User:Liannesparkman/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; social gerontology
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

Are the citations reliable? N/A
==== Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? The article talks about the tasks of social gerontologists and how there may be an overlap with demography. Since there is little information regarding this topic, I am assuming that this is an underrepresented topic. ====


 * Sources N/A

Option 2

 * Article title; activity theory
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
==== Is it written neutrally? Yes, the article addresses the positive attributes of the theory but also addresses that there are other perspectives and does not seem bias towards one over the other. They even bring up an opposing theory, the disengagement theory. ====

Are the citations reliable? Yes, most citations seem to come from encyclopedias
==== Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes, the article covers the social theory of older adults and proposes that "successful aging occurs when older adults stay active and maintain social interactions" ====


 * Sources; Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health, The Encyclopedia of Aging: A-K, Handbook of theories of aging, Gerontological nursing and healthy aging etc.
 * Sources; Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health, The Encyclopedia of Aging: A-K, Handbook of theories of aging, Gerontological nursing and healthy aging etc.

Option 3
'''Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes'''
 * Article title; disengagement theory
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

==== '''Is it written neutrally? The article seems mostly one sided, and only briefly mentions the opposing theories, it goes into depth about the disengagement theory and merely glosses over the other ones and only mentions that the disengagement theory is at odds with them''' ====

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)? Yes,

 * Sources; Gerontological nursing and healthy aging, Handbook theories of aging, Crossing fontiers; gerontology emerges as a science etc

Option 4
Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Article title; environmental gerontology
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?

 * Sources

Option 5
Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Article title; cumulative advantage/disadvantage theory
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?

 * Sources