User:Digit2334/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: Missing and murdered Indigenous women
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is quite extensive, but the U.S. statistics section is quite lacking and the U.S. initiatives are not well-fleshed out.
 * The content is relevant to the topic. It details statistics about the murder and disappearance of indigenous women in the United States and Canada that makes up the MMIW epidemic in North America. The article also explains the various initiatives and activism surrounding this epidemic.
 * The article is written neutrally.
 * No, one claim is missing a citation.
 * The citations are reliable. They are laws, government complied statistics, and news articles detailing the events of indigenous women going missing or being murdered.
 * Yes, the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps; it highlight indigenous women, an extremely marginalized population.
 * Yes, the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps; it highlight indigenous women, an extremely marginalized population.

Option 2

 * Article title: Violence against women in the United States
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article has a very small section on violence against indigenous women. There is not connection to the MMIW section or an historical contextualization for the violence indigenous women face especially when most of the perpetrators are nonNative people. This deviates from the trend that most violence that women face in the U.S. is intra-racial.
 * The content is relevant to the topic.
 * The article is written neutrally.
 * Most claims have citations.
 * The citations are reliable.
 * Yes, the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps; it has a section on indigenous women, an extremely marginalized population.
 * Yes, the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps; it has a section on indigenous women, an extremely marginalized population.

Option 3

 * Article title: Native American women in Colonial America
 * The article is lacking in a more fleshed out and nuanced description of Native American women in Colonial America. There are not sections to further breakdown how the roles of Native women may have differed due to the nation and/or geographical location.
 * The content is relevant to the topic.
 * The article is written neutrally.
 * Most claims have citations.
 * The citations are reliable.
 * Yes, the article tackles one of Wikipedia's equity gaps; it has a section on indigenous women, an extremely marginalized population.