User:Laurencraven/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
 * Candlestick murder


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article's content is relevant to the topic of anti-LGBT hate crimes and defiantly seems to be written in a neutral way. Many of the claims have a citation but some of the more minor backdrop details do not have a citation right after them in the article. After looking at the citations the book titled, Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South, looks quite reliable but all five of the other sources are from the same place, the Charleston News and Courier, and are hard to find. That website does not look very reliable and the fact that the sources are all from the same place does not usually make for a well rounded and completely unbiased article. However, this is a seemingly underrepresented topic so the article does seem to be tackling one of Wikipedia's equity gaps.


 * Sources
 * Waters, Dustin. "The sensational Candlestick Murder trial of 1958 struck fear in Charleston's gay community". Charleston City Paper. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
 * Sears, James T. (2001). Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South. New York: Rutgers University Press. pp. 197–211. ISBN 0813529646.
 * Chapman, William (November 2, 1958). "Queen Street Man Murder Victim". Charleston News and Courier.
 * Robertson, Glenn (11 December 1958). "Murder Weapon" Candlestick Plays Big Role in Case". Charleston News and Courier.
 * "Conflicting Tale Told by 2 Trial Witnesses". Charleston News and Courier. 11 December 1958.
 * "Killing Justified". Charleston News and Courier. 12 December 1958.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Eureka O'Hara


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is quite relevant to the topic of de-transitioning but it does not include a much of any information about de-transitioning in general or Eureka O'Hara's personal experience de-transitioning which I think would be important to include in the article. I think that the article is written neutrally and it includes the basic facts of O'Hara's life like their education and career and their involvement in RuPaul's Drag Race. Each claim has a citation and there are many different types of sources. A few of the citations seem pretty reliable like the ones that are interviews with O'Hara and quotes from them but many of the citations are from Twitter and Instagram and gossip sites. However, those are probably the best sources available because there would not be any scholarly sources or sites like that on O'Hara. De-transitioning is definitely an underrepresented and controversial topic so the article does seem to be tackling one of Wikipedia's equity gaps although it should include more information on the actual topic.


 * Sources
 * Kiki with Eureka O'Hara, retrieved 2021-09-11
 * "Eureka O'Hara excited to represent Johnson City on 'RuPaul's Drag Race'". Johnson City Press. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
 * 54 more

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Patricia Campos Doménech


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article's content is related to the topic of lesbian military personal and it is written very neutrally. Each claim has a citation and the citations all seem reliable and some of them are interviews with Patricia Campos Doménech as well as news articles. I think the article does look at one of Wikipedia's equity gaps because there does not seem to be a ton of articles on the site about lesbian women in the military. However there could be more information on Doménech's experience in the Navy.


 * Sources

"Patricia Campos: 'Mi corazón siempre será de piloto militar, pero lo dejo por ser lesbiana'" [Patricia Campos: 'My Heart will Always Be that of a Military Pilot, but I Leave it as a Lesbian']. 20 minutos (in Spanish). EFE. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2019.

Pita, Elena (8 September 2015). "Patricia Campos, pionera sin fronteras"[Patricia Campos, Pioneer Without Borders]. Expansión (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2019.

Gonzalez, Cristina (13 June 2016). "Patricia Campos: 'Denuncié el trato machista y homófobo del Ejército, pero no sirvió de nada'" [Patricia Campos: 'I Denounced the Military's Chauvinistic and Homophobic Treatment, but it Did Not Help']. enfemenino(in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2019.

Cañizares, Rubén (17 June 2016). "Patricia Campos, la heroína de las Fuerzas Armadas españolas que triunfa en el fútbol" [Patricia Campos, the Heroine of the Spanish Armed Forces that Triumphs in Football]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2019.

"La ondense Patricia Campos premiada con el galardón Miki Roqué por la Paz"[Onda Native Patricia Campos Wins the Miki Roqué Award for Peace]. Levante-EMV(in Spanish). 9 July 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2019.

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Option 4

 * Article title
 * Marja-Sisko Aalto


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is relevant to the topic of transgender clergy and it is written neutrally. Each claim has a citation and after looking at them the citations all seem very reliable and they are from Finland where Marja-Sisko Aalto is from. The article does look at one of Wikipedia's equity gaps because are not many articles on the site about transgender people in the Church and this article gives a good overview of the subject and of Aalto's personal experience.


 * Sources
 * Juhani Saarinen. "Kirkkoherra odotti vuosikymmeniä muutosta miehestä naiseksi - HS.fi - Kotimaa". HS.fi. Archived from the original on 2012-10-20. Retrieved 2013-04-30. "Piispan mielestä Olli Aallon olisi vaikea jatkaa seurakunnan työssä". Etelä-Saimaa. 2008-11-11. Retrieved 2008-11-11.
 * Anttonen, Veikko. "The sacredness of the self, of society and of the human body: the case of a Finnish transgender pastor Marja-Sisko Aalto" (PDF). Archived (PDF)from the original on 2020-05-08.
 * "Olli Aallosta tulee Marja-Sisko Aalto". Kouvolan Sanomat. 2008-11-12. Retrieved 2008-11-13.
 * Ylen Elävä arkisto: Onnellinen Marja-Sisko Aalto
 * 5 more

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Kayne Gillaspie


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is relevant to the topic of LGBT fashion designers and it is written very neutrally. However, each claim does not have a citation and there are some facts that are not backed up by evidence. One source was no longer available but one was an interview with Kayne Gillaspie which would be a very reliable source and the other source is from a .org web archive but does not look like a very trust worthy site. The article does not really look at one of Wikipedia's equity gaps as there is quite a lot of information on LGBT fashion designers. The article did a good job of looking at Gillaspie's education, career and time of "Project Runway" which I think is a good bit of information for the topic.


 * Sources

"Kayne Gillaspie's Official Biographical Information". Archived from the original on 2008-05-24. Retrieved 2008-05-01.

VIDEO: Gillaspie Interview - KWTV - April 30, 2008

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