User:Helyeah27/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
 * Meridian (novel)


 * Article Evaluation
 * The lead section of the article does its job of introducing the text and giving an overview of the rest of the article. The content that is provided is accurate and relevant, however there are gaps. The plot summary section takes an over 200 page novel and condenses it down to three  short paragraphs.  For comparison, I looked up Walker's novel The Color Purple and its plot summary was well over triple that amount.  The "Themes and Critiques" section touches on some of the social context of the novel, but lacks true details describing factual events or organizations related to it.  It also touches upon the novel's portrayal of women, but again lacks the development by simply stating "strong female role models" with just a brief description of the main character and little else.  Other aspects of the article are fine--the tone and balance, the sources and references, and the organization and writing quality.  It's simply the lack of information that gave me pause, as can be seen also by the lack of images and media.  Other than one image of the cover, there is nothing else.  The Talk page is in a similar situation.  There are only two edits, a decade apart, the most recent from over five years ago.  Overall, I am not unhappy with anything that is currently there.  I just think there could be more content on the text itself and on the historical context.


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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Northern Student Movement


 * Article Evaluation
 * There are several grammatical errors in the article. There also seem to be gaps in the timeline of the movement.


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Option 3

 * Article title
 * William L. Strickland


 * Article Evaluation
 * There is absolutely nothing here. This option would mean creating an article, not just editing a pre-existing one.  Direct link to this article from the article on the Northern Student Movement stating Strickland became executive director in 1963, and yet not even that information is in this article.


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