User:Connor.Sprouse/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

 * Bureau for the Repression of Communist Activities
 * Article Evaluation
 * The Article is basically just a lead so in my opinion it is begging for an overhaul to the page. There isn't much substance to the page which gives the editor a lot of leeway in regards to research and fact finding when attempting to edit the page.
 * The Article is basically just a lead so in my opinion it is begging for an overhaul to the page. There isn't much substance to the page which gives the editor a lot of leeway in regards to research and fact finding when attempting to edit the page.


 * Sources
 * https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB341/BayOfPigsHistory_Vol3.pdf starting at page 7

Option 2

 * Cuba–Russia relations
 * Article Evaluation
 * The Article is focused more on relations after the fall of the Soviet Union, but even so, the article does fall short in detailing relations, considering there are 3 decades worth of diplomatic relations to pull from. There a couple dead links in the references and external links portion of the Article so it could get cleaned up a little in that aspect as well. Also something I found strange was one of the sources had a report on public opinion and Obama was more liked than Vladimir Putin despite extensive Russian-Cuban relations and I believe that could be expanded on more
 * The Article is focused more on relations after the fall of the Soviet Union, but even so, the article does fall short in detailing relations, considering there are 3 decades worth of diplomatic relations to pull from. There a couple dead links in the references and external links portion of the Article so it could get cleaned up a little in that aspect as well. Also something I found strange was one of the sources had a report on public opinion and Obama was more liked than Vladimir Putin despite extensive Russian-Cuban relations and I believe that could be expanded on more


 * Sources
 * https://www.norc.org/PDFs/Survey%20of%20Cuban%20Opinion/Cuba%20Topline_FINAL.pdf

Option 3

 * Committees for the Defense of the Revolution
 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a good Article to edit because it has extensive scholarship on it to draw from and a broad range of ideas to expand on. The Article only lightly touches on the services the Committees do and the controversies in which it was a part of.
 * This is a good Article to edit because it has extensive scholarship on it to draw from and a broad range of ideas to expand on. The Article only lightly touches on the services the Committees do and the controversies in which it was a part of.


 * Sources
 * https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/cuba/cdr.htm
 * https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2013/11/07/CUB103443.FE.pdf
 * https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fidels-revolutionary-coll_b_1921751

Option 4

 * Afro-Cubans
 * Article Evaluation
 * Out of all the articles i chose, this is probably the most lengthy and extensive one, but that's because it covers an incredibly broad range of topics within it. Essentially a sub-culture in Cuba combining African and Cuban practices, this article covers a variety of topics, all sourced in the reference section and organized in a way that breaks up the Afro-Cuban culture into the many facets of music, dance, beliefs, and politics associated with the group. Something that could be added in here that I think the seminar will be focusing on is the idea of "anti-racism" and Latin American Exceptionalism.
 * Out of all the articles i chose, this is probably the most lengthy and extensive one, but that's because it covers an incredibly broad range of topics within it. Essentially a sub-culture in Cuba combining African and Cuban practices, this article covers a variety of topics, all sourced in the reference section and organized in a way that breaks up the Afro-Cuban culture into the many facets of music, dance, beliefs, and politics associated with the group. Something that could be added in here that I think the seminar will be focusing on is the idea of "anti-racism" and Latin American Exceptionalism.


 * Sources
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469626734_benson
 * https://www.aaihs.org/rhetoric-and-reality-during-cubas-antiracism-campaign/

Option 5

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 * Article Evaluation
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