User:Crmaurik/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anowa

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen this article as it pertains to the course I am taking, but furthermore because it is one of the few I found when searching for my course texts with any existing content on its page. Despite having some information unlike other texts, what is there is incomplete or irrelevant.

Evaluate the article
Pieces of the leading paragraph provide relevant information pertaining to the overall plot of Anowa. It tells us that it is a play, who wrote it, and provides a brief summary. However, the overall tone of the lead appears to take an opinionated stance that favours the titular character, Anowa, over her husband due to Anowa's headstrong attitudes and beliefs in the play. The final sentence encapsulates this and includes irrelevant information that fails to relate to the text or its themes.

This article is not objectively neutral. The tone of the article, when discussing Anowa, appears to favour her more feminist (by modern standards) actions when it discusses how she acts in relation to her husband. Her husband is compared to the Devil in this article, but Anowa, despite being compared to a witch in Aidoo's text, has no negativity surrounding her name on this page. Any redeemable qualities of Kofi are ignored, and the tone frames Anowa as a heroine while ignoring the stubbornness explicitly discussed in the text. This page appears to attempt to sway the reader into sympathizing with one character over another.

There are no citations in the body of this work, and the references cite two sources about postcolonial plays and postcolonial African writers. Each source is relatively recent - on the cusp of 20 years - but neither appears to be properly utilized to back up what is presented in the body.

This article appears to show potential for good organization, but it needs some work and more information in order to achieve this. The lead tells us that this is a play, the author, a brief description of the plot, and some themes (which contain irrelevant information at this time), but the paragraphs are currently a little strange and may need work.

There are no discussions on the Talk page for this article, and it is classified as a stub. Right now, this article contains simply the basics, which are of course necessary in terms of strength, but its weakness lies in irrelevant information, and little information, as well as only containing a lead when it could contain much more.