User:Myzers00/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
 * "Sri Lanka"


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article was rated as C-class and ranked as a Level-4 vital article. This means the content of the article is important but needs improvement. Looking through the article, I noticed that the article is missing mention of several important topics like the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami or Sri Lankan foreign policy with India which I think would be important to include.


 * Sources
 * Though the article has many sources, most are from a decade ago. I think it would be important to include more recent sources so the information in the article is more relevant.
 * Possible Sources:
 * https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/sri-lanka/
 * Michele Ruth Gamburd. (2013). The Golden Wave. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * "Culture of Sri Lanka"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is part of WikiProject Sri Lanka. It was rated as Start-Class but also of top-importance which means that the article has important information but needs the establishment of a strong starting foundation. The article is relatively short. It contains several sections but none go into much depth. For instance, there is little mention of the role of women or Sri Lankan traditions and values.


 * Sources
 * Though the article has a good amount of sources, there are not enough for the size of the article. Many paragraphs have only one or two citations, making the statements within them seem more like opinion than fact.
 * Possible Sources:
 * World Trade Press. (2010). Sri Lanka women in culture, business, & travel. Petaluma, Calif.: World Trade Press.
 * Argenti-Pillen, Alex. (2009). Economy, Culture, and Civil War in Sri Lanka edited by Deborah Winslow and Michael D. Woost. American Ethnologist, 36(4), 811-812.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * "Walt Disney's WWII Propaganda Production"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is part of WikiProject film and is ranked as Start-Class. Though the article has no ranking of importance it is linked in many film and Walt Disney-related articles so I believe it is of some importance. The article is very short and gives no in-depth information. Furthermore, it does not discuss Walt Disney's reasons for getting involved in wartime propaganda which is very important to consider in the topic.


 * Sources
 * The article has very few sources and most come from websites that may be unreliable because they are not written by scholars or experts on the topic.
 * Possible Sources:
 * Cooper, Timothy PA. "Walt at War – Animation, Transformation and Indoctrination: The Hypothetical Image of Disney’s Animal Soldiers." Animation 9, no. 3 (2014): 333-51.
 * Raiti, Gerard. "The Disappearance of Disney Animated Propaganda: A Globalization Perspective." Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal Ii, no. 2 (2007): 153-69.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * "Warner Bros. Cartoons"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is part of many WikiProjects which all rate its quality as C-class. There is some disagreement on whether the article is of top- or low-importance. Though the article covers an expansive history of Warner Bros. Cartoons, it does not include much information on the studio from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. It does not give much attention to Warner Bros. involvement in wartime propaganda during WWII or mention the studio executive's liberal beliefs at the time which directly impacted the cartoons that were produced.


 * Sources
 * There are few sources in the article and most come from the same author. These sources from the same author do not count as separate sources, impacting the article's notability and reliability.
 * Possible Sources:
 * McLaughlin, Robert L., and Parry, Sally E. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
 * Mollet, Tracey Louise. Cartoons in Hard Times: The Animated Shorts of Disney and Warner Brothers in Depression and War 1932-1945. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * "Tracking (education)"


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article is part of WikiProject Education. It is ranked C-class for quality and is of high-importance. This indicates that it's content is extremely relevant but needs some improvement. Though the article covers a range of topics, it does not go into much detail for them. For example, the history and background section is very short despite the fact that tracking's history in education is long and complex.


 * Sources
 * Many of the sources are at one to two decades old. Tracking is an important topic of conversation in today's society so it is important that there are current and relevant sources on the article.
 * Possible Sources:
 * Park, Vicki, & Datnow, Amanda. (2017). Ability grouping and differentiated instruction in an era of data-driven decision making. American Journal of Education, 123(2), 281-306. Saiying Steenbergen-Hu, Matthew C. Makel, & Paula Olszewski-Kubilius. (2016). What one hundred years of research says about the effects of ability grouping and acceleration on K-12 students' academic achievement: Findings of two second-order meta-analyses. Review of Educational Research, 86(4), 849-899.