User:Erikabucb/Choose an Article

Article Selection

Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

Article Title

Osher Center for Integrative Medicine (Osher Center for Integrative Medicine)

Article Evaluation

At the moment, the article is only one paragraph long. One positive aspect of the article is that the first paragraph succinctly summarizes several facts about the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. However, there are numerous problems, too. Instead of using sources in the paragraph for various bits of information, the article redirects to various Wikipedia articles for key phrases such as "integrative medicine" and "alternative medicine. The article offers up a definition for integrative medicine, but it is unclear what sources were used to cultivate this definition of the phrase "integrative medicine". If anything, it is probably crucial that

1) this article defines what "integrative medicine" is. UCSF clearly thought it important enough to erect a building in honor of the field.

2) who Osher is named after (if anyone), at least in passing.

The article has zero sources, only one external link that sends the user to the homepage for UCSF (the University of California, San Francisco). That is a large problem for this article. It is, without question, a weak article.

Sources

http://web.a.ebscohost.com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=18dd4cf8-f4fb-49c2-a0bd-35d7beb51bb2%40sdc-v-sessmgr01&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=131287563&db=a9h

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.7453/gahmj.2012.1.3.006

Integrative Medicine and the Imperative for Health Justice (Academic Journal) (includes abstract) Chao, Maria T.; Adler, Shelley R.; Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Feb2018; 24(2): 101-103. 3p. (Article) ISSN: 1075-5535, Database: CINAHL Plus with Full Text

Option 2

Article Title

Emerson Collective Emerson Collective

Article Evaluation

The webpage for the Emerson Collective is pretty okay. It warrants more information but perhaps the information currently available is sufficient. Infobox is good, I think the purpose section is cluttered. The article is slightly out of date. It does not discuss progress made within the organization in the year 2019. This is notable in the History and the Selected Investments section, which lists accomplishments until the year 2018. Strangely enough, there is absolutely no discussion on the article's talk page. The article has not received a rating on the project's quality scale, and the article has not received a rating on the project's important scale. Looking over article sources, not many come from notable research papers. Most are website links to commercial newspapers. Perhaps looking into more qualitative analyses of the Emerson Collective would offer me a better understandings of the inner workings of the club.

Sources

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/policy-plutocrats-how-americas-wealthy-seek-to-influence-governance/68956907EC2F6280D25236ADE2063D8E

https://stawealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MarkZuckerberg.pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508487.2016.1186710

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315621944/chapters/10.4324/9781315621944-11

Option 3

Article title

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society

Article Evaluation

While arguably a moderately developed article, there are certainly issues that do persist. One need only look at the article's sizable talk page. Efforts have been made to enact an infobox, and, furthermore, make a good infobox, replete with relevant information. Wording is absolutely key. Is the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society a technology research center or, rather, is it a policy research center? The difference is paramount, particularly when it is unsafe to assume that people will read an infobox with more detail than an actual article. I am greatly concerned by the notification at the top of the article's talk page that there are two contributors that appear to personally/professionally connected to the subject of the article. Efforts need be to made to inspect and, in some cases, alter their edits.

Sources

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2002884

https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/hjlt30&section=13

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2585686

Option 4

Article title

Agatha Bacelar

Article Evaluation

At the moment, there is no Wikipedia article entry for Agatha Bacelar. In my efforts to create a Wikipedia page for Agatha, I would do my best to make my introductory paragraph as succinct as possible. It would probably model what her LinkedIn page would look like. At first, I would separate it the way articles are done for celebrities (Early life, career, personal, among other things). After I have acquired the preliminary information necessary, I would shape the article into that of a political candidate: going into detail on her political opinions and platforms. Unfortunately, I would not be able to use research papers as sources for this topic. Therefore, I would probably have to use university databases from Stanford, as well as articles written by popular media outlets.

Sources

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k3j3j/this-27-year-old-wants-to-lead-a-progressive-rebellion-to-take-down-nancy-pelosi

Option 5

Article title

Civil Law Commentaries Civil Law Commentaries

Article Evaluation

The article's infobox warrants improvement. The article does not offer information on important dates regarding Civil Law Commentaries. There is no founding date. It is helpful that there is a section for Advisors and Editors of Civil Law Commentaries.

Sources

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_73286970-6c56-5ca4-bc2b-b9483ff6b768.html

https://digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6691&context=lalrev