User:Azjah.Glover/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Media manipulation

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I felt that it relates well to our course on social media and how it influences us. By looking at media manipulation, I can take a closer look into what it means by that and how media performs such manipulation among a large audience.

Evaluate the article

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

There was no distractions on the page as everything was relevant to the topic. The opening line got straight to the point, letting the audience know what media manipulation is and even providing the tactics associated with it.


 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

The section, "2.3 Photo Manipulation," might be a little outdated. It speaks of photoshop and it could be updated to show how social media has transformed that into utilizing filters. Even going into the main article, it does mention social media's role in this but only speaks of apps, like Facetune. This is recent but it could go into more detail on how each social media app (TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat) have their own variety of filters to manipulate one's picture.


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

The article does appear neutral as it doesn't agree nor disagree with any of the content regarding media manipulation. It only does what a good Wikipedia article is supposed to do, which is provide information about a topic without plagiarizing its sources.


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

The links to the citations are working! They either lead to an article related to the source or guide you directly to the article or whatever that was used. They also work well to support the claims made in the article.


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

I was actually interested in the Talk page as I noticed something about this article, which was the lack of media about a post on media manipulation. There is a supporting video for the advertising context, but that's about it. I scroll through the Talk page and notice that the section "pictures" discusses how there used to be three pictures embedded into the article, but they were not related to the topic. The editor who originally added the three pictures agreed that they did not relate and therefore removed them from the article.

There is also another section underneath named, "positive examples" where someone suggests that there should be examples of how media manipulation was used for the greater good. I thought this was a great suggestion as the article should not only focus on the negatives. Again, the original editor agreed with this and even provided an example that they could possibly include.

Overall, I believe this is a great article! There are technically no weaknesses in this article. Judging from the Talk page, it seems that the only thing that needs improving is just adding more content, which I agree with. One person commented how they could add case studies, which I think could really strengthen the article and show how this type of topic is studied and handled. Hopefully they will implement some of the topics discussed in the Talk section because I truly think it would benefit the article to just have more up-to-date content.