User talk:Bernice Matos/sandbox

Article evaluation: Favela

The article is neutral for the most part, although at times it seems the writers appears to take sides that one event led to another and it seems the the writer thinks that this is why favelas are the way they are. The writer appears t be very knowledgeable about what events led to favelas and what they are today. I think the view points in this article are fairly represented with facts and history which gives readers a clear understanding of what favelas or slums are and how they developed. The writer also focuses on how the slums grew due to factors like people moving to the big city but with little money to afford big city housing which also contributed to the favela growths.

Yes all the links in the article do work and the link sources appear to have plenty of information to have the reader understand whats going on and relatable to the article. For the first few references for the sources nothing was found when clicked on it and but had some reputable sources from universities, publish academic books. One of the sources supports the number of people living in poverty and also what is considered poverty. Yes this article has reliable reference to back up the facts being stated in the article. The information for the references come from the Brazilian institute of geography and statistic, Brazilian history magazines, online newspaper. Yes it appears that the sources have come from programs being implemented to help or even address the poverty level in favelas. The books references from university I didn't get to open but from the book titles I assume that they provide facts to help university students about the issue at hand.

In the talk part of the article there seems to be native Brazilians that either grew in Brazil near a favela and edited or clarified in the article the difference between slums and favelas. Then there is another person who talks about slums, shantytown are all classified under the umbrella of being favela. Another person states in their comment how in this article talk about the negative impacts that favelas have for example how they are illegal and this leads to people committing crimes and so forth. I am not sure that this article is part any wiki projects as the people editing are individuals with prior knowledge of Brasil that have a decent understanding on the topic. This topic I would say relates to class in that its based on social economic class and how people moving from one area to another in the search of self improvement moved to rio and end up in what are today known as favelas. In wikipedia this subject matter is describe to large extent with different components being mentioned that led to this " social and economic problem". Bernice Matos (talk) 17:39, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Bernice, Have you looked at this link?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity I'm not sure how your article is different from this one. You could add to this one. Cassell04 (talk) 01:10, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Overall this article is well structured and is looking very promising. It appears in your contents that items 2.1.2.x could be standalone topics (i.e change 2.1.2.1 to 2.1.3). I also suggest under section 3 to add a section on NGOs in addition to the UN (IGO), you could also talk about inefficient use of water too. Your use of source material is very strong as the citations are from reputable sources, well done. NateFlauto (talk) 23:31, 16 October 2018 (UTC)