User:FindingMothman/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:Oregon Trail
 * Article Evaluation:Overall, the article is good, but it could be better. I can see that the article makes an attempt to tackle the equity gaps in the case of Women on the Overland Trail, however, the section is very brief and skips over a lot of the challenges and experiences women had during their journey West. While the article seems to be written neutrally and uses reliable citations, it comes across as confusing as information is cited but not explained. Based on what I have seen on the article's Talk Page, other contributors have not added to the section on women.
 * Sources:Faragher, John Mack. Women and Men on the Overland Trail. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.:McLynn, Frank. Wagons West: The Epic Story of America’s Overland Trails. 1st American ed. New York: Grove Press, 2002.

Option 2

 * Article title:Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster
 * Article Evaluation:This article seems good, however there is an alert on the top of the page stating that the article may give undue weight to certain ideas, events, or controversies. It also states that this article needs additional citations for verification and that it needs citations from reliable sources. After looking at the article's Talk Page, other contributors have discussed the lack of in-article references. Another contributor even said that there is a lack of reliable citations and statistics such as death counts are so low that they likely came from old and outdated sources such as Soviet propaganda. Overall, it appears that this article is in need of significant work.
 * Sources:Kuchinskaya, Olga. The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge About Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014.:Petryna, Adriana. Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Option 3

 * Article title:Culture of Domesticity
 * Article Evaluation:This article seems to be good, but I can see in the Talk Page that there has been back and forth conversations between contributors about needing information to be reworked or backed up better. This topic does tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps, and there has been a lot of discussion about this topic, especially about gender roles, since Barbara Welters article 57 years ago. Overall, the article seems to be written from a neutral point of view, but as mentioned before, the contributors have discussed the need for information that is not an interpretation of one source but is instead widely accepted information.
 * Sources:Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860.” American Quarterly 18, no. 2 (1966).:Looking for others as this is a topic I am interested in.

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