User:SpiffyTime/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: Police reform in the United States
 * Article Evaluation: The article is very relevant to the topic of police reform and discusses police reform in the United States in a bias manner and does not don't discuss whether or not reform is a good thing or a bad thing. It appears that each claim has a reference. Most of the references are from 2017 and before it could be useful to references more recently, especially with all that is going on in society now. The talk page mentions the idea of elaborating the lead section and improving the overall comprehension of the article. The article has a lot of room for improvement.
 * Sources: Police reform in the United States

Option 2

 * Article title: Defund the police
 * Article Evaluation: The article is relevant to the topic of police defunding and disucssess relevant information from recent events. The article does a pretty good job at explain what "defund the police" and explaining where and how it started. The article could elaborate more on the topics of effectiveness and racism of the defund the police campaign. The articles talk page mentions the need to not use ambiguous working and make sure the article has the cities and states each incident takes place, so if the reader knows where the city is located. The article has a lot of room for improvement.
 * Sources: Defund the police

Option 3

 * Article title: Police abolition movement
 * Article Evaluation: The article is relevant to the topic of police abolishment and discusses recent events taking place in the United States that are crucial to the cause. The article is a fairly well established article so editing might be a little more difficult than others. The article remains neutral through the article, it discusses police abolishment but does not discuss whether the author thinks its good or bad. The article has a very large reference section and properly using the references discussed but I think it would be useful to incorporate more of these references. The articles talk page discusses change that can be done within the article but no major changes.
 * Sources: Police abolition movement

Option 4

 * Article title: The End of Policing
 * Article Evaluation: The article is relevant to the topic of ending the police and discusses but there is a lot of room for improvement. The article is discussing a book we have currently discussed in class "The End of Policing" by Alex Vitale. This would be a good article to edit since I am familiar with Alex Vitale's writing "The End of Policing". As far as I an tell the author of the article uses references properly and I would be interest to see what other articles could be used since the reference list is fairly small. The articles talk page does not have any additional edits, no one has started to post on the talk page.
 * Sources: The End of Policing

Option 5

 * Article title: Criminal justice reform
 * Article Evaluation: The article is relevant to the topic of criminal justice reform but there is plenty room for improvement. The article is fairly short and does not have a ton of information on the topic of criminal justice reform, but the information there is relevant. The article remains neutral throughout but the information resent is very scarce. The references used by the author are relevant and there is a decent amount of references but possibly could be elaborated on. The articles talk page does not have any additional edits, no one has stated to post on the talk page yet.
 * Sources: Criminal justice reform