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Article Evaluation: "Civil Rights Movement"

Questions


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
 * What else could be improved?
 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

This article is on a very extensive topic in American history, but everything in the article pertained to the socioeconomic, cultural or political implications of the Civil Rights Movement. Because this event occurred almost 50 years ago, many of the sources come from that time period, however this article did include applicable updates and new findings about certain events that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement. Because this is a large topic in American history with findings and documents that are still coming out, there is always a chance that there is missing information. I think that this article takes a neutral stance on the issue. The article devotes equal time to the major movements happening simultaneously (Martin Luther King's nonviolence and the Black Panther movement) and it also describes in detail the political activities of both major political parties. There are some sections towards the end of the article, such as the roles played by women in Civil Rights movement that could use more detail, as it is a very short section. The majority of these links work, many of the citations are for archival websites or US governmental records, which are good sources. Some of the links do not work or the website that they link to is clearly out of date and no longer maintained. There is lots of discussion happening on the talk page, mainly about standards for referring to certain movements and names and proper capitalization. There are 8 Wikiprojects linking to this article and they are all ranked as high-importance. The article is ranked as a level-4 vital article, but it only received a grade of a C from Wikipedia. Wikipedia discusses this topic in a very unbiased way and it focuses less on the greater complexities and layered reasoning for actions, instead it tends to view most incidents in isolation.