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Qui Nguyen
Qui Nguyen.

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 the article Qui Nguyen because he is an underrepresented theatre artist in the Vietnamese American community, and my assignment for WikiEdu is to write a Wikipedia article about underrepresented theatremakers either from scratch or add onto an existing article. This article matters because minority groups have been left out of the theatre narrative in the past, and freeing their voices is vital to combating the systemic racism and oppression in society. My first impression of this article is that it is a skeletal framework and representation of information that exists on Nguyen.

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: The lead contains a single introductory sentence, with no description of the article's major sections. The lead does not contain any extraneous information. The lead is too concise and needs several additional sentences.

Content: The content for Qui Nguyen's article is relevant to the topic and up-to-date, including a brief mention of the work he did on Disney's 2021 film Raya and the Last Dragon.

Tone & Balance: There are projects missing that Nguyen has worked on that need to be added to the skeletal article. Adding additional content to this article will help work toward Wikipedia's equity gap through representation of an underrepresented artist. The article is written from a neutral point of view, and although the content itself does not seem biased in any particular direction, the blatant lack of content itself shows a lack of interest or recognition in the Wikipedia community toward previously underrepresented communities. The article is bare other than facts, dates, names, and places. Alternate viewpoints are nonexistent.

Sources & References: The facts are not all backed up by sources, and additional sources are needed to cite accurately the information within the article. The sources are somewhat current, all but one having been published within the last 10 years. After some digging, I am not finding many peer-reviewed articles available to cover much more of Nguyen's history than what is already accessible in the article. 5 out of the 11 articles listed go to a 404 error page.

Organization & Writing Quality: The article is very concise, clear, and easy to read. Little to no grammatical or punctuation errors. Of the few sections listed in the article, they are well-organized.

Images & Media: There are no photos or media included in the article.

Talk Page Discussion: A comment about the need for diacritics for Nguyen's name has been posted. There is an "External links modified" section. Qui Nguyen is a WikiProject for WikiProject Biography (stub-class), WikiProject United States / Asian Americans / Louisiana / Louisiana Tech (stub-class, low-importance), and WikiProject Vietnam.

Overall Impressions: Overall, the article's status seems to be of low importance to Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I think that may be simply because of the lack of peer-reviewed articles available about the topic of the article. The Career section of the article is the strongest, with clear facts and titles of projects. The article could be improved if there were additional sources outside of Wikipedia from which to pull, so that the article could be filled out a bit from the skeleton that it currently is. I consider the article to be under-developed.