User:Khernandezumanzor/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.

Option1

 * Latin dance
 * Dance has always been apart of my life, especially latin influenced dances. I've seen at home, parties, in the streets, etc... Being a dancer of Latino descent, I love dancing and the big impact it has on the latin culture. Dance has infused it's way into the Latino culture, and would love to contribute spreading it's roots and beginnings dance has within the latino culture.Though this article is concise with their information and makes it simple for the reader to get a little of understanding of what latin dance entails. Their still some lack of information within it. First off, it lacks making connections of how these dances came to be within these respective nations. Secondly, the paragraph about the modernization of Latin dance is very under developed and need some work done into it. The photos used are somewhat accurately representative to the topic and is presented in a good way where the reader can get a clear visual of the dance but better photos should be used so the reader can get a better representation and visual of what latin dance actually consist of. Thirdly, that development paragraph was genuinely not even giving an accurate description of how the development of latin dance came to be and lacks substance. Needs way more citations. The title is also not relevant to the article topic. Latin dance is a little to broad, and the term "latin dances" should correlate to all Latin countries dances, such as Portuguese, French, or Italian as well, but the article topic mainly focuses on Latino/Hispanic dances, which is different from latin specific dances.

Option 2

 * Coffee production in El Salvador
 * I chosen this article because I found it interesting how the coffee production had a major part in the history of the Salvadoran economy and how it effected the country's people day to day. Also I knew the coffee production and it's system and effects of hierarchy of the country and social mobility were one of the reasons why the country had a whole civil war, so I find it interesting to read upon that. There was a lot of complaints of how this article didn't use enough sources to reference and heavily relied on one source for it's information. I took note how some of these recent developments were a little bit out of date and is in need to updated on more recent data. Some of the external links should be modified and make sure it's properly working, I read in the talk that was a reoccurring issue. The history portion displayed a well developed an accurate representation on what really went on, while their other sections seemed very under developed in structure and information. More links and citation are needed so the reader has more availability to related topics or a better understand about their talking about, this is avoided in this article a lot.



Option 3

 * Astrology
 * The main reason for choosing this article was because I myself take interest in this topic and the ideology of Astrology itself. Although Astrology is a type of pseudoscience, their is still a deep history and relations between different culture's beliefs that goes into. Which I find interesting to explore it's content, and inform more people who just like me want to learn more about the background of Astrology, and the truths behind it. (Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was. From reading this article, I've come to learn the background history behind Astrology from all over the worlds and it's connection to one another. And how it was used and still used nowadays. One thing I noticed though is that they mentioned all the different ancient cultures that practiced astrology, and while yes they explained each one of them how they practiced astrology in their culture. They forgot to explain how the mayans used astrology even though they were one of the old civilization that they mentioned. Also the pictures aren't laid out in a way where the reader would take notice and can easily be confused as an ad. While though this is a well developed article with a clean format/outline and a very well detailed informative writing of the topic. Their still things missing that need to develop more for a clear explanation, instead as just being a name dropper; for example the Mayans correlation. Their is an overrepresentation of western/ European astrology in this article, which may come off a little biased.