Talk:Safe Humane Chicago

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This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Eadams20, Bee 12, Tvtovo, NikL. Peer reviewers: EyesOnYou, Gsab2, JH 9526, Vbigau2.

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Comm206 Peer Review

Lead

The lead was concise and gave a great description of the organization.

History

I was expecting how the organization got started. I’m not sure if the quotes are needed, unless it gives more understanding to why the organization was created.
The second paragraph in the history section feels more like a summary of an article. I’m missing how it connects to the history section. I did learn from the entire section two things: Safe Humane fights against dog fights through education and against labeling dogs aggression based off the breed. Can this be written in a more concise way because those are great concepts?

Court Case Dog Program

I would break down the first sentence into smaller sentences. Something like this may read better, “The Court Case Dog Program was founded through Safe Humane Chicago in January 2010. They establish dog-friendly approaches to canines confiscated by law enforcement and entered into the court system. The program was created after an Illinois case of illegal dog fighting involving 37 dogs occurred.”
In the last paragraph, “Through the contributions made by Safe Humane Chicago the dogs were rehabilitated and adopted through their program.” I am not sure if “through their program” is necessary and may come off as redundant.

Community Outreach

This section was great. I might suggest breaking up the first sentence, but it’s not a big deal. ”Safe Humane Chicago's youth program prepares high school students on animal safety. The students later teach what they have learned to elementary school students.”

Lifetime Bonds

This should be included under community outreach. Is this a program where they often give dogs to troubled youth?

Veterans Advancing Lives of Rescues

Who launched this program?
I would consider rewording the first part and just describe what the workshop set to accomplish. Maybe something like this would work, “In 2015, Safe Humane Chicago and the organization of Veterans Advancing Lives of Rescues VALOR partnered together to create workshops that would help create an educational training class that benefited both court case dogs and veterans. Veterans were able to practice coping skills and social skills while teaching sociable skills that allow court case dogs become friendlier and better candidates to be adopted.”

EyesOnYou (talk) 13:29, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Review of Safe Humane Chicago

Big picture:

Overall, this article contains a good topic. The organization is interesting to learn about. The layout is easy to follow and does not look bad. However, one of the biggest things this article needs is rewording in some parts. The article sounds like a summary for an essay or a news article. Rewording some parts may give more of a business tone to it.

Lead and Background:

The introduction states what the organization is and does. However, the sentences are kind've a mouthful and could be rewritten. In the box template on the upper right side of the page, a mission statement from the organization could be used to give it more of an appeal.

In the background part of the article, it references dog fighting a couple times. The introduction paragraph does not say anything about dog fighting. The dog fighting information seemed to come out of nowhere after reading about what the organization does in the introduction.

Court Case Dog Program:

I believe that this part of the article is the strongest. It sounds more professional than the rest of the article and is interesting. In the 3rd paragraph and 1st sentence of this section, where the White Sox player is mentioned, "...did a public service announcement" could be rewritten to sound better.

References:

Several links did not work. The ones that did work are good references.

Overall:

Go through the article and rewrite things to make them sound more business-like. Some sentences are kind've confusing and don't sound like they belong on a wiki article. Also focus on small grammatical and punctuation errors. Overall, this article is a good start and an interesting topic.

Rachelernst88 (talk) 17:15, 17 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lead:

Very straight forward
Possibly improve wording towards ending to acknowledge the focus on "dogs"
No repetition present

History:

Potentially include a little more information on how the NP came to be
Partnership is definitely an important element which is included.....could add additional partnerships
No what/how are present
Could include statistical success

CC Dog Program:

Slight confusion w this insert, possibly add some additional associations.
Chicago White Sox player info interesting, could use shorter/clearer example of this
Chicago Sun Times insert includes important statistic which could potentially be placed under another category

Community Outreach:

Great title, written very well
Possibly add the Veterans section to this area
How to get involved/ volunteer work

Lifetime Bonds:

Important information, maybe belonging to a different section
Examples

In Addition :

Sources are all reliable, no advertisement throughout the wiki.

Gsab2 18:44, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

History

I would like to see more information in regards to why this organization was created. There is plenty information about what the organization stands for and its goals along with who they partner with, but having more of a storyline on what motivated is creation would be insightful.

Vbigau2 (talk) 16:19, 17 April 2018 (UTC)vbigau2[reply]

COMM206 Review

History

Provide more aspects about the nonprofit and its foundations.

Provide more facts!

Was there a specific reason why it started? Background of the founder, I see you have the link to her Wikipage in the Intro, but adding some info about her in the History section makes sense to me.

Were there any other notable people in her story?

The second section of the history, is a little confusing to me.

The first sentence is good. But I think adding more information how the organization got started would be more beneficial for this section.

the facts already there are good if you can incorporate them into the history.

Court Case Dog Program

First sentence is very long, Break it up.

The word languished- seems a bit fancy. Is there a better way of putting this?

This section overall seems a bit repetitive.

I learned what the program does, but maybe provide some information on some more recent events.

Community Outreach

How do I get Involved??

First section is good.

Second section add dates if available

Statistics can also be helpful

*Lifetime Bonds

Good information, why does it have its own section?

Maybe add to community outreach section

* Veterans Advancing Lifes of Rescues

Maybe the first sentence would read better as- In 2014, Safe Humane launched the program Veterans Assisting the Lives of Rescues, VALOR.

The Program matches service members and veterans with rescued dogs, plus provides them canine training.

Is the training free?

I think any additional information would make this section. Possibly: Numbers? Statistics?

* Other thoughts

It is good that you have examples in each section to back up your info. But it feels like it is longer than the actual information provided.

JH 9526 (talk) 19:32, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]