User:Chemqueens/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because I want to further explore how botanical gardens today, especially in Europe, exclude the contributions of indigenous groups and the history of colonialism. For example, the Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh displays many paintings and drawings of the plants, but gives no contribution to the artists who made them.

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.)

The lead does not include an overview of each section, although it is concise and easy to understand. It does not address topics related to historically underrepresented populations, which I believe is relevant to this topic. It only provides the contributions of white male "residents" or "staff" who worked at the garden and does not mention the original locations of the plant collections, as well as the impacts on communities who held these plants. Although it's neutral, it's balanced towards one viewpoint and excludes the garden's history of "plant colonialism." The garden has even recognized this, which I also think is important information to include. The sources appear to be very informational, but many of the sources are based in Edinburgh, especially the catalogues of plant species (which makes sense for the article). Not all of the images seem to be cited, and I think the main information to include to this article would be about the garden's role in colonialism, imperialism, and exclusion of indigenous role in finding these plants. Overall it could be developed and expanded on more.