User:Historian1109/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
 * Ethel Kennedy


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is well organized and provides detailed information on her life during her marriage to Robert Kennedy, but lacks information following his passing. Additionally, the lead section of the article leaves a lot of room for improvement. I think that the article needs to be updated, especially since Ethel Kennedy was in the news in the past few years. Lastly, there are a few sources on the article that are from random websites that I believe could be replaced with peer reviewed journals.


 * Sources
 * Encyclopedia of the Kennedys: The People and Events That Shaped America, 2012, Vol.2, p.406-407
 * Interviews and news articles about the release of Sirhan Sirhan

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Johnson Products Company


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article lacks an in depth information on the company. This company created a line of advertisements and saw the importance of African American people as consumers, and that is not relevant at all in the article. The article provides a summary on the company, but nothing more.


 * Sources
 * Consumerism and the Construction of Black Female Identity in Twentieth-Century America by Robert E. Weems Jr.
 * Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul by Tanisha C. Ford
 * Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America by Ayana D. Byrd and Lori L. Tharps.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Virginia Slims


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very informative but could provide more images to show the advertisement campaigns done by the company to promote female consumerism. Additionally, the source could discuss how the company created ads to sell to African American consumers as well. Lastly, the article needs better sourcing to show the influence that marketing had, specifically during the counterculture movement in the 1960s.


 * Sources
 * Exporting an Inherently Harmful Product: The Marketing of Virginia Slims Cigarettes in the United States, Japan, and Korea
 * Why is Virginia Slim? Women and Cigarette Advertising

Option 4

 * Article title
 * American Women in World War 1
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is informative, but could use improvement. First, the article lacks diversity and could present sources from women that were not White and how they were affected by the war. Additionally, the article could go more in depth on women's changing lives at home. Now that they were in the work force, how did that affect their roles as wives and mothers and how did that influence their right to vote. There also could include a section on propaganda that featured women in the workforce.


 * Sources
 * "New York State Women's Suffrage Party"
 * The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I