User:Mmae101/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
 * Food desert


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is relevant to the topic of food deserts, going into potential reasons for them, geography, what it is, and impacts. It's a C-class article of mid-importance. I didn't see any claim that didn't have a citation to it, and for the most part the citations used are reliable and up to date. I did see quite a lot of citations to news articles which may pose biases, but I saw more research articles than news articles. It covers equity gaps, since food deserts mainly affect low-income communities of color.   In the talk section, there is mention of needing more citations for healthy food being more expensive by comparing calorie to calorie (healthy foods tend to have less calories compared to unhealthy foods but may be more expensive). The nutrition, safety reasons, work and family reasons, fresh food availability, and income and food prices topics of the article were substantially shorter than the other parts. One thing that I would consider adding to the article would be more on the topic of the economic side of food deserts and the reasoning behind supermarkets and other stores with fresh produce and meat not opening in these neighborhoods. The article covers supermarket redlining and theft, but it doesn't have much coverage on the actual numbers that supermarkets look at when deciding to open in a certain community (i.e. the perceived profits and losses). The article also has many issues, such as not dealing with a worldwide view, being too long to read, and not having the correct tone. Those would be things I would further look into when deciding what to edit and/or add.


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Option 2

 * Article title
 * Medical deserts in the United States


 * Article Evaluation
 * Medical deserts in the United States is a c-class article that suprisingly doesn't get very much attention (even though the issue is one that is rising). The article is very relevant to the topic, but addresses very few reasonings for medical deserts. It's written, for the most part, neutrally as I couldn't find too many biases aside from a reliance on structural racism and stereotypes to justify reasons. Not every claim has citations to it as well, but the citations given are typically research articles and recent. There is very little on the talk page as well, and very little in the history leading me to believe not much in terms of editing of the article. One thing that I would want to add to the article is the inclusion that places can become medical deserts as not all places start as medical deserts. I would include specific examples of this with hospital closings in areas and the impacts those have had on the community.


 * Sources
 * https://khealth.com/blog/growing-concern-for-people-living-in-medical-deserts/#:~:text=Medical%20deserts%20are%20growing%20and,January%202013%20to%20February%202020.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Murfreesboro, Tennessee


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is the same article I used in "evaluating an article". I only use this article again because it really stuck with me.  The article is relevant to the topic of the city of Murfreesboro, but lacks the hospitals in the city. Not every claim has a citation to it, so that could be one thing to improve upon. The citations given are mainly from news articles, but being as it's about a city that would make sense. It has a section about the Mosque controversy, which would cover Wikipedia's equity gap, but there isn't much detail on other gaps present in the article. The most recent mentions on the Talk Page are about the pronouncation of the city, and about removing the shopping section of the article (which looks to have been edited since). The biggest addition to this article is the addition of hospitals. I think it's important to include that section. This is a personal experience of the hospital in the area (and the experience many other had), but the hospitals service not only the city, but the surrounding areas. They are vital to those who wouldn't have access to such services otherwise, and by including mention of them, it could also be a way of including more coverage of underrepresented populations in the surrounding areas. It would take looking at maps to see the hospitals in the areas and the populations of such to find if the hospitals in Murfreesboro help underrepresented populations, but it would be a very interesting of what comes about it.


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