User talk:BrittneyWright/sandbox

Article Evaluation
Most of the article was relevant to the topic however the list of ongoing surveys and other surveys conducted was good information, but it was oddly placed in the middle of the article. along with that the notable alumni list was confusing to me? Why was it there? Where those people who had worked there? It was unclear to the significance of this section. The success and failures section had hits of biases stating that there was “contracting problems.” Again, this did not very clear and I am not sure of the relevance of this section. I thought that the data stewardship section was good and filled with important information, however it was interesting to me that there was more information on that section then on the organizational structure sections, especially when considering how important the census is to the organizational structure of the country not just how the US census bureau is run. With the citations, most of the links that I tried worked however there a few links that did not work or took me another Wikipedia page. So, the original citation was unclear. There was on source “This is why it’s crucial to what the nation knows about itself” from the Washington Post since it was from a newspaper one there can be assumed bias, and to the information may not be completely relevant to the topic. Most of the references were more current, however, there were some references that when back to 1987. Not all of this is bad one of the older references was about the first computer system. However, one of these references was the “Politics and the Measurement of Ethnicity” Witch has drastically changed from 1987. Even just looking the change in class and the biases of the period this source probably it not the best to use for that particular information. On the wiki talk page, there are many constructive comments on how this article could be improved currently it has c-class ratings in all of the four projects it is listed in. This is listed in the United States/ Government project, the United States Public Policy project, the Economics project and the Elections and Referendums project. The way we talked about the census in class pulled in a lot more of the political and cultural implications, the wiki page focused more on the history and how the Census worked.