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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.

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“UFW Holds Demonstration After Recent Hazmat Incidents Involving Over 130 Workers.” ABC30 Fresno, 29 June 2019, https://abc30.com/united-farm-workers-ufw-demonstration-march-hazmat-situations/5370367/ Garrison, Jessica. “Newsom Signs California Farmworker Bill He Hinted He’d Veto.” Los Angeles Times, 29 Sept. 2022, www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-28/newsom-signs-ufw-bill-aimed-at-helping-farmworkers-organize.
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 * Pesticide Incidents in the San Joaquin Valley
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 * Lead Section The article introduces with the first pesticide incidents that were recorded. The article does a good job with explaining the timeline of this issue. Overall, the lead is well written, and no major revisions are needed. Content  The information is relevant to the topic, and the contents are up to date, as there were multiple revisions in 2022. However, there simply is not enough content. The article talks about background, and then goes straight into the effects and the responses. There needs to be more detailed information about the specific pesticide incidents in the Central Valley.  Tone and Balance  The article is neutral, but there is too much coverage about the "numbers" and not enough coverage about the effects on the farmers. With this said, the article does not try to sway the readers to a certain viewpoint.  Sources and References  The sources include primary and secondary sources, but a lot of the sources are slightly outdated. There is not enough information in the recent ten years. The references show that these sources are from reputable magazines and newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and UFW. I would need to ensure that there are sources from more present days.  Organization and Writing Quality  The article is well written as it was reviewed by many people, and there are no grammatical or spelling errors. The article is relatiely well oragnized.  Images and Media  There is one image in the entire article, and it is well-captioned and it adheres to Wikipedia's copyright regulations. There is not enough images to determine whether the images are visually appealing.  Talk page Discussion  There is only one discussion for this article, stating that there should be more images. Unfortunately, there is just not enough discussion going on to evaluate this aspect of the article.  Overall Impressions  There certainly is a good foundation to this article. There probably is not a lot of revisions needed for the background information, and some of the well-known incidents such as the McFarland Cancer Clusters have its own section in the article. As important as this event is, I would add some images regarding some of these important events. The sections that are present are relatively well-developed, but I would create more subsections and images to imporve the overall breadth of the article.
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 * LeNoir, James S., et al. “Summertime Transport of Current-use Pesticides From California’s Central Valley to the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, USA.” Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, vol. 18, no. 12, Wiley, Dec. 1999, pp. 2715–22. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.5620181210. Furlong, Melissa A., et al. “An Epigenome-Wide Association Study of Ambient Pyrethroid Pesticide Exposures in California’s Central Valley.” International Journal of Hygiene & Environmental Health, vol. 229, Aug. 2020, p. N.PAG. EBSCOhost, https://0-doi.org.pacificatclassic.pacific.edu/10.1016/j.ijheh.2020.113569 . Arax, Mark. “Cancer Mystery Still Plagues California Farm Town McFarland.” Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2014, www.latimes.com/local/la-me-cancer-mystery-still-plagues-mcfarland-19970814-story.html.  Weston, D. P., et al. “Distribution and Toxicity of Sediment-Associated Pesticides in Agriculture-Dominated Water Bodies of California’s Central Valley.” Environmental Science &Amp; Technology, vol. 38, no. 10, American Chemical Society (ACS), Apr. 2004, pp. 2752–59. https://doi.org/10.1021/es0352193 .  Weaver, G. (2022, May 17). Fresnoland policy and Media Lab in California | the Fresno bee. Madera community says agricultural pesticides are harming them. Will California help? Retrieved October 24, 2022, https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article261396277.html  Becker, Rachel. “California Poised to Restrict Bee-killing Pesticides.” CalMatters, 20 July 2022 https://calmatters.org/environment/2022/07/california-pesticides-restrictions/

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