User:Amberzsimmo/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cuisine of New Orleans

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My class is about New Orleans in relation to text, so when I looked up "New Orleans text" in the wiki search bar I got a lot of suggested articles. I picked this one because I love food, and I know New Orleans has a rich and diverse history, and so does the food. The food is often times seen as a reflection of the city.

Evaluate the article
The main parts of the article tells the history of New Orleans and how it influences the food. Most of the article though, is just lists of the foods, side dishes, and desserts that have New Orleans origins. Each thing that is listed however, is connected to another Wikipedia link that takes you to a page about that dish, respectively. As far as I could see, there was nothing out of date, since it was mostly just history, but the dishes had brief descriptions of the dish, and what was in the dish but not too much details. What I thought was interesting is how the dish's descriptions didn't say what culture influenced the making of it, considering how the bulk of the reading was about the history of the city and how the history is reflected in the food. The article is fairly neutral and covers all the cultural impacts of the city equally, and there is also no viewpoint to the page. The citation links work well, but I feel like the editor/creator of the page used the links as a way to not really talk about the dishes in depth and expected the reader to click every link that they needed/wanted to know more about. Again there was no claim to this but every source does support that the dishes and desserts are originally from New Orleans and/or inspired by the many cultural influences of the city. Most of the sources are other Wikipedia pages.

Talk Page

The talk page for this article had little to no interaction on it, which was disappointing. It is apart of WikiProject Food and Drink (C-Class Mid-Importance), WikiProject Culture (C-Rank Inactive), and WikiProjects United States/Louisiana/New Orleans (C-Class).