User:Csheng88/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ableism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article for a class, but chose ableism in particular because it is not a form of discrimination that many people take into account when discussing inequality and oppression.

Evaluate the article
This article has a great lead paragraph and describes what ableism is, as well as common misconceptions of ableism and its prime examples. While this article shows great specific areas of ableism such as history, sports, and media, it fails to go in detail for a lot of these topics and misses out on pieces of information that the audience might want to know. The fact that sports and media are the only two subcategories of ableism that this article explores is a bit questionable in the first place, so I would hope editors would add different industries and communities in which ableism is prominent, such as academia, politics, etc.. I also had a problem with the history section of this article. It included mostly nations and territories in the west, with a lot of detail in the section about America. This can spread false information about ableism in places outside of the western world, in which ableism is extremely prominent. For disability activists who are trying to combat ableism, this might lead them to ignore these problems and fail to provide the support that these other nations need. That is the major problem I had with this article. I believe that it is missing a lot of information which will be harmful to the disabled community. Another problem I found is that the section about "causes of ableism" could be expanded, as there might be more studies on these causes recently.

Other than that, I don't see any sources missing and the tone is generally neutral. The organization of this article is a bit questionable, and I will hope for more references to related articles within the article itself such as Disability and Hate Crimes and Disability and Poverty. I will also like the section on "types of ableism" to be in the beginning if possible. Overall, the biggest problem I have with this article is missing information, but it should be a quick fix.

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