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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.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Black Panther Party


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * The content is relevant to the topic, although it does not really elaborate much on the local history of the BPP. It concerns itself mostly with the national organization and broad events, but neglects discussing the rich local histories.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Overall yes, I would say so.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Citations are largely good and most claims have proper sourcing.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * A lot of the citations are good scholarship, but I do notice a not-insignificant amount of media opinions pieces which could be improved.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Absolutely. It is about the black radical tradition in the United States, which is severely underwritten about.


 * Sources
 * Williams, Yohuru R., and Jama Lazerow. Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009.
 * Jones, Charles E. “The Political Repression of the Black Panther Party 1966-1971: The Case of the Oakland Bay Area.” Journal of Black Studies 18, no. 4 (1988): 415–34. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2784371.
 * Tyner, James A. “‘Defend the Ghetto’: Space and the Urban Politics of the Black Panther Party.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96, no. 1 (2006): 105–18. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3694147.
 * Jules Boykoff, and Martha Gies. “‘We’re Going to Defend Ourselves’: The Portland Chapter of the Black Panther Party and the Local Media Response.” Oregon Historical Quarterly 111, no. 3 (2010): 278–311. https://doi.org/10.5403/oregonhistq.111.3.0278.
 * BRAME, WENDY J., and THOMAS E. SHRIVER. “THE NATIONAL-LOCAL INTERFACE OF SOCIAL CONTROL: THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND THE WINSTON-SALEM BRANCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY.” Journal of Political & Military Sociology 36, no. 2 (2008): 247–68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/45292871.
 * Bloom, Joshua, and Waldo E. Martin. Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2016.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Young Patriots Organization (YPO)


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Yes, the content is relevant to the topic consistently throughout the article.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * It is largely neutral, although some of the phrasing seems to have an anti-YPO bias and also obscure a lot of the discussions going on (especially around YPO use of Confederate imagery).
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * Sort of. Most claims have citations, although a lot of the citations seem to run back to just a single journal article. There is not a diversity of sources.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Yes, the citations seem to be largely reliable.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * Yes, it focuses on poor and working class communities in Chicago which would probably qualify as tackling the equity gap on Wikipedia!


 * Sources
 * Krzywy, M.A. Chicago’s White Appalachian Poor and the Rise of the Young Patriots Organization. J Afr Am St 23, 364–388 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-019-09438-6
 * Williams, Jakobi. From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469608167_williams.
 * Gitlin, Todd, and Nanci Hollander. Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
 * Guy, Roger. “Hank Williams Lives in Uptown: Appalachians and the Struggle Against Displacement in Chicago.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 18, no. 1/2 (2012): 131–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23337711.
 * Middlebrook, J.A. Organizing a Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity. J Afr Am St 23, 405–434 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-019-09454-6
 * Sonnie, Amy; Tracy, James (2011). Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times. Melville House. ISBN 978-1-935554-66-0 . OCLC 696099200
 * Arguello, M.M. We Joined Others Who Were Poor: the Young Lords, the Black Freedom Struggle, and the “Original” Rainbow Coalition. J Afr Am St 23, 435–454 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-019-09453-7

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Twenty-Five-Thousanders


 * Article Evaluation
 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Overall, yes. The content is a brief survey of the twenty-five-thousander movement in the Soviet Union which summarizes their origin, history, composition, and goals, so it is relevant.
 * Is it written neutrally?
 * Yes, the article is a brief and neutral summary of the history of the movement.
 * Does each claim have a citation?
 * No, there is only a single citation in the entire article.
 * Are the citations reliable?
 * Yes, the citation is very reliable. it comes from a monograph written by a well-accredited Canadian historian of the early USSR.
 * Does the article tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps (coverage of historically underrepresented or misrepresented populations or subjects)?
 * I would say so. Collectivization in the USSR is a historically contentious topic which a lot of mischaracterizations and misrepresentations that are divorced from scholarly consensus. Contributing to the history of collectivization in the USSR would clear up some rampant misrepresentations of the process and thereby contributing to filling Wikipedia's equity gaps.


 * Sources
 * Viola, Lynne. The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
 * Hughes, James. “Capturing the Russian Peasantry: Stalinist Grain Procurement Policy and the ‘Ural-Siberian Method.’” Slavic Review 53, no. 1 (1994): 76–103. https://doi.org/10.2307/2500326.
 * Olcott, Martha Brill. “The Collectivization Drive in Kazakhstan.” The Russian Review 40, no. 2 (1981): 122–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/129204.