User:Mundozurdo/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
Poverty Industrial Complex This article is in pretty good shape as is but could benefit from additional examples of policies both in and outside of the U.S. It is very pertinent to the Wikipedia equity gaps as it addresses the (racial) capitalism that sustains poverty and thus fosters injustice.
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[Strader] This article needs a lot of help; it is rated at Start-class, contains many unsourced statements, and unreliable sources like oxygen.com and medium.com. Linked Wikipedia articles (Poverty, Inc. and Poverty industry) also need a lot of help. This article could benefit from significant revisions, citation cleanups, and additional research.
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Option 2
Welfare's effect on poverty This article currently takes a very quantitative approach to the effect of welfare on poverty and I think there could be a lot of room for a more theory-based/qualitative discussion within the article (obviously, a neutral tone will still be prioritized). The existing citations are of high quality and will likely provide valuable insight for expansion of the article.
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[Strader] This article is also rated as Start-class but it seems to be a bit more developed than option 1. The article does build on some peer-reviewed papers, but some of the references are incomplete (#4 is not cited correctly as I believe Stephanie Moller was the leading author and #21 by George Borjas is missing the volume, issue, and page numbers). This article also needs a lot of work!
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Option 3
Criminalization of poverty This article is currently stub but has a number of citations and facts that provide a really great starting point for expanding the article. It is quite relevant to the Wikipedia equity gap issue and could address the topic from multiple theoretical standpoints. It would be worth including references to real-world policies that contribute to the criminalization of poverty.
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[Strader] I agree with you that working on this article will fill the Wikipedia equity gap, but this article needs a significant amount of work! [Strader] We'll be reading Wacquant in session 6 to discuss about prisonfare, but I'm not sure if you want to work on a stub article for your Wikipedia assignment because it'll require serious revisions and research (unless it is related to your final paper topic and you want to devote a lot of time to it!).
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Option 4
This would be a longer project and beyond the scope of this assignment but I think it would be interesting to create a new article titled "Welfare's effect on crime". My undergraduate thesis touched on this issue to a degree and it was rather shocking to see the lack of easily digestible information on the topic. A Wikipedia page would be helpful for future researchers to use as a starting point in their own work.

[Strader] Because we are using Wikipedia assignment as a part of your participation grade in this class, I suggest that you DO NOT work on a completely new article(!) If I were you, I would go with option 2:)