User:Biancamsalgado/Evaluate an Article

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Latin music

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.)

I chose this article because ever since I was young I have always been a huge music lover. As a Latina, I want to incorporate my roots and this passion I have for music.

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:

Overview is good, it does not include a brief summary of what is to come. This could perhaps be fixed.

Content:

Content is good, I think that the content is very relevant to the context of the article. It discusses Latin based artists and Latin music as well as many factors such as history and different sectors of Latin music.

Tone and balance:

It is not biased, it is very much neutral. Some views that I feel are underrepresented are the 1980's section, and the 20's over turn of the century and how Latin music has risen in these past few years. Raegeaton is a type of Latin based genre that could be talked about a bit more. This is what Bad Bunny's music Genre is classified as. I could definitely mention the types of collaborations that new incoming artists are making. Some artists like a famous artist Carin Leon who is a regional Mexican artists has gone on to collab with Kane Brown an American country singer.

Sources and references:

These are some examples of the sources that are used in reference:


 * 1) "Julio Iglesias receives world record certificate in Beijing". Guinness World Record. April 2, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2013.
 * 2) Stavans, llan (2014). Latin music: musicians, genres, and themes. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. p. xviii, 838. ISBN  978-0-313-34396-4 . Retrieved October 30,2014.
 * 3) Morales, Ed (2003). The Latin beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin music From Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond (1. Da Capo Press ed.). Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press. p. xiii. ISBN  978-0-306-81018-3 . Retrieved September 10, 2015. Including Spain, there are twenty-two predominantly Spanish-speaking countries, and there are many more styles of Latin music.

After overlooking the long list of articles of sources that this article used I would say that I found that this article uses a mix of music media outlets such as Billboard, and Los Angeles Times, and NPR. Most of the articles listed are from about 10 years ago, however there is an exception of some date back to the 80's. There are also sources available that are from actual books, such as the second source I listed. Footnotes are also included.

Organization and writing quality:

The article is organized in a way that allows for the reader to follow it through a historical to present lens as you scroll down. There are not many grammatical errors.

Images and media:

The article does have several images of different male and female identifying Latin based artists, from different eras in the music industry. However, it lacks context to some of the newer artists. An implementation of different uprising artists can be edited in.

Talk page discussion:

This article was actually selected in 2018 for improvement. Some of the discussion over this article is in terms of why some European artists are included in here, as well as the fact that some people are in disagreement into calling Latin music a genre. I can perhaps go in and do some research and tweak these areas.

Overall impressions:

Start-Class, this article is considering developing but still in progress, meaning that as time goes by this article should be updated so it is not complete yet. Some of its strengths and weaknesses include some meaningful content but readers will need more. It has good content but more reliable sources can be implemented.