User:Daalexandram/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Talk:Rape in the United States

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?

I chose to evaluate this article because I am very passionate about the research and opinions on rape in the United States. This is related to my group's potential project because we are planning to research the sexual misconduct in the film industry. I want to get a broad idea on how rape is talked about on Wikipedia in this country. It matters to me because rape is very commonly brushed under the rug or ends up with victim blaming. Women have to struggle with being alone and unable to report the incident because most people believe the assaulter. My first impression of this article was that the whole thing was based around the technical definitions, laws, and incarceration rates. There were not many stories and women's perspectives on the topic.

Evaluate the article
Everything in the article is relevant to the topic. The article covers all context about rape in the US and discusses demographics, numbers of incidents, punishment, and history. The data is missing recent years as the article focuses on the 2010s. Recent data and more information about the victims could be added. The article slightly underrepresents women and their experience with this topic. The article mainly covers the laws regarding rape and has less information in the section called "Treatment of rape victims." The main improvements would be to cover more groups of people and their experiences with rape, the consequences, legal action, and the support for victims in the United States. The article is neutral but has sensitivity toward to the topic because of its significance and trauma to some readers.

I checked some citations and the links do work. The sources are mainly fact and data based so they are not biased. The facts are all supported by a citation and these references are all from diverse sources. Some official sources include, "Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics," "United States Federal Bureau of Investigation," and other US governmental offices. There are also personal articles cited that express biases on the topic. The talk page consists of many ideas of how to include more sub topics and underrepresented topics in the article. The article is relevant to WikiProjects such as Feminism, Law, Discrimination, Crime, and Psychology but is rated low importance.