User:Teague Sloane/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
 * Lux (soap)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This is a very incomplete article offering many areas for improvement. There is a lack of quality sources, and no citations used throughout the piece to validate its claims.  There is no clear message in the introduction and the article has no clear outline besides chronological snapshots.


 * Sources
 * Vinikas, Vincent. Soft soap, hard sell: American hygiene in an age of advertisement. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Sanatorium


 * Article Evaluation
 * The introduction sentence does well to outline what the article is about but the remainder of the introduction does little to outline the contents, the content is limited but well organized and written. The use of citations is good, but there are some pieces of information lacking one.  The article uses a good amount of sources and all links checked were valid.  The images used only add a visual enhancement to the article but the images seem to be within the wikipedia standards.  Overall the article is incomplete but has good information leaving room for improvement by adding information.  There is little perspective from under represented voices as well.


 * Sources
 * Paris, Gloria. A Child of Sanitariums: a memoir of tuberculosis survival and lifelong disability. Jefferson: McFarland and Co., 2010.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Trench Warfare - subsection on disease


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article's topic sentence is good, and the rest of the introductory paragraph does a limited job of outline the articles content. I am focusing on the disease section for the rest of this evaluation because that is where I would be doing any corrections or improvements to this article.  The content is incomplete with many of the diseases we learned about thus far and the challenges they presented to Soldiers at the front, and no mention of typhoid fever.  There are many citations for many reputable sources of information, and external links worked.  The article has some flaws as discussed in the talk page but the disease section that I am concentrating on leaves room for improvement as well.  It provides limited information and could always use more detail.


 * Sources
 * Gradmann, Christoph, Mark Harrison, Anne Rasnussen. Typhoid and the Military in the Early 20th Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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