User:Aerobison2/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Media literacy

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this topic because it is so foundational to this course and I was curious to see what information was available on it and how it was presented. My initial impression was that it was well laid out, it had a wide range of information, and it was well cited. I was wondering if it could use additional images to exemplify some ideas, but perhaps that isn't necessary. The other thing I noticed was that a discussion was created to merge this page with other potential pages such as information literacy. I think this idea is supported by their "See Also" section. Some pages which are included Digital Literacy, Information Literacy, and Information and Media Literacy.

Evaluate the article
I think that the leading sentence is good but the overall lead section is too wordy. It is repetitive and the term media literacy is a bit overused, which is somewhat ironic since that is the subject of the article. The first two sentences introduce the overarching ideas of media literacy but they don't really match with the content of the page overall. I think that a better header for this page would be Media Literacy Education because that is all that is covered.

The tone seems to be professional and neutral. As for the writing style but I find the article a bit too wordy at times, especially for a Wikipedia entry. They included information about how media literacy education was being addressed in different areas but the Middle East had only a very short section. Notably missing was any information on any countries from either South America or Africa. There was no explanation or reasoning for why they were not included.

The sources do come from a wide range of sources. The links seem to all work. Many of the articles come from scholarly databases but they are behind a paywall so you would need to belong to an organization or university that has access to them or be willing to pay for access. The sources for other countries do seem to be coming from the countries themselves. Which made it difficult to analyze all of the sources since I only speak English. Of the sources, I could read they seem to be from reliable and trustworthy organizations.

The Talk Page for this article shows that it is part of WikiProject Education and WikiProject Media. In both it has a high importance setting and a C-Class rating. A lot of the discussion is about how much copyediting needs to be done, how many sources are missing, and where more information needs to be added. Overall, there seems to be quite a bit of frustration with how much editing and changing needs to be done on this article including the tone. as I mentioned before.

Overall I think that this article could use some adjustment. I think the suggestion that it be considered for merging with other information literacy topics be considered seriously. No one seems to be updating it regularly and the last significant edits were several years ago now. Also, as I stated at the beginning my major issue with this page is that I don't think the title is accurate, or at least not anymore. This whole page is just on media literacy education across the globe and I think the topic goes well beyond that now.