User:Owenpayne2000/Choose an Article

Article Selection
I have a few articles I can examine, in general, they all relate to my semester's central research topic: Pandemics. In specific, I hope to examine and gather information on the ways in which Pandemics have caused community responses and societal shifts within minority communities. I will periodically come back to this throughout the week to add sources.

Option 1

 * COVID-19 pandemic in New York City
 * COVID-19 pandemic in New York City


 * Article Evaluation
 * This topic is relevant to my topic, if I chose to edit it I would likely add a section about some of the ways in which African Americans within the city in specific have been affected. This article is neutrally written, and the talk section is active with people constantly editing for neutrality and accuracy. There are reliable and updated citations available. Does not tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps.


 * Sources
 * “Deadly Parallels.” Harvard Public Health Magazine, October 7, 2020. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/deadly-parallels/.

Option 2

 * African Americans in New York City
 * African Americans in New York City
 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is relevant to my topic in that I would be adding a subsection about my research interest, the affects of the COVID-19 pandemic on African American communities in specific. The article is neutrally written. This article is distinctly lacking in sources and direction, likely unreliable. This could be a good article to expand upon. The talk section is practically dead, with nothing new since 2017.


 * Sources
 * From Two separate encyclopedia entries.
 * Gamble, Vanessa Northington. “‘There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:" African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.” Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). Association of Schools of Public Health, April 2010. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862340/.
 * Gamble VN. Making a place for ourselves: the Black hospital movement, 1920–1945. New York: Oxford University Press; 1995
 * Økland, Helene, and Svenn-Erik Mamelund. “Race and 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the United States: A Review of the Literature.” International journal of environmental research and public health. MDPI, July 12, 2019. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678782/.
 * Britten R.H. The incidence of epidemic influenza, 1918–1919. A further analysis according to age, sex, and color of the records of morbidity and mortality obtained in surveys of 12 localities. Public Health Rep.
 * Sydenstricker E. The Incidence of Influenza among Persons of Different Economic Status during the Epidemic of 1918. Public Health Rep. (1896–1970) 1931;46:154–170. doi: 10.2307/4579923.
 * Weden M. Twentieth Century U.S. Racial Inequalities in Mortality: Changes in the Average Age of Death and the Variability in the Age of Death for White and Non-White Men and Women, 1900–2002. Volume 497 RAND Corporation Publications Department; Santa Monica, LA, USA: 2007.

Option 3

 * Spanish Flu
 * Spanish flu


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article can be relevant, if I choose to focus on a historical pandemic with a similar question. This article is good, so if I wanted to discuss the effects the Spanish flu had on African American communities I would likely be creating my article to do so. This article is rated as good and visited often, it is written neutrally, with numerous reliable citations, and a active talk section. This article would have to be a stepping-off point for me, as there isn't anything I can add without upsetting the flow and organization of the existing article.


 * Sources