User:Shea Stevens/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
 * Marxist Feminism


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article's content is very relevant to the topic and highlights various aspects of Marxist feminism, including ideas related to it. Each claim has a citation, and the citations are reliable. The Talk page brings up possible bias issues with the critique section being longer than the main body, so that could be a point of edit.


 * Sources
 * Alexandra Kollontai, “The Social Basis of the Woman Question,” 1909.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * The Woman Question


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article provides a historical account of debate around the woman question, but does not tackle the topic from any other area of discussion. For example, this article could benefit from sections about arguments within the woman question in different political contexts. Furthermore, this article does not have citations for every claim. What citations are provided are notable, but come primarily from Western European sources.


 * Sources
 * Alexandra Kollontai, “The Social Basis of the Woman Question,” 1909.
 * Robert Blobaum, "The 'Woman Question' in Russian Poland, 1900-1914," 2002.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Kitsch


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article contains a summary of Kitsch art that seems to contain bias, relating the art genre to various themes without citing every claim. The article fluctuates between linguistic styles, at times writing to a broad audience, later seeming to write in the form of an art critique, analyzing art pieces with no real purpose. There is a heading "Uses" which contains very little information and probably doesn't need to exist. In the "See Also" section, the author relates terms and institutions that are not absolutely related to Kitsch. This article could benefit from alternative discussions of Kitsch that acknowledge it as an art form in service of socialism. The article contains a warning that it does not include all significant viewpoints.


 * Sources
 * Christina Kiaer, "Fairy-Tales of the Proletariat, or, Is Socialist Realism Kitsch?"

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Post-capitalism


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has several issues. The tone is not readable because it is somewhat too specific and academic in certain areas. The relationship between the topic and anti-capitalism also presents bias.


 * Sources
 * Paul Mason, "Postcapitalism"

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Compass Coffee


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is informative, however presents a bias because it does not contain updated information, nor does it include critiques to the company, or instances of the company in the news that are negative. The language in this article presents a problem. For example, "every other coffee apparatus imaginable," is overly positive and unfitting for a wikipedia article.


 * Sources
 * https://wjla.com/news/local/compass-coffee-covid-19-layoffs-dc-businesses-03-17-2020
 * https://www.popville.com/2020/03/dc-coronavirus-coffee-closures/
 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-losing-black-residents-west-of-the-anacostia-census-data-show/2016/09/30/b74279e8-8725-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html
 * https://www.facebook.com/compasscoffeedc/photos/were-sorrywe-made-a-mistake-weve-heard-your-voices-and-we-now-understand-that-po/3017772758314061/