User:MoBMila/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: African Americans in France
 * Article Evaluation

The article is still in its early stages, and lacks a significant amount of information. While most claims do have citations, some are dead links or lacking completely. In general, the entire reference section is questionable at best. Most sources are newsletters, magazine articles, or news articles - there is a complete lack of academic articles or material.

It is written in a mostly neutral tone, though I wonder if the interpretation section could use more balance. The quote from Stovall could be better incorporated into the article, as an "interpretation" section does take away from the articles neutrality.

I do believe that this article, if greatly improved, will tackle Wikipedia's equity gap by covering a historically underrepresented population.


 * Sources
 * Assorted comics from the Chicago defender
 * Tyler Stovall, Paris Noir, Chapter 2: "Bringing Jazz to Paris"
 * Stovall, T. (1998). The Color Line behind the Lines: Racial Violence in France during the Great War. The American Historical Review, 103(3), 737–769. https://doi.org/10.2307/2650570
 * Germain, F. (2014). A “New” Black Nationalism in the USA and France. Journal of African American Studies, 18(3), 286–304. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43525554

Option 2

 * Article title: The Jesuit Relations
 * Article Evaluation
 * Of all the articles I reviewed I found this one to be the most complete. Nearly every claim is appropriately cited, and the reference section uses almost exclusively academic books and journal articles (though the article lacks any resources published in the last twenty years). All included information is relevant, though I believe there is still a lot of room for growth. I would choose to include more about significant figures, groups, and events.
 * The article is written neutrally, though it could do a better job of representing the perspectives of indigenous populations. With that improvement I think the article could do well to tackle Wiki's equity gaps.


 * Sources
 * Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents
 * Worcester, T. (2005). A Defensive Discourse: Jesuits on Disease in Seventeenth-Century New France. French Colonial History, 6, 1–15. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41935175
 * Greer, A. (2000). Colonial Saints: Gender, Race, and Hagiography in New France. The William and Mary Quarterly, 57(2), 323–348. https://doi.org/10.2307/2674478
 * Katherine Exarhakos, "The Lord of Our Lands: Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Missions in Canada and Native Perspectives from First Encounters to Conversion"

Option 3

 * Article title: Cajun music
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is off to a good start. It is neutral and includes a great deal of musical theory (which I could never understand on my own). What is currently in the article is very relevant to the topic, that said the article is missing citations for many of its claims. Furthermore, the reference section is a little slim, it could benefit from more academic sources.
 * Overall I think the article is lacking in the history of Cajun music, and it should also study relevant Cajun artists. With those improvements I think it would appropriately address equity gaps.


 * Sources
 * Ancelet, Cajun and Creole Musicians
 * Borders, F. E. (1988). Researching Creole and Cajun Musics in New Orleans. Black Music Research Journal, 8(1), 15–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/779501
 * Regis, H. A., & Walton, S. (2008). Producing the Folk at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The Journal of American Folklore, 121(482), 400–440. https://doi.org/10.2307/20487627

Option 4

 * Article title: Atala (novella)
 * Article Evaluation
 * As it is, this article could be improved by including more information and better organizing what is already there. It is neutral and provides an accurate, well written summary of Atala. All content is relevant, yet could be much more in-depth. There are several missing citations, making some of the articles claims less reliable, and there is no reference section.
 * If the article better addressed themes of romanticism, nature, and the role of indigenous populations, I think it could bridge equity gaps on Wikipedia.


 * Sources
 * Chateaubriand, Atala
 * Hamilton, J. F. (1987). RITUAL PASSAGE IN CHATEAUBRIAND’S “ATALA.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 15(4), 385–393. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23532173
 * Wang, B. (1997). Writing, Self, and the Other: Chateaubriand and His Atala. French Forum, 22(2), 133–148. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40551961
 * Facteau, B. A. (1933). Note on Chateaubriand’s Atala. Modern Language Notes, 48(8), 492–497. https://doi.org/10.2307/2911683

Option 5

 * Article title: Creoles of color
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very important to the recognition of equity gaps on Wikipedia, as it studies a historically underrepresented population. As it stands there is a fleshed out history section as well as a section dedicated to "contributions to the arts" (though that is just a list of linked names). I think the article would greatly benefit from the inclusion of more modern history, as well as including more about Creole perspectives and treatment.
 * Most all claims have a proper citation, and the reference section shows evidence of quality research, and trustworthy academic sources. Current content is both relevant to the topic and neutral.


 * Sources

DORMON, J. H. (1992). Louisiana’s “Creoles of Color”: Ethnicity, Marginality, and Identity. Social Science Quarterly, 73(3), 615–626. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42863083

Dubois, S., & Megan Melançon. (2000). Creole Is, Creole Ain’t: Diachronic and Synchronic Attitudes toward Creole Identity in Southern Louisiana. Language in Society, 29(2), 237–258. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4169003

Couti, J. (2016). (Re)writing History: Revival of the Declining Creole Nation and Transatlantic Ties. In Dangerous Creole Liaisons (pp. 107–120). Liverpool University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gn6dwc.7