User:Strr34/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
 * History of the Communist Party USA


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section
 * The introductory sentence doesn't really give a great overview, sure the information is valuable but this could be rewritten better.
 * The rest of the lead section is fairly good touching on a couple of major events, it could probably use a sentence about when and where the party was formed but otherwise it's good.
 * It leaves out the obvious (It's a political party, founding members/dates, big/small) and jumps into details too quickly
 * Content
 * Plenty of good information about the connections of the party as well it's major actions and some of it's members
 * It could use more background on the parties platform, day to day actions, and to a lesser extent it's members
 * Seems to be some opinions leaking through the information
 * There is a lot of details and very little background, tons of organizational and personal names being thrown around without a lot of background of who they are.
 * Tone and Balance
 * Again some opinions leaked through especially near the end around the section of the fall of the USSR.
 * Overall it's fairly neutral there a couple spots needed to be cleaned up but for the most part it looks good
 * Sources
 * Many, many points throughout the article where the author needs to cite more sources, this is a serious issue especially combined with the fact that there are normative opinions in this articles
 * As far as the sources themselves they appear to be a bit dated and many by a handful of authors but they are still varied enough and seem to be academically sound sources.
 * Organization
 * Since this is about specifically the CPUSA it's my opinion that it should be organized via their ebb and flows not in a purely chronological order (i.e. the underground period or growth period or post ussr period)
 * Again there are background and fact laying issues and the author gets caught up more than once in odd wording spliced with newly introduced characters that really just serves to confuse.
 * Word quality wise the introduction is among, if not, the worst section in this article.
 * Images and Media
 * Not terrible but they could use more CPUSA symbolism (pamphlets, symbols, etc)
 * Talk Page
 * There's a couple small edits and one user lamenting how opinionated the article is, that's it.
 * Overall Impressions
 * While this article ostensibly has tons of information, it is un-cited, poorly organized, and at various points opinionated. There is a reason this is a C-class article and it's very clear
 * This article has some really good starting points (given that the author just forgot to cite and wasn't making things up) but it needs a lot of tuning


 * Sources
 * “Communist Party of U.S.A.” Ethics, vol. 50, no. 3, 1940, pp. 333–335. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2988978. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * Moore, Barrington. “The Communist Party of the USA; An Analysis of a Social Movement.” The American Political Science Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 1945, pp. 31–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1948827. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * ZUMOFF, J. A. “The American Communist Party and the ‘Negro Question’ from the Founding of the Party to the Fourth Congress of the Communist International.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 6, no. 2, 2012, pp. 53–89. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41889957. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * Walsh, Warren B. “American Attitudes toward Russia.” The Antioch Review, vol. 7, no. 2, 1947, pp. 183–190. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4609205. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * Campbell, Susan. “‘Black Bolsheviks’ and Recognition of African-America's Right to Self-Determination by the Communist Party USA.” Science & Society, vol. 58, no. 4, 1994, pp. 440–470. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40403450. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * SHAPIRO, PETER. “HISTORY OF THE U.S. LEFT IN THE 20TH CENTURY.” Crime and Social Justice, no. 2, 1974, pp. 94–97. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/29765920. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * https://miami-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_14743892_2019_1599627&vid=uml_new&search_scope=Everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&context=PC
 * https://www-tandfonline-com.access.library.miami.edu/doi/full/10.1080/15228880802322833

Option 2

 * Article title
 * League of Revolutionary Black Workers


 * Article Evaluation
 * Lead Section
 * The introduction is pretty well done; it hits the major basic points, while introducing major components of the history and remaining succinct.
 * Content
 * The content itself isn't awful, there is a lot of good information within the article
 * However only 5 sources are cited throughout the entire article which is worrisome to say the least
 * Tone and Balance
 * I did not notice any non-neutral tones, it seemed to hit this mark well
 * Sources
 * Limited citing and limited sources (5) this may indicate on over reliance on sources or a lack of credible sources about the topic.
 * Organization
 * It's organized by stages the League went through which is good but the titles are clunky and it could expand with another section or two
 * Images and Media
 * Contains none, it should have at least one image
 * Talk Page
 * One editing of a link, fairly dead
 * Overall Impressions
 * This article isn't awful, it just needs to be polished, a section or two more; cleaning up some clunkiness and addition of more sources.


 * Sources
 * Allen, Ernest. “The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: An Assessment.” Workers' Struggles, Past and Present: A "Radical America" Reader, edited by James Green, by Paul Buhle, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1983, pp. 288–292. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv6mtdnm.21. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * Chris Robé. “Detroit Rising: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Newsreel, and the Making of Finally Got the News.” Film History, vol. 28, no. 4, 2016, pp. 125–158. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/filmhistory.28.4.05. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.
 * Taylor, Jack. “Revolution at the Point of Production: An Interview with Mike Hamlin of DRUM and The League of Revolutionary Black Workers.” Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men, vol. 2, no. 1, 2013, pp. 99–112. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/spectrum.2.1.99. Accessed 8 Feb. 2021.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Hoxhaism


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Option 5

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