User:Curacaoache/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.) I chose this page because we have used this in class as a reference to one of the few pages specifically about a lynching in Indiana.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section is thorough enough to give the reader an overview of the event that took place. The description of the incident could be more thorough based on Cynthia Carr's research for Our Town. There have certainly been enough books written with this event in mind that the information could be much more thorough. There is certainly more to the legacy than just the distributed and misused photo. A section on the legacy of the violence in Marion could be added. James Cameron surviving the lynching is certainly is a very unusual circumstance and could be highlighted and referenced to other anti-Black violence. This event should highlight that, although rare at that time, anti-Black violence was happening through other methods other than lynching.

The links in the article to other pages are functional and necessary. The extra reading suggestions are excellent. The external links are informative for further reading.

It is evident that Wikipedia needs more pages like this one to highlight the anti-Black violence that took place, not only in Indiana, but throughout the Northern states.

The talk page is quieter than I expected given the content.