User:JE215/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
 * Pansexuality


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article has some pretty serious tone issues, and platforms some, what at least appears to be, bi-phobic and pan-phobic rhetoric. The article also includes some pretty harmful grouping of identities that need to be expanded upon and distinguished, especially with where it identifies pansexuality and omnisexuality as 'synonyms,' but makes no distinction among the two where, in lived experience, there is a distinction. And within the article, a fairly biased take is introduced through the use of one of the sources, that being the perspective of Scholar Shiri Eisner, having a whole paragraph dedicated to that one source's perspective on how pansexuality and omnisexuality have come into use, where multiple sources would be greatly beneficial.
 * Sources
 * Many, many sources. So, so many. It's a common topic of discussion. I'm hesitant to list sources here because I would prefer to do more reading first.
 * Many, many sources. So, so many. It's a common topic of discussion. I'm hesitant to list sources here because I would prefer to do more reading first.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Romantic Orientation


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is well sourced, and has had some fruitful editing to it in the past; however, there are still areas that may see expansion. Firstly, some more well-sourced definitions of the terms would be a big benefit to this article. Inclusion of formal discussions of these romantic identities would be a big benefit to the article, as right now it really only includes formal discussion of aromanticism. Additionally, as someone mentioned on the talk page, the article would benefit greatly from the addition of queer platonic relationships in this discussion, highlighting an understated dynamic.


 * Sources
 * Sumerau, J. E., Barbee, H., Mathers, L. A. B., & Eaton, V. (2018). Exploring the experiences of heterosexual and asexual transgender people. Social Sciences, 7(9)
 * Includes a key excerpt that highlights that aromanticism is applicable to heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, or other sexual-oriented persons, which the article sorely leaves out. However, this could come under scrutiny as a passing mention, but it does emphasize this point in the work nonetheless.
 * Besides the above, there aren't any "good" sources relating to this topic that I have seen. Rather, there is a distinct lack of discussion of these romantic orientations outside of aromanticism, likely due to the fact that 1.) the discussion of romantic orientation is generally asexual-centric, and 2.) the general distinction between romantic and sexual identities is not made by many people.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Bi-curious


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is appropriately labeled as a Start-class article. There is room for expansion on the topics present, such as relations with stigmatization and the role of the term in erasure, as well as expanding the term into other contexts, such as its role in heteronormativity.


 * Sources
 * Hocker, S., & Hocker. (2010). Bisexual/Bicurious. In R. L. Jackson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of identity. Sage Publications. Credo Reference: https://proxy.library.georgetown.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/sageidentity/bisexual_bicurious/0?institutionId=702
 * This source provides a more contextualized definition of the term bicurious that the article could benefit from.
 * Regarding other sources, the inclusion of them would require bringing in contextualization and social impacts surround bicuriousness, such as discussions of the experiences of internalized biphobia of those who are bicurious. As the article is right now, there isn't much to improve upon besides expanding the range of discussion and including a better definition.

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Option 5

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