User:Chckn nug/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Soul food

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate the soul food article because it is extremely relevant to this class. This article matters because it is highly informative and teaches about an important type of cuisine. My first impression of the article was that it encompassed a lot of different fields which is quite helpful when you want to do a deep dive into a topic.

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 section is pretty concise and it has a good opening sentence that tells the reader what the article is going to be about. It does not contain a list of the sections to come, but I think the intro works the way it is written because it is detailed and contains relevant information.

Content:

The article's content is up-to-date (2022) and is relevant to the topic. All of the sections are related to soul food and I cannot think of anything that is out of place or missing. The article includes information about several underrepresented populations.

Tone and Balance:

There is no bias that I could detect in the article. The author has written a purely informative piece that had a neutral tone throughout.

Sources and References:

There are 40 references in this article, but a lot of them are links to other wikipedia articles. However, there is still a significant amount of research that was conducted from outside sources. The resources are not very current, with the most recent source being from 2017.

Organization and Writing Quality:

There are not many, if any, grammar/spelling errors. The article is very easy to read and understand as well as being well-organized. The headings tell you exactly what you are going to read and they are important distinctions in terms of the information that they present.

Images and Media:

There are several relevant images that are present in the article, but the citation for the images is not provided.

Talk Page Discussion:

There is a lot of discussion on the talk page for the article. One of the main points of contention is whether or not soul food is "black food." I found out that the soul food article is a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. It is part of the following wikiprojects: African diaspora, Food and drink, United States, Indigenous peoples of North America.

Overall Impressions:

I thought that this was a well-written article with lots of useful information. I think that a strength of this article was the Health Concerns section because it was something that I would not have thought about including, but it is important knowledge. I believe something that could be improved is the Dishes and Ingredients section because the entire section is just a hyperlink to another wikipedia article. Instead, the article could be linked somewhere else and the section should be removed.