User:ZenZorro/sandbox

Introduction
Hi, this is my sandbox. It’s a nice little place with some big dreams.

Little known facts about myself: I was born on a solar eclipse! So the world literally went dark with my birth :P

Article Evaluation
I decided to evaluate the article on Armenian-American polymath Eric Bogosian.

I noticed his pre-career biography is very short, especially when compared to the early life bios of other famous individuals.

Also while the references do check out there were only three of them.

In terms of his bibliography, the link to Operation Nemesis takes one to the historical event and not the book summary.

His career page seems to be missing a few citations, but aside from that, I could not catch any indication of bias.

Article Choice

 * Look up 3-5 potential topics related to the course that you might want to improve on Wikipedia. Review the content of the article and check the Talk page to see what other Wikipedians are already discussing. Identify one or two areas from each that you could improve.
 * Choose 2-3 potential articles from that list that you can tackle. Post links to the articles, reliable sources you could cite, and your notes about what you might improve in your sandbox.
 * Finally, present your choices to your instructor for feedback.

Topic 1: Armenian/Armenian-American Journals, Journalists, and Journalism. There isn’t a separate article about Armenian journalists, and thus no direct talk page, but there are a few incomplete lists of Armenian journalists and stub articles of journals. Thankfully, there is a page about Armenian newspapers. Not all the newspapers have pages, though most do. The talk page mentioned malware removal, so one has to make sure all the links/references there work and do not lead to harmful websites.

As for links, usually the sites themselves have a biography portion detailing their history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_newspapers

One such journal that interests me is the California Courier and its founder, Harut Sassounian.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_California_Courier

Harut Sassounian

Topic 2: Short Stories

There are a lot of books and short stories that have yet to have articles written on them. Some of these include Leon Surmelian’s stories, and it would be nice if they had their own articles.

M. Farid would be a nice one to summarize, along with “I ask you Ladies and Gentlemen”. Surmelian’s talk page has nothing listed.

Topic 3: Agop Jack Hacikyan, author/compiler of the Heritage of Armenian Literature: Not much is written about this guy, and his talk page only mentioning a broken link.

However, he was a rather prolific academic and a noted professor whose biography would be a nice to expand. The references listed, including his obituary, could provide an easy way to fix this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agop_Jack_Hacikyan

Biography
Slavic studies from USC. He went on to earn a master's degree in political science from Columbia University.