Talk:Great European immigration wave to Argentina

Too much opinion

Not based in fact. 96.21.20.218 (talk) 10:08, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Latin American Politics

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2023 and 9 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Arichy02, ManFitz, Wedls, Bebbly (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Aswanson29, CheechCol, Colewill110, YeOlCo, Ochand23, Mariririhanna, Wevington, Bhowmanyusernamesdoineedtotryb.

— Assignment last updated by Heatvan (talk) 15:57, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

New "End of Wave" section

We felt that while the original author alluded to some of the reasons why the immigration wave ended, we wanted to make this information clearer. We also allude to many of the causes of the end of the wave in our "social" and "political" subsections. Having a new section makes locating this information easier for the reader and adds breadth to the article. Arichy02 (talk) 13:53, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Updated Causes Section

We found that the causes section had some good information, such as including references to the Constitution of 1853 and talking about some of the reasons immigrants chose to go to Argentina. However, we felt that to make the information clearer the section should be broken up and include more factual information. We also re-worded and cited claims made by the original author to improve the quality and correctness of content. Arichy02 (talk) 14:22, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

Additions to Article

Added a "Political" section to the causes section to specifically outline influences of immigrants in that area, highlighting the union and anarchist presence. Prior text in the article relating to political impacts isn't sufficiently cited, so added new writing and imbedded links to all of my sources. Bebbly (talk) 07:07, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

The original author's chart on the origin of immigrants is informative and uses a trustworthy source of the National Directorate of Immigrants. We wanted to build on this by adding a "Demographics" section to the impacts to show how the immigrants of different countries affected Argentina's population demographics. Demographic impacts were also not addressed by the original author. Arichy02 (talk) 03:55, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

We added a "economic" sub-section to impacts. The original author alluded to this in their section with "the liberal policies implemented by the Argentine State at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, allowed the country to become rich and prosper at the time. In fact, as a direct result, the country experienced the highest economic growth in its history." We felt that the article benefitted from this information, but wanted to re-word these claims for clarity and find sources to back them up. Arichy02 (talk) 16:56, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

We've incorporated a cultural segment to discuss the influence of diverse cultures on Argentina. This section provides a brief yet comprehensive overview of the country's melting pot.

We've included a social section that delves into the treatment of minorities and indigenous communities, as well as the emergence of a new middle class and its impact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ManFitz (talk • contribs) 23:59, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Fixed broken citation link for reference 3. Arichy02 (talk) 13:57, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Removals to Article

Removed original Causes section. This section was disorganized and needed more citations. Although some information was correct, such as the Constitution of 1853, the information was not presented clearly. The section also contained irrelevant information, such as details about Otto von Bismarck. See above for comments on what we added to this section. Arichy02 (talk) 13:53, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Removed a paragraph under the impacts of immigration section because the writing didn't clearly relate to the article topic, instead making broad descriptions of the country without clear causal logic. The opinion based claims within the paragraph were not substantiated by sources. Bebbly (talk) 07:13, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

After finding plagiarism issues with the few citations this article already had (original author improperly paraphrased the auto-translation of a Spanish BBC article), I had to remove a large amount of content from impacts and may continue to find more in the future. Bebbly (talk) 14:49, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

Removed content from impact section. There was strongly connotated language about the political beliefs of different groups without any cited claims, and I don't have sources that could quickly fix the error. The writing also felt more like a narrative than an appropriately informative encyclopedia entry. Newly added content worked to rephrase and use substantiated evidence to get many of the arguments from this original writing across. Bebbly (talk) 05:26, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

Rewrote the Lead Section of the Article

Rewrote the Lead section of the article for clarity and tonal and grammatical consistency. Kept the general idea of the content the same, but added citations and context where it was needed and added more about how the wave came to its end and its lasting impacts on Argentina today. Wedls (talk) 22:14, 3 May 2023 (UTC)