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Evaluating Articles and Sources
1)Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? I believe that everything in the article is relevant, I felt that the article was very straight forward with no distracting qualities. 2)Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? The article is very neutral, fairly educating the readers on the artist's background and work. 3)Are there viewpoints that are over-represented, or underrepresented? I feel that her brother, Philip-Dimitri Galás may have been slightly underrepresented solely because he was the driving force behind Diamanda's AIDS activism and there is very little information about that. 4)Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article? The links work, and support the claims made by the article. 5)Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted? I would say that some of the sources are not very reliable. A lot of them are articles written about her style of music. One of the articles even accuses her of "satanism" which I found to be completely biased. 6)Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? A lot of the information is current based on my assessment of the article. I would have liked to see more information about her AIDS activism. 7)Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There are a few conversations in regards to the image portrayed of the artist, some editors have requested a better image.Some editors hhave also added reasons they have removed certain content. 8)How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? The Article is rated "B" class.The article is reliable because it is being utilized by multiple WikiProjects i.e. WikiProject Women, WikiProject Biography / Musicians and WikiProject LGBT studies / person. 9)How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? It is different because it is more factual as opposed to looking at something from a lot of different angles, which we tend to do more of in class. Vsharma12 (talk) 02:18, 24 January 2018 (UTC)

Oakland Chinatown
Suggested Improvements

- Check for grammatical errors - Adding updated pictures of Oakland Chinatown - Include information about healthcare resources available to the densely Asian community  Vsharma12 (talk) 20:44, 14 February 2018 (UTC)

Transportation
Located at the crossroads of the 880 freeway, the tubes linking Alameda and Oakland, and downtown, Oakland Chinatown bears a significant transportation burden that dates back to the 1950s. Weekday and everyday commerce in the area creates thousands of peak period private automobile trips daily and resulting air pollution impacts on the neighborhood's elderly residents. Over 20,000 shoppers and tourists use its sidewalks every weekend. The traffic on I-880 is over 100,000 cars per day. The neighborhood is served by a freeway on-ramp to I-880 south at 5th and Oak Street. It is also served by a freeway on-ramp to I-980 at 6th and Jackson. Recently Oakland's Public Works Agency reconfigured travel lanes on Jackson Street to separate traffic travelling South on Jackson from traffic merging-into Jackson from Eastbound 7th Street. This effectively eliminated, through lane re-marking, any possibility of the lost art of the "alternating merge." The volume of automobile traffic travelling away from the core of Chinatown on 7th street towards the freeway connections was so voluminous and unrelenting, that accidents were occurring.

Chinatown has the highest number of automobile-pedestrian collisions in the City of Oakland. A pedestrian safety campaign brought in the first scramble system in Alameda County to Oakland Chinatown to prevent further pedestrian fatalities and injuries.

Until recently, California Auto Insurance company actuarial models charged higher rates to residents in the Chinatown's zip code under a practice known as territorial rating, or zip code profiling. The insurance actuarial theory behind this market practice purports that drivers residing or "principally garaging" their cars in a certain area face a greater loss and accident ratio. This practice, was outlawed by California voters in 1988 by Proposition 103 on the statewide ballot. The law made its way through the courts for 18 years before several insurance companies settled with California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi in 2006 to put an end to the practice.

Oakland is served by several AC Transit bus lines which run on 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, Broadway, and Franklin Streets. Many visitors to the neighborhood use nearby mass transit connections. The neighborhood has two BART stations: 12th Street Station on its northwest corner, and Lake Merritt Station at its eastern edge.

Public schools
Residents of Chinatown are zoned to schools in the Oakland Unified School District. Zoned schools include :
 * Lincoln Elementary School (K-5)
 * Westlake Middle School
 * Oakland Technical High School

American Indian Public Charter School II, a charter school campus of the American Indian Model Schools system, is located in Chinatown. It caters to students living in the Chinatown and Lake Merritt areas. In 2008 it shared a campus with Oakland Charter Academies (now Amethod Public Schools).

The Lighthouse Community Charter School was established in Oakland's Chinatown in the 2004 – 2005 school year with grades K-2 and 6–8 and later expanded to serve grades K – 12. In the 2009–2010 school year, the school relocated to a facility close to the Oakland airport.

Yu Ming Charter School, a Mandarin immersion charter school, currently serves grades K through 4. It will eventually grow to K through 8 by adding a grade every year. Formerly located at 321 10th Street, the school moved to 1086 Alcatraz Avenue in February 2013.

Colleges and universities

 * Laney College is a community college located at the south end of Chinatown. Course offerings include Asian and Asian American Studies, Chinese language, Japanese language, and Chinese Opera (Music Department). It is a part of the Peralta Community College District.
 * Cal State East Bay has the Oakland Professional Development and Conference Center at Broadway and 11th Street. Continuing education courses includes a certificate program in Teaching Chinese as a Heritage or Other Language.

Other education services

 * The Mun Fu Yuen "Chinese school" has after school and weekend classes in Cantonese and Mandarin to promote the Chinese language and culture at the Shoong Family Chinese Cultural Center on 9th Street at Harrison. The Center was established in 1953 by philanthropist Joe Shoong with the support of the Oakland Chinese community.  It is the original and longest established Chinese school in Oakland with graduates that have contributed much towards the welfare of our Oakland community.

Healthcare Services and Options
A source of healthcare for the surrounding community include Asian Health Services. Since 1974, they have provided the densely populated Asian community with health services including mental health, dental care, advocacy and opportunities to participate in community leadership. "To serve and advocate for the medically underserved, including the immigrant and refugee Asian community...", is an integral part of their mission statement