User:Jaidajeter/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 - Commercial laundries in 20th century america/Laundries

 * Article title - "Laundry Workers Industrial Union"
 * Article Evaluation -
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? yes to a degree
 * Is it written neutrally? yes kind of
 * Does each claim have a citation? no
 * Are the citations reliable? no a lot are missing or links are missing
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? yes
 * Sources
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Option 2 - Tex-son strike / International Ladies Garment Workers Union ILGWU

 * Article title - "International Ladies Garment Workers Union"
 * Article Evaluation-
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? yes seems like its unorganized and missing information
 * Is it written neutrally? yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? no
 * Are the citations reliable? no a lot are missing or links are missing
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? yes to a degree
 * Sources
 * -"An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed: Mexicana and Anglo Women Garment Workers Against Tex-Son, 1959–1963" - Lori A. Flores
 * -Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930–2000 Michelle Haberland
 * -Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930–2000 Michelle Haberland

Article title - "Maternalism"

 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes to a degree, not much info to go off of, some of the subtitles and sections are stronger than others
 * Is it written neutrally? yes
 * Does each claim have a citation? most do/some do not
 * Are the citations reliable? some are, there are a few like the encyclopedias that seem off.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? it seems like it's trying to but not quite pretty neutral i'd say
 * Sources -
 * -"Working on the Domestic Frontier" Margaret Jacobs published in 2007
 * -"Domesticating Colonizers" Victoria Haskins
 * -"San Francisco’s Pioneer Mother Monument: Maternalism, Racial Order, and the Politics of Memorialization, 1907–1915" - Brenda D Frink
 * -"Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States" by Susan Porter Benson pub. in 2007
 * -"Maternalism as a Paradigm." Journal of Women's History 5, no. 2 (1993): 95-95. doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0143.
 * -"San Francisco’s Pioneer Mother Monument: Maternalism, Racial Order, and the Politics of Memorialization, 1907–1915" - Brenda D Frink
 * -"Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States" by Susan Porter Benson pub. in 2007
 * -"Maternalism as a Paradigm." Journal of Women's History 5, no. 2 (1993): 95-95. doi:10.1353/jowh.2010.0143.