User:Cearly2/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.


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Consumer movement / Consumer activism


 * Article Evaluation
 * I think that this article is missing nuance when it comes to the involvement of women in the consumer movement of the 1930s. The 1930s consumer movement is mentioned but is not given much detail.I have not done my research yet, but just based on Jacobs's reading and skimming Cohen's book, I think there's a lot to talk about that this article lacks. However, "consumer movement" and "consumer activism" almost seem to be used interchangeably. Most of the things I would like to add could be just as easily added to the "consumer activism" page, so I am not entirely sure which one to add to. All of my following notes will be about the "Consumer movement" page.
 * Could also talk about Black consumer activism, mentioned in Cohen's book, but I'd have to do more research on it.
 * The "By region" section is lacking content. There is about one paragraph about the United States, and it is not very detailed. It is also not cited.
 * Lead does not have citations.
 * Sources are reputable, but it might be nice to have a contemporary/primary source to use.
 * The organization is strange. There is a heading for "By region," but only the U.S. is under it. Sections written about Africa and India appear later in the article, under the heading "Overview." I think it would make more sense to group all of the content about different countries together under the "By region" heading.
 * There has not been talk on the talk page since April 2017, but it does seem to be edited frequently (20 edits since June). Its most recent edit was a revision by a bot of some possible vandalism. Most of the edits seem to be minor grammatical changes, nothing too substantial.


 * Sources
 * "A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America" by Lizabeth Cohen

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Office of Price Administration


 * Article Evaluation
 * I would like to expand on the section "African Americans and the OPA" within this article. Just by skimming the section of Cohen's section "African Americans Claim Consumer Citizenship" in the text's second chapter, I can tell that there is more nuance to this topic than Black Americans simply supporting OPA. In the early 1940s, there was "blant inequity in the... enforcement of OPA regulations," which led to lashing-out and "rebellions." There was more a fight for recognition and equity within OPA that the article current suggests.
 * "Women and the OPA" only uses one source (Jacobs's article from our class). I think there could be some expansion here, using some other sources.
 * The "History" section mainly focuses on the OPA's dissolution. I think it could benefit from a section within the "History" heading, maybe called "Functions" or "Policies" that could discuss the policies it instituted in more specifics, and how those policies were received by the public.


 * Sources
 * "A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America" by Lizabeth Cohen

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Consumer


 * Article Evaluation
 * Would like to talk about the emergence of citizen-consumers in the 1930s.
 * Lead does not have citations.


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