User:CaydenCB/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Carolina Maria de Jesus

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this page because I am interested in Caroline as an author. I think reading her page will give me a good idea for what my article may end up looking like.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

- The lead section does a good job of giving an overview of de Jesus' life. As a whole is does an okay job of explaining her biography, but broken up into peices, the first sentence and first paragraph do not give a broad enough summary of her life.

- The first sentence is not a good summary of de Jesus. It does not mention any of her professional or social accomplishments. It does not function as a good sentence that clearly summarizes the article. It does not introduce any of the main themes or events of the article, nor does it provide an accurate description of the subject.

- The first paragraph is about half of a quick biography.

- The first section touches briefly on 3/5 main sections of the article, but it does not mention the most important ones (perspective and global impact). And it does not give proportionate attention to the large sections (the diary and her children). the summary focuses mainly on the early life part of the article that will follow, leading the reader to not expect much out of the section on her diary or the section on her children and will totally miss her perspective and global impact.

- The lead section doesn't include any extra info, but it does not include the necessary info either.

- The lead section is overly concise.

Content.

- The content sections are all very relevant to the biography and her achievements. - As far as I could tell the article was up to date and accurately reflected the current findings on her life. The page said that it was last updated on July 15, 22. And it included accurate information from as recent as 2019.

- The only content that I would suggest is missing is her impact on current afro-brazilian authors. There have been several dozen biographies written about her and much of contemporary brazilian literature pays homage to her work and her legacy, I think the article could have benefitted from including that.

- The article does deal with an equity gap. It focuses on a poor black woman from brazil and her life and contributions to african-american literature and politics.

Tone and Balance

- The article is neutral

- There was one line about her reasons for not getting married that seemed unsupported to me. There were no sources backing up the claim and it seemed a little presumptuous for the article to claim her reasoning. I don't know if that falls into heavily supporting an opinion, but it did seem to offer an opinion that is not well verified.

- I believe that the majority of the article represented the majority's opinion on de Jesus. When fringe or counter points were raised they were addressed as such and gave the reader sufficient explanation and they generally sited the sources well enough that the reader would be able to study both view points and decide.

- The article did not feel persuasive—except for the one line mentioned above.

Sources and References

- Most sections and facts were backed by several sources. The global impact section was a little scant on resources and in a couple places [citation needed] graced the page. there were a couple comments in her perspective section that also seemed a little like conjecture (mentioned above in tone and balance). but for the most part her biography was well cited.

- The sources are thorough and diverse, they do seem to represent the current literature on the topic.

- Sources are current, or if not, they are the source that the current literature references

- There was one author that was cited several times, but on the whole there is a diverse cast of authors, who represent many different viewpoints on the topic

- The only sources I could find that were better were her biographies and interviews with her and her contemporaries. But none of those sources work as a quick summary of her life and works, and so I think the wiki page is doing a good enough job. - Most of the links worked. One link cited a Brazilian government website and that one was unavailable

Organization and writing quality

- The article was written very simply and did not overcomplicate the story telling. I found it very easy to read and easy to understand.

- I did not notice any grammar or spelling errors.

- I think that the article is well organized. I thought that the section on her kids was a little long, but there are several other articles that describe the children and so I figured that the section accurately represents what is commonly know about them, even if it seemed a little disproportionate to the rest of the article. But other than that, it was very well organized.

Images and media

- the images and media included are nice, they are good portraits of de Jesus, but I don't know if they do too much to enhance the reading other than just put a face to a name.

- It would have been nice to have a photo of her published diary or of the manuscript.

- The article included a section of text which I thought was very helpful and important

Talk section

- There were not that many questions on the talk channel. One from 2006 seems to have changed the structure of the article and another modified some links and asked for help from other editors to double check that were working properly.

- It does not appear to have been actively worked on in the last 5 years.

- It is involved in the following wikiprojects: Biographies, brazil, and women writers

Overall impressions

- The articles strengths are in describing her family, living arrangements and her published diary. It does an adequate job of giving her biography but I think that it seriously lacks a description of her impact on Brazilian literature. I would say that including these effects would greatly improve the article. For now I would say that the article is well-written and an adewuate biography of Carolina Maria de Jesus.

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