User:Agraceb09/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Me Too movement

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The MeToo Movement is what my group is going to evaluate for our project. There don't seem to be many different pages that are related to the overall topic, so I think that will be something that might cause us trouble in the future. The MeToo Movement is important because it allowed people to bring light to issues that people push out of the public eye. At first glance, the page looks well developed.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section:


 * The introduction provides a good overview of the page. I think that the first paragraph could go more in depth but for an introductory statement, it is done well.
 * There is not an overview of the major sections, very few are mentioned and there are many that are not mentioned.
 * It goes over information that is not mentioned in the later articles. It specifically mentions celebrities who spoke out such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashley Judd and Jennifer Lawrence, who are not mentioned again in the page. It feels as though the names are put there so that people will be drawn in by their names, but there is no account of what contribution they have made to the MeToo Movement.
 * The lead is concise, but I would like for them to have mentioned what is spoken about throughout the rest of the article.

Content:


 * There is a lot of content in this article that I feel like could be broken up into another page. I think that it would be better to have a page dedicated to the MeToo Movement in the United States and one for the international movement. The Impact section is long as well and hard to navigate clearly.
 * Some sections have been updated in the past year. The MeToo Movement has not been reported on much in the past few years, so I think it is understandable that there is not much recent news on it. Most of the updates that mention 2020 are international.
 * From what I can tell, the page does a good job of covering a variety of content related to the subject. I think that it almost covers too much information, which makes the content overwhelming for a reader.
 * The article mentions many underrepresented populations, such as sex workers, minorities and those in prisons.

Tone and Balance:


 * The article seems to do a good job of presenting the facts of the MeToo Movement without trying to persuade the reader of convince them of a particular thing.
 * The one section that I noticed what could be seen as biased was under "Failure to address police misconduct." It has already been addressed on the page by others, but language is used that is not supported by evidence or citations.

Sources and References:


 * The article has many sources attached to it although there are a few places that still require citations or clarifications.
 * Since the MeToo Movement is still a relatively new movement, literature is still being written about the impact and history of the movement. Given that, I feel as though the page reflects a majority of what is available on the topic.
 * There are almost 600 citations from a variety of authors.
 * A majority of the citations of the page are from news outlets and they work.

Organization and Writing Quality:


 * The article is well written but the amount of information provided is overwhelming. I think it could benefit from having different pages for different topics or dividing the information into more subheadings so that it is more clear.

Images and Media:


 * The page has very few images or media, which makes it feel daunting to read. It would not make much sense to have a lot of picture throughout a page on the MeToo Movement, but I do think that it would help to break up the information overload and all the words that are being presented to the reader.
 * The best captioning is on the picture of Alyssa Milano. The others provide very little information or depth to explain why that picture was chosen to be included

Talk Page:


 * The conversations on the talk page discuss many of the points that I noted. Many notes have been made throughout 2018-2020 and a few in 2021.
 * The page is marked as a "Level 5, vital page."
 * It is not the subject of any Wiki Projects.