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Racial gap in the United States

You don't have to propose an article - just create it (which I will did here). The subject is most certainly notable and important enough for its own article. The only thing I'm wondering right now is whether it should specifically refer to "wage gap" or "income differences" since the two are not the same. Volunteer Marek  20:16, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

One thing which is relevant here (I just looked at the draft version of the article which you briefly posted) is that it matters how you are measuring the gap (specifically between Whites and African Americans). Roughly speaking, the gap in absolute terms in median wages has remained roughly constant since the mid 1970's. In other words the difference wage(Whites,median)-wage(AfricanAmericans,median) has not changed much. But since both of these medians have gone up the RATIO wage(Whites,median)/wage(AfricanAmericans, median) has gone down. As an artificial example suppose that in 1975 white median wages were 2 and black median wages were 1. So the difference was 1 and the ratio was .5. By 2000, white median wages went up to 10 and black median wages went up to 9. So now the difference is still 1, but the ratio is .9. These are just made up numbers but that's basically what has happened. (The caveat here is that in the 90's probably even the difference narrowed, but then widened again in late 90's and early 00's). Volunteer Marek  23:28, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

I see the point you are making. Do you find that it is unclear whether the absolute difference or ratio difference is being referred to in the article? I took a look back at the section concerning black Americans and in most sentences I found that it specifically notes whether it is referring to the ration of wages or the absolute difference. I don't currently have any research on the absolute difference changes in the 1990s, I will look around and see what I can find. KiaraDouds (talk) 20:50, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

I think for the most part the text is careful in specifically stating to what it refers to. In the sentence "After the passage of the act, the wage gap for minority groups narrowed until the mid-1970s" though it should be noted that what was narrowing was the ratio. Other than I think it's good.  Volunteer Marek  21:05, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Yea, that is unclear. I fixed that and also added some information about how the wage gap changed in terms of absolute difference and ratio during the 90s and the first decade of the twenty first century as well. KiaraDouds (talk) 21:19, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Another thing having looked at your draft - there's no regional dimension discussed in the text, which was/is very important. Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the White-Black wage gap narrowed but it was all due to gains in Black's wages in the North (in the South, if anything, the ratio got worse). AFTER the passage of the act, Black wages in the South took off up until 1975 or so. I don't remember the exact year (early 90's?) off the top of my head but at some point the median wage of Black workers in the South caught up to the median wage of Black workers in the North so that now it's actually higher. Overall what this means is that most of the gains to Black workers had a very regional dimension - the improvements happened all in the South. The median wage for Black workers in the North grew as well but not as fast as in the South and not as fast as that of the White workers in the North.  Volunteer Marek  23:34, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

This information sounds like it would greatly add to the article. Do you have any suggested sources for this information? Thanks! KiaraDouds (talk) 20:50, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Mmm, I'm having trouble finding some of this online. There's a bit in this paper [1] (also other useful information), but unfortunately that version does not have the figures included (looking at the text it sounds like we'd want to see Figure 6, see page 13). There's also this [2] (jstor) which is a shorter version of the other paper, but this one focuses on just the South rather making cross-regional comparisons.

Overall I think your article is ready to go live. You can always improve it even once it's posted. Volunteer Marek  21:05, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the help. I'll look over those in the next few days and do some searching of my own. I'm doing this article as part of a class project, and we're not supposed to go live yet, but we will soon!KiaraDouds (talk) 21:19, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Ok, take your time then. From what I'm seeing, you're doing an impressive job. Volunteer Marek  21:21, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

If you need any help while the GA review occurs [3], please let me know. The article's really good. Volunteer Marek  20:04, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

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Street children in India

Hi Kiara, I have restored the deleted article into your userspace at User:KiaraDouds/Sandbox 2. — Ganeshk (talk) 02:04, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Should I wait to publish the article (and make no stub first) until I am done with it? KiaraDouds (talk) 02:11, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

Yes, develop it in the sandbox. Publishing can wait. That gives you time to nominate the article to WP:DYK when it is ready. — Ganeshk (talk) 02:40, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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GA Nomination Street children in India (Before review)

I am interested to start GA review of Street Children of India. but, before that I want to learn are you regular in Wikipedia these days? Since there are not too many editors in that article, so, if you are unavailable too, it'll be very difficult to continue the review if you are busy too (specially after reading the article twice, I feel, some changes are to be made in the article, which needs a discussion in review page). I have not started review still. You can reply in my talk page! --Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 19:54, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi! Yes, I am regularly on Wikipedia, so please start the review if you are able! KiaraDouds (talk) 19:03, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

Sandbox

Hi Kiara, great job with the Street children article. Can I go ahead and delete the sandbox page? — Ganeshk (talk) 05:25, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

Yes! Please do! KiaraDouds (talk) 01:54, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

I have cleared both the sandboxes. Feel free to use them for new articles. — Ganeshk (talk) 02:34, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

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