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Wiki Evaluation

Megan Carlson

Emily Bruce

9/20/2019

Kate Chopin

In the Wikipedia article about Kate Chopin it seems to have a very thorough background and general knowledge about her. I think the editors have done a very nice job of talking about both her childhood, adulthood, books, short stories, and her writing style. I think that one thing this article could added is how much she is still continuing to influence feminism today and earlier feminist movements. It only talks briefly about how the US finally notice how powerful and accurate of a writer she is about her time period both with women and people of color. However, the article does a great job about talking about how ahead of her time she is and how courageous she was to write the way she did during that time period.

I think this article did a good job of being neutral. They seemed to be able to tell both sides of the story well without losing the goal of the article which was to talk about the life and important work of Kate Chopin. However, this article could maybe talk a little more about what life was like for women during this time period to help people understand the reason she was getting such negative feedback.

This article has a lot of sources and the majority of them seem to be very scholarly. They have a large date range which shows that this article has been updated a lot. All of the sources that I tried work and took me to the correct page. I think that this article is also has correct in-text citations. The article also has a very long history page which also shows how well update this page is. The talk page is not a rude page but their are a lot of complaints that are stated clearly. I think this is probably a good thing this way people can see them and get the problem faster. This article is also part of the Wiki Projects of Art and Entertainment, Feminism, St. Louis, Louisiana, Women’s History, and Women writers.