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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:Convent pornography
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article strikes me as being written in a very unprofessional way—in the section about the Philippines, the author describes an Indigenous woman as a "native lass" and her vaginal canal vaguely as her "sex organ."
 * The text could be broken up into smaller paragraphs for readability
 * Despite the fact that there are images from Dutch and Viennese examples of convent pornography, the article makes no mention of these. Instead it only mentions French and Filipino examples. Considering Christianity is such a dominating religion across the world, surely other cultures have examples of pornography involving nuns, priests, friars, etc
 * Article is extremely short
 * Lead is unclear. Describes this as a phenomenon involving "clergy" but doesn't specify whether it's just Christian clergy, whether nuns were involved too or if it was just male clergy. The lead has no real intro to the topic beyond a definition
 * Sources
 * Sources prove hard to find for this topic. A lot of the sources I found were dissertations. I have included one of them for reference, and because I believe its sources could be useful.
 * Acosta, Ana M. “Hotbeds of Popery: Convents in the English Literary Imagination.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 15, no. 3, 2003, pp. 615–42, https://doi.org/10.1353/ecf.2003.0047. Euzenas, Lynn L. Illicit propriety: Protestants, sexualized convent narratives, and pornography in nineteenth-century America, The Claremont Graduate University, United States -- California, 2006. ProQuest, https://proxy.library.carleton.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fdissertations-theses%2Fillicit-propriety-protestants-sexualized-convent%2Fdocview%2F305357363%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D9894.

Option 2

 * Article title:On Our Backs
 * Article Evaluation
 * A lot of the information has "citation needed" footnotes
 * The lead could be expanded to give more of an overview of the topic as a whole
 * The "further reading" section has some great sources that should just be worked into the article itself rather than added at the bottom
 * The organization of the article is good
 * Considering this is a magazine that ran for 20 years, there are no examples of the magazine's actual contents nor any images to complement the article
 * The Talk page is very minimal
 * Sources:Guy, Laura. “Sex Wars Revisited.” Aperture, no. 225, 2016, pp. 54–59. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44404710 . Accessed 24 Sept. 2023. (one of the further reading sources that I feel is very relevant)

Option 3

 * Article title:Yoni
 * Article Evaluation
 * In terms of relevance to Hinduism, this is a great article. It is full of information, well written, and well organized. But what it doesn't contain is mentions of the ways in which "yonic" are used in literary and cultural analysis as a counterpoint to "phallic". There are countless uses of the word to describe imagery relating to the vulva/vagina in art, symbolism, literature, etc, and this deserves mention on Wikipedia.
 * article itself is well-cited
 * covers many areas regarding this word, several historical contexts, how the meaning changed over time
 * talk page has some very heated back and forth about the true definition of the word
 * images are decent and helpful
 * article is considered a "high importance Hinduism article"


 * Sources:Bardis, Panos D. “HEAVENLY HERA HERALDS HEROINES: PEACE THROUGH CROSSCULTURAL FEMINIST SYMBOLS AND MYTHS.” International Journal on World Peace, vol. 5, no. 4, 1988, pp. 89–111. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20751296 . Accessed 24 Sept. 2023.:Cohen, Larry L. “Freudian Symbol-Hunting: For Men Only?” CEA Critic, vol. 34, no. 1, 1971, pp. 16–16. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44375596 . Accessed 24 Sept. 2023.:Ready, Kathryn. “Reading Mary as Reader: The Marian Art of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti.” Victorian Poetry, vol. 46, no. 2, 2008, pp. 151–74. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40347416 . Accessed 25 Sept. 2023.

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