User:Runddm/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 Democratic globalization
 * Article Evaluation

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: (link) Democratic globalization
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. This is a topic that I am interested in and is a page that needs work

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?. - The lead is a good a summary of what is to come in the article
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? It is fairly wordy and could be cut down and still be an effective summary

Lead evaluation

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?-  Yes, all of the sections are related to democratization around the world and the movements and counter movements around the world
 * Is the content up-to-date? There have been no edits since 2017 and the latest event mentioned is 2010

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?- Yes, there is mention of both democratic an anti democratic movements
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No
 * Are there viewpoints that are over represented, or underrepresented? It is slightly tilted towards pro-democratization and could use more anti democratization
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? Not explicitly

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?- For the most part, however there are some source gaps especially in the social movement section
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?- The sources that are there come from reputable academic sources
 * Are the sources current? No sources are from after 2010
 * Check a few links. Do they work?- All of them work

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? - The language is clear but is in an odd order
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?- Not that I noticed
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?- The sections could be ordered better

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? There are no images on the page
 * Are images well-captioned? N/A
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? N/A
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? N/A

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There was talk of cleaning up the grammar on the page which seems to have been resolved
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? No
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? We have not talked about many political processes

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status? Is a good start to the topic but needs work
 * What are the article's strengths? A good brief summary
 * How can the article be improved? More detail, better organized and adding pictures
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. This article is not complete and needs to have work done.

Optional activity

 * Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback

with four tildes — ~


 * Link to feedback:


 * Sources https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/globalization-and-the-liberal-democratic-state/4DE5E478751F4BCE52036950C7701844, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/1-4020-3422-9.pdf
 * Sources https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/government-and-opposition/article/globalization-and-the-liberal-democratic-state/4DE5E478751F4BCE52036950C7701844, https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/1-4020-3422-9.pdf

Option 2

 * Article title Worker Student Alliance
 * Article Evaluation
 * Article Evaluation

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: (link)Worker Student Alliance
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. There is very little information on this wikipedia page and there many academic sources on the topic that will help build the page


 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?. The lead is good but short, gives a good, rough overview of what the Worker Student Alliance is but not does not grab the readers attention.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? The lead is too concise, there should be more detail of and background on the topic

Lead evaluation

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?- Yes, the small amount of writing there is focused on the topic
 * Is the content up-to-date? The movement was most prevalent in the 1960's there is no need for constant updates, but there could be more contemporary analysis

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?- No, the content is heavily slanted towards the positives of the movement with no critiques
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? It does not openly advocate for the movement, but only highlights one side
 * Are there viewpoints that are over represented, or underrepresented? Yes, those who opposed the movement were underrepresented
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? Not explicitly

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?There are no foot notes or sources attached to the article
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?-There are no sources
 * Are the sources current?N/A
 * Check a few links. Do they work?-N/A

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? - The content that is there is written in simple language that is easy to understand
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?- There are no spelling or grammatical errors
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?- There is no organizational structure to the article, there is just a lead and a section titled, history

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? There are no images on the page
 * Are images well-captioned? N/A
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? N/A
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? N/A

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There has been no updates to the talk page since 2006, and what is there is asking for more context about some of the terms being used which will would be helpful for those not familiar. Right now those terms are just linked to other pages which those on the talk page complained is time consuming to look through
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is listed as a stub
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? We have not talked about many political movements

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status? This article needs massive work to be considered complete
 * What are the article's strengths? It stays on topic and is good if you need just a rough understanding of what the topic is and its history, but for anything more you would need to do further research on your own
 * How can the article be improved? More research into academic sources is needed, add more detail of specific events and people involved in the movement would help this article greatly
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. This article is no where near complete and needs to have serious attention and work done to it

Optional activity

 * Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback

with four tildes — ~


 * Link to feedback:




 * Sources https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/241/  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2420100402
 * Sources https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/241/  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ejsp.2420100402

Option 3

 * Article Justification
 * Article title: Internet militarization
 * Article Justification: Increasingly the worlds militaries are turning to the internet for new ways to fight wars through cyber attacks, hacking of essential systems or surveillance. Providing a summary, history and updates on recent progress to the public via a wiki page will help people stay informed on recent progress of the millitary's  invasion of the internet.
 * Article title: Internet militarization
 * Article Justification: Increasingly the worlds militaries are turning to the internet for new ways to fight wars through cyber attacks, hacking of essential systems or surveillance. Providing a summary, history and updates on recent progress to the public via a wiki page will help people stay informed on recent progress of the millitary's  invasion of the internet.
 * Article Justification: Increasingly the worlds militaries are turning to the internet for new ways to fight wars through cyber attacks, hacking of essential systems or surveillance. Providing a summary, history and updates on recent progress to the public via a wiki page will help people stay informed on recent progress of the millitary's  invasion of the internet.

Sources: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2017.1362907, https://academic.oup.com/ccc/article/1/1/126/4067427

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