Tonydavis05

Peer review of stereotypes of African Americans

First off, let me stay that it's difficult to review your work, since it's unclear what you've done and what you're taking from the previous version of the article. I'll do my best here, responding to the material in your sandbox, and offering suggestions for how you will need to integrate it into the actual article.

Lead

Your version posted so far has no lead, so I can't comment on this. I will grade you based on the lead, so be sure your version follows these guidelines:

• Has the Lead been updated to reflect the new content added by your peer?
• Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
• Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
• Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
• Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Content

Your new content looks good.

Tone and Balance

Your tone and balance are good.

Sources and References

This is a major red flag. Where are your sources? You have paragraph upon paragraph of new information, but you haven't cited any sources at all. This is an essential pillar of Wikipedia, so for your final version, I would focus on adding those source citations! You should have not even a single sentence that doesn't have a source citation added after it. (Of course, if two or more sentences draw from a single source, you only need the citation at the end of those sentences as a group.)

Organization

The article is essentially a giant list, which is not the ideal style for a Wikipedia article. It's probably too late, but what would make this article A quality would be a more thematic organization -- rather than every single stereotype getting its own paragraph or more, you'd group them based on "stereotypes based on [X characteristic]" followed by "stereotypes based on [Y characteristic]." An alternative might be to follow the stereotypes through time and history. As of now, a bit list is worth maybe a B if you clean up the rest of the things I mention.

Images and Media

It should be relatively easy to find images to add to this article, no? There should be plenty of stuff in the public domain.

Overall impressions

Over all, I can see this being a B-quality article if you fix the major sourcing issue. The other things I mention would also help bring it even higher. But sourcing is essential! Abukun (talk) 20:19, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

Update:

As I noted earlier, it is very difficult to determine what you added to this article and what you copied over from the original version. I finally sussed this out by carefully comparing this draft to the version in the Wikipedia main space. My assessment will thus be based on the additions you have made, which are relatively minimal.

Lead: You did not add a lead, nor update the lead of the article you were editing.

Content: The part you added seems to be the first 5 paragraphs of “Historical stereotypes.” This adds what seems to be useful information, but it largely just replicates stuff that is in the article already in a new format that reads almost like something that was written by generative AI. I’m not saying you didn’t write this yourself, but without integrating your information into the article proper, and without adding source citations, the content is not usable on Wikipedia.

Tone and balance: While I agree with your paragraph about “the urgent need” to address these stereotypes, this sort of writing is not what Wikipedia does. Wikipedia does not make arguments, so you would need to remove this whole paragraph.

Sources: Here you cite only one source, https://blog.massmutual.com/planning/soaf-aa-findings. However, this source seems to make enough mention of African American stereotypes. Beginning with paragraph 6 and on, the article seems to just be a copy-paste of the one that is already on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_African_Americans.

Organization: The content you have added is well written, at least. But, again, it needs sources, to be your own work, and to be integrated into the main article to be usable.

As of now, I agree with other users that your contributions are not ready to be added to the main space. I hope you will return to this article and improve it sometime. Abukun (talk) 15:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Stereotypes of African Americans

I've moved your article to Draft:Stereotypes of African Americans. It seems to be an unattributed and poor copy of Stereotypes of African Americans. It is not clear what you are trying to do, sadly. BUt you should not copy text without attribution, should not duplicate subject-matter in WP, and should not launch obviously flawed work into mainspace. --Tagishsimon (talk) 22:16, 17 December 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Stereotypes of African Americans

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A tag has been placed on Draft:Stereotypes of African Americans requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to be an unambiguous copyright infringement. This page appears to be a direct copy from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotypes_of_African_Americans. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images taken from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition will most likely be deleted. You may use external websites or other printed material as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences. This part is crucial: say it in your own words. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously and persistent violators will be blocked from editing.

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This is, incidentally, being discussed at here. I think you're being let down by your course leaders :( --Tagishsimon (talk) 19:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Noting that I declined the G12 as the page is ineligible, however going forward please try to follow the procedure explained at WP:Copying within Wikipedia to help us adhere to the terms of WP:CC BY-SA and WP:FDL as you agree to do so every time you edit a page, thank you. 2601:5CC:8300:A7F0:105:1578:26D:6233 (talk) 03:25, 19 December 2023 (UTC)