User:KABerglund/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
 * Settler Colonialism in Canada

https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/article/10.1007/s12134-019-00670-3 https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/full/10.1080/14775700.2016.1267311
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Yes it is.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * For the most part, yes - although there are some areas that could be strengthened.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * No, and there is space to add many more.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * For the most part, there are other citations that could be added. Links are active and work.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Yes! colonialism within Canada - Gendered consequences of settler colonialism in Canada could be added. Much more to add around gender and the Indian Act, as well as Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls and Indigenous Resistance
 * Sources
 * https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1470140972428/1534526770441 https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_and_murdered_Indigenous_women#Canadian_National_Inquiry_into_Missing_and_Murdered_Indigenous_Women_and_Girls

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears

Option 2

 * Article title: United Nations Commission on the Status of Women
 * Article Evaluation: Class C article, High importance.
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * It's a UN body specifically related to Women, and Gendered Inequality.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * For the most part, yes - although there are some areas that could be strengthened.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * No, and there is space to add many more.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * For the most part, there are other citiations that could be added.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Yes! Women's Representation in global leadership/politics
 * Sources
 * General Background on the CSW.
 * https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/article/257345
 * The Youth for Women's rights caucus would be valuable to add:
 * https://go-gale-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/ps/i.do?p=ITBC&u=uvictoria&id=GALE|A134381820&v=2.1&it=r&sid=summon
 * The Bejing Declaration and Gender Mainstreaming:
 * https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/article/461784
 * https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/article/461784

Option 3
Remembering Vancouver's disappeared women: settler colonialism and the difficulty of inheritance by Amber Dean (1975)
 * Article title Downtown Eastside
 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Yes it is, although there could be more added around gender/sexuality in places.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Yes, although some of the language around sex work and substance use could be more neutralized
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * More citations could be added, and more content around the overdose crisis.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Yes they are. They are active links and seem reputable.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Yes, the unhoused population, substance users, the mentally ill etc. There could be muhc more added here about social activism led by marginalized groups (women, indigenous peoples)
 * Sources
 * Aboriginal Health in the DTES: https://www-deslibris-ca.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/ID/10095636
 * Gentrification and consumption: https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2013.867669
 * Aboriginal Health in the DTES: https://www-deslibris-ca.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/ID/10095636
 * Gentrification and consumption: https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2013.867669

Indigenous Women's survival: https://www-deslibris-ca.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/ID/10100191

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Equality Now


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Yes it is, it is about the organizations' commitment to the human rights of women and girls world wide.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Yes, for the most part
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * some do, and some may need further citations.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * A lot of sources come from the equality now page itself, so third party citations may also be useful.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Yes, human rights of women and girls that include specific sex-based discrimination.
 * Sources
 * https://www.who.int/topics/violence/Equality-Now.pdf?ua=1
 * https://finland.fi/life-society/equality-now-receives-international-gender-equality-prize-in-tampere-finland/
 * https://www.humandignity.foundation/grantee/equality-now/
 * https://www.humandignity.foundation/grantee/equality-now/

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Women Political Leaders


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Yes, although it doesn't necessarily flesh out what the actual organization is. I find parts a bit confusing.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * It seems a bit biased in favour of the organization.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Most do, although some could be added.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Lots of the citations seem to come from the WLP's foundation directly, as opposed to outside sources.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Women in politics, women in leadership.
 * Sources
 * there doesn't seem to be many articles about WLP outside of the organization itself.
 * https://www.womenpoliticalleaders.org/news/