User:Gdelc03111/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
 * Gender neutrality in Spanish


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article gives a good starting point to a much more lengthy discussion of gender is Spanish language. It begins by discussing the way that gender works in Spanish and the importance that takes in contemporary political discussion.
 * However, as many comments point out, there is many components of this article that are false, such as the majority of the "Social Aspect" section. It also focuses on both Spanish and Portuguese, which warrants separate discussions. It has lots of room for improvement in cleaning up the article and expanding on it.


 * Sources
 * Ramos, María Patricia Martínez. "Lenguaje de género:¿ necesidad o necedad?." Entretextos 2007 (2015): 5316.
 * Bosque, Ignacio (2012). Sexismo lingüístico y visibilidad de la mujer. España: Real Academia de la Lengua Española

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Femicide in Latin America


 * Article Evaluation
 * This topic does not have an article on its own despite the complexity of this issue in Latin America. I would like to expand on the Latin American section in the "Femicide" and bring it to an article on its own. There is lots to be said on this issue
 * from both a historical and political perspective. I would talk about the history of femicide in Latin America, how it affects certain countries, efforts being taken to address femicide, and statistics on femicide.


 * Sources
 * "La Violencia Femenicida En Mexico, Aproximaciones y Tendencias 1985-2016." Dec. 2017, www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/293666/violenciaFeminicidaMx_07dic_web.pdf.
 * Sandin, Linnea. “Femicides in Mexico: Impunity and Protests.” Femicides in Mexico: Impunity and Protests | Center for Strategic and International Studies. Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 19, 2020. https://www.csis.org/analysis/femicides-mexico-impunity-and-protests.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Voting gender gap in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is a good foundation for an article that could dive deep into the specifics of the Voting Gender Gap in the U.S. It has an overall good structure, concise history on the subject, and a helpful chart that details statistics on the gender gap. One way to expand on this article is to present congressional races and the voting gender gap within each of these races. Lastly, the whole lead section could use a rewrite as the definition is misinterpreted and the second part has very confusing sentence structure. Overall, the article has lots of potential for growth.


 * Sources
 * Igielnik, Ruth. “Men and Women in the U.S. Continue to Differ in Voter Turnout Rate, Party Identification.” Pew Research Center. Pew Research Center, September 2, 2020. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/18/men-and-women-in-the-u-s-continue-to-differ-in-voter-turnout-rate-party-identification/.
 * Studlar, Donley T., Ian McAllister, and Bernadette C. Hayes. “Explaining the Gender Gap in Voting: A Cross-National Analysis.” Social Science Quarterly 79, no. 4 (1998): 779–98. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42863847.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Marisela Escobedo Ortiz


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article provides basic information about Escobedo, who was known as an activist following the death of her daughter. It describes mentions of her in different notable works and a couple paragraphs of her efforts as an activist. They do not go into any significant detail about the death of her daughter and the death of Marisela Escobedo herself. It also fails to place her death in the greater context of femicides in Mexico. It could be expanded by going into further detail about her life and her efforts to seek justice for her daughter.


 * Sources
 * Vargas Valdés, Jesús. "Recordando a Marisela Escobedo." UEHS-La fragua de los tiempos (2011).
 * Calderón, Landy Vianey Portillo, and Gabriela Gutiérrez Antúnez. "Memorias del duelo y los monumentos del dolor: el feminicidio en Chihuahua, México." Tenso Diagonal 08 (2019): 138-153.