User:Ciaolee/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1
Article title: Hounfour

Article Evaluation: This article is quite small and listed as a stub page, so there's not much more than three paragraphs to evaluate it on. The lead section is strong as it identifies the subject in the first sentence and expands on it in the rest of the paragraph speaking on the priests and priestesses that make up the temple. Descriptions of the temple are sparce and could use more description as well as images to correspond with the text. The article was last edited in February of 2023. The information is backed up by the source provided. there are no discussions on the talk page, only interest to four wikiprojects: Haiti, African Diaspora, Mythology, and religion. The articles strengths are that it has a good foundation and doesn't seem to provide any bias or fringe viewpoints. the article could work on expanding content with images and verify content with more sources.

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Option 2
Article title Ovia Idah

Article Evaluation: This page is about Nigerian multimedia artist Ovia Idah. the article has some basic information in the lead section such as mediums Idah's worked in and locations his pieces have been shown. the biography section has three paragraphs detailing Idah's upbringing, employment and features at the Smithsonian. The last user edit was in march of 2023 and the talk page does not seem to have any discussions. The article is lacking contextual images, which are requested for quality improvements. The biography could also have more context, detailing specific works and exhibitions of Idah's, and where the works are now. There's a good number of refrences, nine to be exact, so compiling neccessary information from these sources would improve this page.

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Ovia Idah and Eture Egbede: Traditional Nigerian Artists, Philip M. Peek

Option 3
Article title: Tumba (Kongo)

Article Evaluation: This article describes Tumba, a style of carved funerary stone statue from the Kongo area. The lead section is concise and describes the articles topic. However, it could stand to briefly mention the articles other sections. The article was last edited October of 2023, so there's been information added recently but could still use more as the talk page is sparce. The content doesn't seem biased however the Historiography section focuses heavily on Robert Verly, a Belgian artist with the intention of preserving the crasftman ship of his aquired collection of Tumba. While Verly had good intentions setting up ‘social workshops for indigenous art’, this section should include more indigenous contributions. There's one image present but the page could benefit from showing a variety of these sculptures. The page could use more sources as there's only five but the article is not listed as a stub, so it's developed and on it's way to complete.

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Schweizer H (2014) Visions of grace : 100 masterpieces from the collection of Daniel and Marian Malcolm. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Visions_of_Grace/oLLsngEACAAJ?hl=en

Curnow, K. (n.d.). Chapter 3.7 Art and Death. The Bright Continent African Art History. https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/bright-continent/chapter/chapter-3-9-art-and-death/

Lifschitz, E. (1982). The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds. African Arts, 15(4), 72–74. https://doi.org/10.2307/3335819

Option 4

 * Article title Akan goldweights:
 * Article Evaluation: This article is describes the Akan peoples of West Africa's measuring system through symbolic figurines. The lead section is strong giving a thorough description of the subject and mentions what the rest of the article covers. The content itself covers the manufacturing, collecting, meaning, and dating of the weights and while it mentions the measuring system, I feel it could be improved with a full section on it. The article doesn't read as bias and there's plenty of images and sources however, 5 of the sources are by the same author and 4 of them are the same book. overall this article seems decent and well researched but there are some minor improvements that could be made. :
 * Sources:- Konadu, K. (2010). The Akan Diaspora in the Americas. Oxford University Press. :- Hewson, A.D. (n.d.) The Ashanti Weights A Statistical Evaluation. Journal of Archeological Science. :- Kouadio A.Y. (2018) Akan Gold weights: Values perspectives of a non-western cultural artifact. University of California.

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