User:Smaxine1/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
[https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/celebrating-black-music-month#:~:text=June%20is%20African%20American%20Music,our%20nation's%20treasured%20cultural%20heritage. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/celebrating-black-music-month#:~:text=June%20is%20African%20American%20Music,our%20nation's%20treasured%20cultural%20heritage.]
 * African American Music Appreciation Month:
 * Article Evaluation
 * There is a note at the beginning of the article about how it relies too much on primary sources, and its need for more secondary sources. Additionally it could include more information about the genre’s within African American music. The brief paragraph explains how the month was designated by president Jimmy Carter, with a random fact about what Barack Obama had to say about it. The article is mostly neutral, but it references the presidency twice, which doesn’t fully explain the topic. The article is about an underrepresented group, but could be talked about more in depth. Along with this, the talk page mentions that Dyana Williams should be credited for helping make African American Music Appreciation Month happen, and includes a secondary source to that information. :
 * Sources
 * https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/philadelphia-music-activist-godmother-black-music-month-n381201

Option 2

 * Chicago Hip Hop:
 * Article Evaluation
 * The article’s content is partially relevant to the topic. The short paragraph included in this article is about a brief history of Chicago hip hop as a sub-genre. However it included random information about drill music and its origin within Chicago. The article is written neutrally while giving an overall background of the topic, and doesn’t favor any sides of a story. Each claim does have a citation, which seems to be reliable. Additionally, one of the citations is the Chicago Tribune, and there’s much more information that could have been included from it to use in Wikipedia. The wikipedia article doesn’t specifically talk about an equity gap within the culture of Chicago hip hop, but it does mention misrepresented and underrepresented populations.
 * Sources
 * https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189040805/hip-hop-50-chicago

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Ali Aguilar:
 * Article Evaluation
 * The first thing I noticed was a typo or inaccurate representation of where Ali Aguilar went to school. They wrote a sentence that said she played softball at Washington, but they didn’t include the specific university which was the University of Washington. One of the sentences about her religion is very short and doesn’t expand on her christianity. Most of the claims have a citation except for one, and they all seem reliable. The article does not talk about equity gaps, but has the possibility of mentioning it. The talk page has barely any information, and the revision history is sparse.:
 * Sources
 * https://www.teamusa.com/news/2023/november/1/after-big-summer-for-softball-ali-aguilar-ready-to-lead-a-young-u-s-team-into-pan-am-games:

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