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Article Evaluation

Choose an article on Wikipedia related to your course to read and evaluate. As you read, consider the following questions (but don't feel limited to these):

"Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?" -Yes, everything in the article is relevant, however I believe there should be more on the Supreme Court cases leading up to the equality of the sexes/genders/relationships/marriages within the LGBT community. For example, Lawrence v. Texas,etc. Knowing LGBT office-holders is valuable information but it should not take up so much space in the subsections.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? -No, the article seemed to state historical events like the Stonewall Riots and statistics in the Gallup surveys as evidence of the hyper-discrimination in the black LGBT community.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? -I believe white LGBT are over-represented in this article because it does little to dive into the historic and systemic centers of this hyper-discrimination against black LGBT and does more to compare the "coming-out" processes of white LGBT compared to black LGBT. For example, the first paragraph is this super-brief history about how the entire LGBT movement gained traction - not about how black LGBT gained any type of recognition. The second paragraph does a better job describing black LGBT life more specifically, however, there is very little peer-reviewed evidence of any opinions of black LGBT - probably because it is a very new topic or because nobody has ever wanted to #anthrosowhite.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

-Yes the citations work but the evidence used in these articles seems poorly configured. It is hard to tell what is fact from biased with these sources and it is even harder to prove causation.

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? -Some of these sources are incredibly biased and non-developed research. For example, some of these links direct me to a Pew Research article about surveying attitudes about the black LGBT community that could be heavily biased and falsely administered. Others are history from both white and black groups (The Encyclopedia and the NAACP respectively) that give more of an extensive background on black LGBT.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? -What is missing is cold, hard data. Now I'm not saying it isn't obvious that black LGBT are far more at danger than white LGBT, but I will say that it is dangerous to assume that black populations are more discriminatory to their own LGBT populations because of "religious and cultural convictions" just like it is dangerous to assume gang violence in black communities happens because of cultural deviance. If we do not know the answer to the question that the research is asking, then we should not assume.

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 is very few conversations happening and more suggestions: for example, one says that the article should include more about the intersectionality of the LGBT community, the harsher dynamic for black, transgender women, black lesbian women, and one is asking that they fix a statistic. All of which, however, are the only 3 comments on the page. This topic has a LOT more things that could be discussed on.

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? -In class, we have talked about the BlackLivesMatter movement and the LGBT movement hand-in-hand as one-in-the-same social movement. Even Alicia Gardza had spoke upon the intersectionality of the movement in her interview.

Optional: Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback with four tildes —

-What kind of economic disparity does the LGBT community face?