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 * Janet Abbate
 * We discussed Abbates book Recoding Gender in class, upon further inspection Janet Abbate's article is missing some information. More info could be added regarding her book, also her biographical history.

Lead

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 * Introductory sentence is concise.
 * Article describes her academic career and her research, both things touched upon in the lead.
 * Lead includes information in the article, but overall there is not a lot of information.
 * As above, lead is extremely concise.

Content

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 * Content is relevant to the topic.
 * Content is up to date.
 * Content is not necessarily missing, but it is underdeveloped.

Tone and Balance

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 * Article is neutral toned.
 * No heavily-biased claims.
 * No viewpoints over or underrepresented.
 * Article does not try to persuade the reader.

Sources and References

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 * All facts are backed up using reliable sources.
 * Sources are thorough, though the article is underdeveloped.
 * Sources are current.
 * Links are in working order.

Organization

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 * Article is clear, concise, and well-written,
 * Article does not have spelling or grammatical errors.
 * Article is well-organized and broken down into sections.

Images and Media

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 * Article does not have any pictures.

Checking the talk page

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 * No conversations happening behind the scenes.
 * Article is rated in the Start class, and is in WikiProjects such as biography/science and academia, computing, women's history, and University of Pennsylvania.
 * The Wikipedia page essentially covers most of the content we learned in class, it is that underdeveloped.

Overall impressions

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 * The article's status is Start-class.
 * It is concise and to the point.
 * It is extremely underdeveloped, more information on her book Recoding Gender would improve the article, as well as more content added to Abbate's biography.
 * The article is somewhere between under and poorly developed, it is a total of 8 sentences.

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 * Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback

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 * Link to feedback: Talk:Janet Abbate