User:4theloveofAH/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating
Talk:Soca music

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen to evaluate this article because as a person raised in the Caribbean, I grew up listening to Soca music and I still currently listen to Soca music. It interested me to learn the history of a genre of music I love so much.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The lead introductory sentence is clear to let the reader know the topic discussed. The lead discussed the history aspect of soca but it does not include the rest of the article’s sections. The lead also doesn’t include any information that isn’t present in the article. The lead is concise and gets straight to the point of the topic.

Content

The article’s content is relative to the topic and the content only discussed soca music till the year of 2010 with Saint Lucia. There needs to be citations added to this article so that since it was last edited in August year 2022. The article addresses topics like the influence the French Creole had on Soca. For example, the article mentions Kassav which started in 1979 and Dominican, Haitian, and Guadeloupean music together to become “ Zouk Soca”. This isn’t talked about as much as chutney Soca or Padang Soca.

Tone and Balance

The article is a neutral article and there are no claims that are heavily biased toward a particular position. The viewpoint of "Afrosoca" is underrepresented because it doesn’t contain as much information as the others contain. For example, in the “Afrosoca”section, it discussed that this genre was created by Nigerian and Trinidadian individuals but in the “Ragga Soca”, it mentions an artist like Bunji Garlin who helped influence the Ragga Soca. The information for “AfroSoca” may be less than “Ragga Soca” because not many of the authors know much about that section. This article attempts to persuade the reader to listen to the different genres of Soca music if that is something the reader is interested in.

Sources and References

The facts in the article are backed up by a reliable secondary source of information. The sources are thorough because each section of the article helps to convey the history of Soca music. No, the sources are not current because it’s not updated to 2022. The sources are written by different authors and they do include individual historical individuals who influenced Soca music that are mainly in the Caribbean such as Bunji Garlin and Lord Shorty. The links that are included for references work.

Organization and writing quality

This article is written in a way it is easy for the reader to understand the information and it is broken down into sections so that each section has enough information to help the reader understand its information. The article doesn’t have any grammatical errors.

Images and Media

The article includes an image of a steel pan that relates to the section “ Steelband Soca” and it is well-captioned. The image does follow Wikipedia’s rules and regulations and it is shown in an appealing way by giving it some color.

Talk page discussion

The kind of conversation that would go on about how to represent Soca music would be what genres of Soca are there and how they are represented in each genre.Also, it can be images included that would help the reader further understand the information. When I visited the Talk section of the Wikipedia page, the rating for this article Start-class and yes it is included in WikiProjects like Latin America, Trinidad and Tobago, and others.

Overall Impressions

The article's overall status is a B because I think it has really good information on the sections but I do think it should give more examples of people in each section who helped influence each genre of Soca. I would say the article is well-developed but I think it would be completed fully if it had more pictures for each genre would help. For example, a picture of Bunji Garlin could help people put a face to the name of who they are.