User:Alexatechandculture/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gail Guthrie Valaskakis

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

It's a biographical article on another academic and professor who was involved in communications.

Evaluate the article
Lead:


 * Clear and concise introductory sentence
 * Includes brief description of the major sections
 * Doesn't include information not present in article
 * Lead is concise with enough detail

Content


 * Content is relevant to topic
 * Content is up to date
 * No content that does not belong
 * Deals with indigenous people, women, and indigenous women in higher education

Tone


 * Written in a neutral point of view
 * No heavily biased claims
 * No over or underrepresented viewpoints
 * No minority or fringe viewpoints addressed
 * No attempt at persuading reader

Sources


 * Facts are backed up by reliable secondary sources
 * Sources appear to reflect available biographical information on subject
 * The sources are current
 * Sources are written by diverse spectrum of authors including journalists, universities, and indigenous groups
 * There are not many peer-reviewed articles to replace news coverage. Peer reviewed articles were used.
 * Links work except for first one

Organization


 * Article was concise and easy to read. All information present was easy to understand. The listing of positions in the article wasn't as helpful to read through, but still something to include somewhere in the article.
 * No errors
 * Broken down into well organized sections, although section about time at Aboriginal Healing Foundation could be sperate from higher education work.

Images and Media


 * No images or media
 * No images
 * No images
 * No images

Talk Page


 * No discussions on the talk page
 * It is rated as a C-Class biography. It is part of the following WikiProjects: biography/science and academia, indigenous peoples of north america, women's history, media, canada, and women writers.
 * The wikipedia page did not talk much about her written works or projects, something that we would have focused on in class if we were to read work by Guthrie Valaskakis

Overall

Ideas this gives me for my article
 * Well developed information about career
 * Strengths are its great detail of career and achievements, and recognition of indigenous background
 * Including a picture or information about work by Guthrie Valaskakis rather than just a list would improve the article
 * Article is overall well developed


 * I definitely want to focus on contributions or work by Mary Bock that was done in relationship to an identity Bock has. It will help fill a content gap. Although I don't think the bibliographic list was the best way of organizing work, I do like the idea of having that information somewhere on the page so Bock can get credit for all the work she has done. Lastly, I want to make sure to include an image of some kind because Guthrie Valaskakis page was not as well developed as it could have been without one.