User:Mdelamerced/sandbox

WELCOME TO THE SANDBOX OF MDELAMERCED
Hello, my name is Michelle. I am a transfer student from City College of San Francisco and this will be my second year in Cal State East Bay. I am currently majoring in the Health Sciences with a concentration in community health/public health. I chose the healthcare field because I believe that it will help me create a bigger impact within my community and the lives of others. Also because I love working and interacting with people. I was born and raised in San Francisco and although I know that SFSU is a wonderful school, I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and attend CSUEB. During my free time, I like to play video games, watch movies and go on foodie adventures throughout the bay area with my friends and family. I have a terrible tolerance for spicy food, so I rarely get to enjoy anything with a spicy kick.

This is my first time editing for an type of platform such as Wikipedia, so I apologize in advance for any mistakes I make. This sandbox is where I will be placing all the current work I've edited into articles as well as what I am working to publish into the articles.

MDELAMERCED (talk) 06:31, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

JIM HODGES (ARTIST) ARTICLE EVALUATION
1. Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Focus of article was straight forward, although the article alternates from past and present tense, when occurrences happened in the past.

2. Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Not that I can see. But the overall tone of the article seems to claim that they knew exactly how the artist was feeling at a particle time in their life; casual tone.

3. Are there viewpoints that are over-represented, or underrepresented?
 * Some early life information can be elaborated more.

4. Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * All source links look to be fine. Just may be lacking in quantity(?)

5. Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * Most of the information comes from a limited amount of sources posted on different websites.
 * External links need to be updated. http://www.anthonymeierfinearts.com/artist/hodges/artistmain.htm (no page result; error)

6. Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * Fort Wright College can be updated with college’s new name, Heritage University (?).
 * Link to Elaine Dannheisser should be included.
 * Artist photo
 * Additional artwork by artist

7. Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * There is not much activity on the page’s talk page. Several students have edited and worked this page.

8. How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * It has been rated as, Stub-Class. Wiki has also alerted that the article has multiple issues pertaining to the fact that it is a biographical article of a living person.

9. How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? MDELAMERCED (talk) 21:13, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * During class lectures, we are open to discussing our opinions and points of view, but in wiki, it should be unbiased and fact heavy with sources.

JIM HODGES (NEW SUBSECTION)
A Little Extra Something (1990-1991) In Hodges' piece, A Little Extra Something, he used a sheet of paper and covered the surface using theatrical make-up, where the paper resembled the skin and the makeup showed delight in its application. This piece, according to Hodges, alluded to his own homosexuality.

Saliva-Transfer Drawings (1992) Hodges collaborated myself into the material in his pieces by the use of saliva. He drew ink doodles of spider webs, clovers, chains, lines, spirals, and a matrix of dots, then blurred them with his saliva by pressing the wet images against another paper and created different printed impressions. Hodges said that by using his saliva with his materials, it revealed a "sensuous act," where his hand would draw the images and his mouth would transmit it. This expressed Hodges' thought of empowerment and disrupting the thought of bodily fluids as a horrifying thought.

MDELAMERCED (talk) 05:52, 27 February 2018 (UTC)

CHINESE BOYCOTT OF 1905 (TIMELINE SECTION EDIT)
I plan to add a new section to this article page about how the Chinese boycott of 1905 affected the Chinese population during the plague epidemic in the United States. MDELAMERCED (talk) 06:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Event Timeline Leading to The Boycott Section - Addition (Draft)

(Copy/Edit)

Chinese immigrants were brought to the U.S. under a contract system to help with the construction of the Pacific Coast railroad. The Burlingame treaty of 1868 was negotiated by Secretary William H. Seward allowed unlimited freedom for the Chinese to immigrate to the United States. A majority of Chinese migrated out of China to go to the United States suffered a huge amount of discrimination and prejudice compared to Chinese who have gone to other countries.

Several events lead up to the boycott of 1905. These events were regarded as attempts to expel the Chinese from America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Talk Page: Working on adding information to Timeline of Events Leading Up to the Boycott. Inserted table format for the timeline. Added cells: (1897 and info, 1899 - Reports of Deaths from the Plague in Hong Kong and info, info for cell 1900 to 1904, info for cell 1892 - Geary Act, 1895-Lem Moon Sing v. United States). Minor grammar edits were made.

MDELAMERCED (talk) 23:12, 7 March 2018 (UTC)

Section published to article page. MDELAMERCED (talk) 06:35, 14 March 2018 (UTC)

PEER REVIEWS
PETER HUJAR ARTIST ARTICLE (JIVAN39) Article can use more information on the artist. Although the organized table of contents seems to be filled with a lot of information on Hujar, each section can be edited to add more details and elaboration. For example, for the exhibitions section, did the artist really only have two exhibitions from his entire career, even after his passing? PAUL SEPUYA ARTIST ARTICLE (MMURPHY36) I thought the article was well organized and straight to the point. Like someone had suggested before, maybe more information can be added from his website. Although I would like to see some examples of his work on the article page, I also know how hard it is to be able to find images that you can post onto the page without violating any copyrights. MDELAMERCED (talk) 06:11, 11 March 2018 (UTC) WOLFGANG TILLMANS ARTIST ARTICLE (BLANCA2019) Artist article page is nicely developed. The added photographs and representations of the artist's artwork adds a great visual touch for the readers to be able to see how some of Tillmans work looked like if this is the first article they are reading when doing research on this artist. The sections are nicely detailed, I think the only information I would know to add would be if I were assigned to this artist myself, then maybe. But as for someone just reviewing the page, I still think this article page is developed. MDELAMERCED (talk) 06:30, 13 March 2018 (UTC)