User:Alexis Elliott/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Femicide: Femicide

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.)

The talk page regarding this article is very contentious and the page itself has been flagged as having multiple issues. Femicide is an important concept and one that I believe not a lot of people are familiar with. I think an edit to this article could help improve the page overall and provide people with more information regarding this critical topic. There are some sections in the article that I believe need to have more information included or be removed as they seem out of place and not directly related to the overall topic. This article does provide some useful information and works as a good starting point, but there are some revisions that need to be made for the article/page to be as affective as it can be.

Evaluate the article
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Content:

The page does highlight some important topics and provide useful information but I think a lot of the sub-sections require more attention and detail. The lead is nicely detailed and grabs readers attention, quickly explaining why the topic is worth knowing about. The article provides a broad overview of the topic and how femicide is occurring/taking place in countries across the world. The breakdown of femicide within certain countries could become a more detailed section to provide readers with a better image of how femicide is truly taking place in those countries (ie: the European section needs more information regarding its country breakdown). The legal solution section is useful but it might be nice to have a breakdown of court cases that have taken place across the world to illustrate how various states are dealing with femicide related issues and what still needs to be done. The page overall provides a good starting point for information regarding the topic of femicide but more detail is need within certain sections for the page to be truly effective.

Images and Media:

There is limited images used on the page (only three) and one of them is a graph representing victims of femicide in Europe. The two more colourful images both represent Chile and because femicide is a global issue having a more diverse representation of images could be beneficial to help people further contextualize the information. The images that are presently used do include useful captions and detail what is occurring in the image. Images can be useful to grab the readers attention but I think the images that are presently be used are too small and run the risk of being passed over. Overall, the page could benefit from having more images on it.

Overall Impression:

-The article clearly states that it contains multiple issues and is in need or revisions/edits being made. The section of Europe is detailed regarding Europe overall but the broken-down list of countries below Europe as a whole require more information to be relevant and useful. The film section of the article at the end seems out of place, it needs more information to allow readers to understand why it is being included in this context overall.