User:Madagascar20/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.

The first four that I researched, I had researched before talking with Arerli and did not understand that they needed to be Japan focused, however the last option is the one I am going to research for this class and pertains to Japan and gender inequalities.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Environment of Ecuador


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very short and does not contain a lot of information about the environment in Ecuador. Much more can be said about the the physical geography of the environment of the nation and what factors from the country are effecting the environment by things such as pollution by factories, over fishing, and the growing of monoculture crops in the nation. The article has a section bout the damage done to the environment but it is very short and not well supported.


 * Sources
 * https://www.numbeo.com/pollution/country_result.jsp?country=Ecuador
 * https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/06/Ecuador-to-clean-up-decades-old-Amazon-oil-pollution/5931551893715/
 * https://www.iamat.org/country/ecuador/risk/air-pollution

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Transport in Madagascar


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article discusses the current transportation route that exist in the country including railways, highways, and waterways. It has good detail about the physical location and conditions of the routes, however it does not give any more insight into which transportation methods are most common and the actual vehicles, trains, or boats used and the current condition that they are in.


 * Sources
 * https://www.lonelyplanet.com/madagascar/narratives/practical-information/transport/getting-around/local-transport
 * https://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/loc/40-transportation.html
 * https://travel.usnews.com/Madagascar/Getting_Around/

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Water skiing


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is laid out nicely and seems to contain a lot of good information surrounding the history, description, and variations in the sport. However there is nothing on the page that discusses that waterskiing is a collegiate sport that is common at many universities in the US. The article does discuss that it is a sport that has national tournaments however it does not include information about the different organizations that exist and the tournaments that take place at the university level or where is it most commonly practiced regionally in the world.


 * Sources
 * http://www.ncwsa.com/
 * https://www.teamusa.org/usa-water-ski/collegiate-water-skiing
 * https://www.usawaterski.org/pages/divisions/collegiate/CollegiateSkiHistory.htm

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Healthcare in Madagascar


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article discusses briefly the current modern healthcare system that is in place in Madagascar and states a few common diseases that are an issue in the country. It did not include anything about traditional medicine and the healthcare system that exists for it and how the modern and traditional healthcare systems coexist in the country. You cannot talk about the healthcare system in Madagascar and not include traditional healers and traditional medicine, it is not an accurate depiction of health care in the nation.


 * Sources
 * https://healthsoul.com/blog/healthcare-in-madagascar-hospitals-and-health-insurance/
 * http://hcs.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/176
 * https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/08/01/traditional-healers-and-modern-medicine-in-madagascar/

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Gender Inequality in Japan


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article touches on the presence and impacts of gender inequalities within families, employment, wages, and the roles and traditions though modern history. The article itself is not very long and does not contain any photos or graphs. There is a lot more that could be added within the sub groups that already exist and more subgroups could be created as well. One in particular that I would like to add would be pertaining to divorce in Japan and the inequalities that women face surrounding divorce.

 Option 6 
 * Sources
 *  https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2019/12/31/language/lets-discuss-gender-equality-japan/ 
 * Allison Alexy. 2020. Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
 * https://www.oecd.org/policy-briefs/japan--greater-gender-equality-for-more-inclusive-growth.pdf

Article title

Healthcare System in Japan

Article Evaluation

The healthcare systems in Japan article discusses a few main concepts surrounding healthcare such as cost, provisions, access, insurance, and history of the healthcare system. There are three charts/graphs and two photos used in the article, however I think it could use more to help explain the healthcare system. There is no mention of how healthcare works for families that are divorced or for divorced women and I am curious as to what healthcare is like for divorcees and their children. I want to add information about the inequalities that may exist between genders, regions, and different demographic groups and make sure it is included in the health care systems article. Sources

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31792-0/fulltext

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S027795361300720X

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/480937/pdf