User:Ryanpolito/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

 * Media
 * ·      Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article is discussing media, it is on topic  ·      Is it written neutrally?  The article is written neutrally  ·      Does each claim have a citation?  Each claim has citation  ·      Are the citations reliable?  Citation is reliable  ·      Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?  This article does not cover an equity gap  ·      Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.  Many users say this page has poorly defined the subject matter, could make a good page to update.
 * Media
 * Media
 * Media

Option 2

 * Media studies
 * ·      Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article is extremely relevant  ·      Is it written neutrally?  The article is written neutrally  ·      Does each claim have a citation?  The article cites all claims  ·      Are the citations reliable?  The citations are reliable  ·      Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?  This article does not cover equity gaps  ·      Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.  The article is considered to be a good representation of the subject however people have been discussion grammatical and formatting errors
 * Media studies
 * Media studies
 * Media studies

Option 3

 * Mass media
 * ·      Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article is directly related to what we have discussed in class  ·      Is it written neutrally?  The article is neutrally written  ·      Does each claim have a citation?  Each claim have citation  ·      Are the citations reliable?  All citations are reliable  ·      Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?  The page has many section where these issues could be discussed but does not go into the topic  ·      Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.  There doesn’t seem to be much talk about revisions on the page however it seems multiple other classes have used this article for their own wiki assignments
 * Mass media
 * Mass media
 * Mass media

Option 4

 * Journalism
 * ·      Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article isn’t directly related to what we have discussed in class but is related to media as a whole  ·      Is it written neutrally?  The article is written neutrally  ·      Does each claim have a citation?  The article does have citation for each claim  ·      Are the citations reliable?  All citation is reliable  ·      Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?  The article goes slightly into equity gaps talking about journalism throughout different cultures but could go much further into the topic  ·      Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.  The article is considered accurate but people seem to want more details added to the topics of copyright and fair use in journalism
 * Journalism
 * Journalism
 * Journalism

Option 5

 * Media psychology
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article is related to the topics discussed in class but is less closely connected than the pages above  ·      Is it written neutrally?  The article is written neutrally  ·      Does each claim have a citation?  Each claim has citation  ·      Are the citations reliable?  All citations are relliable  ·      Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?  The article does not discuss and equity gaps  ·      Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.  The article is very empty. This is a topic in which a lot of people have a lot to add but theres only a few topics written compared to other pages with far more to them
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? The article is related to the topics discussed in class but is less closely connected than the pages above  ·      Is it written neutrally?  The article is written neutrally  ·      Does each claim have a citation?  Each claim has citation  ·      Are the citations reliable?  All citations are relliable  ·      Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?  The article does not discuss and equity gaps  ·      Check out the article's Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already contributing. Consider posting some of your ideas to the article's Talk page, too.  The article is very empty. This is a topic in which a lot of people have a lot to add but theres only a few topics written compared to other pages with far more to them


 * Media psychology
 * Media psychology