I would also be looking at the relation between Tokyo dialect and the "Standard Japanese", because that seems to be an important issue; some people say that Tokyo dialect is either non-existent, others say that it isn't the Standard Japanese (標準語) but exists, and others say that it's the upper-class variant - from my understanding - that is Standard Japanese. (山の手言葉)
 * Sources
 * Sources
 * Sources


 * An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
 * Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics
 * "Japanese Dialects and General Linguistics"
 * "Dialect Matters: L2 Speakers' Beliefs and Perceptions About Japanese Dialect" (This one might not be as relevant)
 * "Standardization and Paradoxical Highlighting of Linguistic Diversity in Japan"

Notes


 * Could possibly do Japanese dialects instead, which is in a similar state.

Option 2

 * Internet in Japan
 * Article Evaluation
 * The content written is relevant to the topic.
 * The content has a neutral tone.
 * The organization and information in the article is messy.
 * Most claims have citations, but there are a few claims where the citation isn't entirely clear.
 * Citations seem to come from reliable sources.
 * There are content gaps in the article, as it mainly focuses on the technical history and laws surrounding the internet, and doesn't really go into the people's history with Japanese internet as well as how it affects their lives.
 * This article doesn't really cover an equity gap.
 * In the talk pages, there is a request for more date information, more citations, a complete reorganization of the article that adds useful information. It seems that there have been changes since the last talk, which are not reflected, so I don't know how accurate these requests and complaints are anymore.
 * Essentially I would work towards the requests in the talk page, as well as giving more focus on the effects and use of internet in Japan instead of just technical language and quantitative descriptions.
 * Essentially I would work towards the requests in the talk page, as well as giving more focus on the effects and use of internet in Japan instead of just technical language and quantitative descriptions.


 * Sources
 * Media, Technology, and Social Practice: The Shaping of the Internet in Korea and Japan
 * "Skipping breakfast, poor sleep quality, and Internet usage and their relation with unhappiness in Japanese adolescents"
 * "Xenophobia in Action: Ultranationalism, Hate Speech, and the Internet in Japan"
 * “Prevalence of Internet Addiction in Japan: Comparison of Two Cross‐sectional Surveys”
 * "The association of suicide-related Twitter use with suicidal behaviour: A cross-sectional study of young internet users in Japan"
 * "Virtual Ethnography: Using the Internet to Study Gay Culture in Japan" (Potential ways of how the internet is used, want to find more articles like this)

Notes


 * I feel like I would need to find some more "positive effect" or neutral sources. It's not that these sources are biased or that I would want to paint internet in Japan a certain way, I just feel like focusing on problems related to the internet might give a biased/unfair perspective on the issue. However, at this point i'm just searching along the lines of "japan internet" and these are my results.

Option 3

 * Japanese dialects
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article's content is relevant to the topic.
 * This article is written mostly neutrally, but some parts of it seem to be more opinion than reporting facts.
 * Not every claim is clearly backed up by a citation.
 * The citations are reliable, but they are very sparse.
 * This article tackles representation of a less-commonly spoken language, so it could be said to cover an equity gaps in that sense.
 * There is plenty of discussion on the topic, but the last and most notable discussion on the Talk page was in 2013. This discussed Tokyo dialect as the standard dialect, but it seems to be just the discusser's personal knowledge and there's no citations. One of the sources I list below actually directly addresses this issue, so I would like to include information from that to hopefully clear up this issue.
 * There is plenty of discussion on the topic, but the last and most notable discussion on the Talk page was in 2013. This discussed Tokyo dialect as the standard dialect, but it seems to be just the discusser's personal knowledge and there's no citations. One of the sources I list below actually directly addresses this issue, so I would like to include information from that to hopefully clear up this issue.


 * Sources
 * An Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
 * Routledge Handbook of Japanese Sociolinguistics
 * "Japanese Dialects and General Linguistics"
 * "Dialect Matters: L2 Speakers' Beliefs and Perceptions About Japanese Dialect"
 * "Standardization and Paradoxical Highlighting of Linguistic Diversity in Japan"


 * Notes

Option 4

 * Fushūgaku
 * Article Evaluation
 * The content is relative to the topic.
 * The article is not written neutrally, with a clearly biased tone.
 * Many citations are missing.
 * Citations are not from a reliable source.
 * This article talks about Fushūgaku as non-attendence of school, but I'm not sure Fushūgaku is the right equivalent for "School Refusal." I specifically want to write about School Refusal in Japan because I can't seem to find a wikipedia on the issue, so I'm not sure whether I should try to make a new article or develop this one, and maybe change the title to "School Refusal in Japan (Futōkō)" so that it's more accessible.
 * This article could help represent those who refuse or don't follow the standard educational path provided by the government.
 * On the Talk page, there is only one comment, but I am not sure what they are saying. It seems like a lazy addition of a source in the article.
 * On the Talk page, there is only one comment, but I am not sure what they are saying. It seems like a lazy addition of a source in the article.


 * Sources
 * "Current state of refusal to attend school in Japan"
 * "A Narrative Approach to the Futoko (School Non-Attendance/School Refusal) Problem in Japan"
 * "Student Discourse on Tokokyohi (School Phobia/Refusal) in Japan: Burnout or empowerment?"
 * "School Refusal Behavior in Students with Intellectual Disabilities and Comorbid Disorders in Japan: A Brief Review"
 * "Sleep education in primary school prevents future school refusal behavior"
 * I could also potentially talk about the related issue of Hikikomori? But that might be putting my own connections into the article so I'm not sure.
 * Hikikomori: Adolescence without End
 * "Hikikomori"

Option 5

 * Hatsumōde
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article's content is relevant to the topic.
 * This article is written neutrally.
 * There are multiple claims missing citations.
 * The citations aren't particularly reliable. For example, a blog is cited.
 * This article doesn't really cover an equity gap as far as I understand.
 * There are no discussions on the Talk page.
 * This article only discusses how this is carried out, but doesn't talk about anything else. I would need to rewrite or add citations to the description of the practice wherever citations are missing. I would then need to add other sections to the article, like the history of the practice and its significance. I don't know how extensive material there is for this, however.
 * This article only discusses how this is carried out, but doesn't talk about anything else. I would need to rewrite or add citations to the description of the practice wherever citations are missing. I would then need to add other sections to the article, like the history of the practice and its significance. I don't know how extensive material there is for this, however.