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: American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History

Article Evaluation:

The article is good overall and has been rated B-Class. However, it could be improved to address equity gaps. This could be accomplished by adding more information on the collections, collectors and the source communities from which items came. Also, more links could be added to link to relevant articles produced by and about non-Western source communities.

Sources

Jonaitis, Aldona. 1988. From the Land of the Totem Poles: The Northwest Coast Indian art collection at the American Museum of Natural History. Seattle

1. University of Washington Press.
2. Mohan, Urmila. 2021. The Indonesian Alcove at the American Museum of Natural History: Art, Culture Areas, and the Mead-Bateson Bali Project. Museum Anthropology 44(1-2): 11-23.
3. Chan, Ying-kit. 2019. Manly Civilization in China: Harry R. Caldwell, the ‘Blue Tiger’, and the American Museum of Natural History. Modern Asian Studies 53(5): 1381-1414.
4. Jamgochian, Nevdon. 2022. Looking at Armenians in the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 29(1): 129-130.
5. Brown, Julie K. 2014. Connecting Health and Natural History: A Failed Initiative at the American Museum of Natural History, 1920-1922. American Journal of Public Health 104(10): 1877-1888.
6. Lozano, Henry Knight. 2021. Reptilian State: Florida at the American Museum of Natural History One Hundred Years Ago. Southern Cultures 27(2): 14-27.
7. Black, Riley. 2022. An Exhibit Fit for a King: Towering models, engaging interactives, and virtual reality bring the Tyrannosaurus rex to life. Science 364(6441): 639.
8. Bernstein, Michael. 2022. South Jersey Fossil Collection Donated to the American Museum of Natural History. New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 8(2): 183-193. (Note that Bernstein made the collection and was also the donor to AMNH.)
9. Heckel, Claire. 2021. Classification, Culture Areas and Gifting on the Great Plains: Remobilizing Objects of Exchange at the American Museum of Natural History. Museum Anthropology 44(1-2): 55-68.
10. Treier, Leonie. 2021. Annotating Colonialism: Recent Exhibit Interventions in Historic Cultural (Mis)Representation at the American Museum of Natural History. Museum Anthropology Review 15(1): 84-105.
11. Schildkrout, Enid, and Jacklyn Grace Lacey. 2017. Shifting Perspectives: The Man in Africa Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. Anthropology Now 9(2): 14-26.
12. Martin, Emily, and Susan Harding. 2017. Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum. Anthropology Now 9(2): 1-13.
13. Picciano, Anthony C., and Robert Steiner. 2019. Bringing the Real World of Science to Children: A Partnership of the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks 12(1): 69-84.
14. Homchick, Julie. 2010. Objects and Objectivity: The Evolution Controversy at the American Museum of Natural History, 1915–1928 Science & Education 19(4-5): 485-503.
15. Barnes, Monica, and Sumru Aricanli. 2016. He Perished Ere He Published: Records of the Work of Gary Stockton Vescelius in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 26(1): 1-18.
16. Lythberg, Billie, Jennifer Newell, and Wayne Ngata. 2015. Houses of stories: the whale rider at the American Museum of Natural History. Museum & Society 13(2): 189-214.
17. Jacknis, Ira. 2015. ‘America Is Our Field’: Anthropological Regionalism at the American Museum of Natural History, 1895–1945. Museum & Society 13(1): 52-71.
18. Gitlin, Jonathan. 2005. Darwin: An exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History. The Journal of Clinical Investigation 116 (4): 845.
19. Delson, Eric, ed. 1985. Ancestors, the hard evidence: proceedings of the symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History April 6-10, 1984 to mark the opening of the exhibition "Ancestors, four million years of humanity". New York: AMNH.
20. Cain, Victoria E.M. 2010. 'The Direct Medium of Vision': Visual Education, Virtual Witnessing and the Prehistoric Past at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1923. Journal of Visual Culture 9(3): 284-303.
21. Milam, Erika Lorraine. 2009. “‘The Experimental Animal From the Naturalist’s Point of View’: Behavior and Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History, 1928-1954.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 99(1): 157–78.

Option 2

x Article title: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Article Evaluation

Multiple issues have already been flagged for this C-Class article. These include that a contributor appears to have a conflict of interest, that the sources are almost exclusively travel websites and self-published materials. However, there are not a lot of reliable sources available to improve this article. Also, although it states that it has natural history collections, I could find no sources about those collections. Most articles focused on their zoo and conservation aspects.

Sources

1. Coladner, Debra, et al. 2022. Why Partner with a Zoo or Garden? Selected Lessons from Seventy Years of Regional Conservation Partnerships at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens 3(4), 725-737; https://doi.org/10.3390/jzbg3040054
2. Luke, Timothy W. 1997. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum: Imagineering Southwestern Environments as Hyperreality. Organization and Environment 10(2): 148-63.
3. Ivanyi, Craig, and Debra Coladner. 2018. "Reflections on Zoos and Aquariums and the Role of the Regional Biopark." In The Ark and Beyond : The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation. Ben A. Minteer, Jane Maienschein, James P. Collins, eds. Pp. 320-328. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. 2018
4. Babiak, Todd. 2009. "Valley Zoo in dire need of a renaissance; Inspector says facility 'doesn't have the financing, the commitment or the expertise' in place." Edmonton Journal, 04 June 2009: B.1.

Option 3

√ Article title: Gilcrease Museum

Gilcrease Museum

Article Evaluation

The article has very few citations for its length and interest rating. It is also out of date, considering the recent construction project and donation of Bob Dylan archives. The representation of Native American voices could be improved, considering it has a significant Native American collections and Thomas Gilcrease himself was a Creek Indian. Based on these sources, and others seen but not included, new sections could be written on the important exhibits, significant holdings, and the Bob Dylan archives. Additionally, the history and current construction sections could be improved.

Sources

1. Boggs, Johnny D. 2017. OKLAHOMA ENTREPRENEUR THOMAS GILCREASE DEEDED HIS ART TO TULSA WITH THE GILCREASE MUSEUM. Wild West Vol. 30 Issue 1, p26-27.
2. Boggs, Johnny D. 2018. Bierstadt the Bison Whisperer. Wild West 31(5): 26-27
3. Day, John A., and Margaret Quintal. 1982. Oscar Howe: a retrospective exhibition : catalogue raisonné. Tulsa: Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association.
4. Faragher, John Mack, and Thomas Schlereth. 1993. Review: Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West Reviewed Work:  by Jules David Prown, Nancy K. Anderson, William Cronon, Brian W. Dippie, Martha A. Sandweiss, Susan Prendergast Schoelwer, Howard R. Lamar. Journal of American History 80(3): 1007-1011.
5. Davis, Kirby Lee. 2009. These Walls: The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa. Journal Record April 22nd.
6. Anon. 2019. Flintco to manage Gilcrease Museum Project. Journal Record July 15th.
7. Davis, Kirby Lee. 2012. Ground broken on Tulsa's Gilcrease Museum research addition. Journal Record June 27th.
8. Frith, Simon. 2022. The lives and work of Bob Dylan. Popular Music 41(2): p257-264.
9. Greene, Andy. 2017. Dylan's Secret Archives. Rolling Stone 1291/1292, p11-14.
10. Corgan, James X. 1994. The Gilcrease Museum. Journal of Geological Education. 42(5): 521
11. Hutton, Paul Andrew. 2019. Ten things to know about the Creek Indians. Wild West 32(4): 10-11.
12. Reeves, Henry M., and Stuart Houston. 2007. Once upon a time in American Ornithology. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 119(3): 511-513. (the manuscript "Codex canadiensis" is at the Gilcrease).
13. Karp, Walter. 1990. Thomas Gilcrease and his western museum. American Heritage 41(1): 94-106.
14. Anon. 1994. First Artist of the West. American History. 29(4):14-15. (George Catlin exhibit)

Option 4

√ Article title: Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Article Evaluation

This article is fairly well rounded in its presentation of history, collections and current state of affairs. It also has fairly good citations. However, it could be improved with more detail about its collections, exhibitions, and programs. Links and more details could be included to enhance representation of under-represented voices in its world cultures aspects.

Sources

1. Anon. 2022. Not to be missed. Best of British. 309: 83. (Radical Acts: Why Craft Matters (Until 29 August) A groundbreaking exhibition routed in craft and craftsmanship, which looks to a future where we might live in a more environmentally and socially-responsible way.)
2. Lawrence, Rick. 2015. World Cultures: Enhanced online presence brings outstanding collection to a wider audience. Multimedia Information & Technology 41(3): 16-18
3. Lloyd, Bryony. 2018. THE BURMESE COLLECTION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, DEVON. Journal of Museum Ethnography 31: 229-238.
4. Cadbury, Tabitha. 2008. A TRADER IN CENTRAL AFRICA: THE DENNETT COLLECTION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, EXETER. Journal of Museum Ethnography 20: 109-119.
5. Eccles, Tony. 2008. ROSANNA RAYMOND'S GENEALOGY (2007): NOTES ON A NEW ADDITION TO THE WORLD CULTURES COLLECTION AT THE ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, EXETER. Journal of Museum Ethnography 20: 120-127.
6. Oliver, P. Graham, Holly Morganroth, and Andreia Salvador. 2017. Type specimens of Mollusca described by Col. George Montagu in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter and The Natural History Museum, London. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(2): 363-412.
7. Oliver, P. Graham, and Holly Morganroth. 2018. Additional type and other notable specimens of Mollusca from the Montagu Collection in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 281-303.
8. Barry, Jonathan. 2016. Review of West Country to World’s End: The South West in the Tudor Age. Exh. Cat. Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Oct. 2013–March 2014. Renaissance Quarterly 69(4): 1511-1513.
9. Chappel, Tim. 2001. Review of Iwa L'Ewa: Yoruba & Benin Collections in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter by Len Pole. Journal of Museum Ethnography 13: 108-110.
10. Warrior, Claire. 2001. Review of Klaya-ho-alth: Collections from the Northwest Coast of North America in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter by Jane Burkinshaw. Journal of Museum Ethnography 13: 106-107.
11. Giannachi, Gabrielle et al. 2014. Time Trails: presencing digital heritage within our everyday lives. Poetics and Policies of Performance 4(1): 97-114. (Soccer club app development)

Option 5

x Article title: Winnipeg Art Gallery

Winnipeg Art Gallery

Article Evaluation

The article is rated C-class, however, I feel the coverage is quite good. There are a fair number of reliable sources. The history section is very extensive and complete. The collections section could be improved by more details about the collections and galleries, as well as significant exhibitions. There are numerous articles in Border Crossings and other art journals that announce or critique exhibits at WAG; however, I don't think these add much value to coverage already provided. One would have to cover all or none of them. Probably the latter makes most sense.

Sources

1. Whitelaw, Anne. 2017. Spaces and Places for Art: Making Art Institutions in Western Canada, 1912-1990. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press.
2. Anon. 2002. Hindquarters (William George Richardson Hind Paintings at Winnipeg Art Gallery) Beaver 82(4): 5.
3. Eyland, Cliff. 2001. Official dumbing (review of Reilisms at Winnipeg Art Gallery). Border Crossings 20(2): 122-123.
4. Rozniatowski, David. 2004. Tom Thompson. Border Crossings 23(1): 89-91.
5. Gladue, Yvonne Irene. 2000. Nunavut Art on Display in Winnipeg. Windspeaker 17(10): 11.
6. Friesen, Gerald. 2001. The view from here. Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg. Manitoba History 41: 31.
7. Botar, Oliver A.J. 2002. Phenomenon of the Ukrainian avant-garde 1910-1935. Border Crossings 21(1): 74.
8. McLeod, Amanda. 2022. Review of "Kwaata-Nihtaawakihk: A Hard Birth." Prairie History 8: 118-120.
9. Corrigan, David Rockne. 2013. Capture the WAG; Winnipeg Arts Gallery celebrates 100 years of art with 100 Masters. National Post. 06 Aug 2013: B.1.