User talk:Erinford44/Choose an Article

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Wow, this is a wide range of very controversial topics! I have a couple of overarching notes and some thoughts on a couple of the specific articles you're looking at here. The big-picture notes are that the goal of encyclopedia articles is to deliver neutral, well-sourced information. It doesn't offer how-to advice or answer questions about whether a specific practice is wrong or whether one side in a debated issue is right. It sounds like you picked some of these topics because you feel passionately about them; that passion can mean some very positive things, but it can also lead to bias, or to trying to fit a sub-topic into an article that doesn't really belong in that article or in an encyclopedia entry. The other big-picture note is that some of these articles are C-class or B-class rather than start- or stub-class, so are already pretty well developed and will be more challenging to make significant contributions to. I'm focusing my specific comments below on the articles that are less developed already.

Testing cosmetics on animals: This is a very well-developed article for being start class, and I would be curious what non-biased (or non-opinionated) additions you are considering for this article. Reading the talk page for it, there was some discussion about expanding the methods section, although it looks like some of that work has already happened since that comment was posted. One addition you might consider is adding a not-yet-included country to the legal requirements section (if there are countries with legal requirements around animal testing that aren't already represented in the article).

Gun control: Similarly to the previous article, this one is quite robust (and has mixed class ratings, which may indicate it is already a C-class article that just hasn't been tested against C-class criteria for all the WikiProjects it's affiliated with). I can see the possibility of improving this one by adding study or regulation information from other countries (the US seems pretty fully represented here already). Do you have a sense for what information you would add to improve this article?

All of the articles you've linked to here seem like they will be challenging ones to make significant improvements to unless you are able to focus on a specific section and find a good range of high-quality sources to support that addition. Please let me know if you want to brainstorm other possible topics. Nicoleccc (talk) 18:58, 21 October 2019 (UTC)