User:Delendaaest/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Non-binary gender

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 article because it is about a gender identity I have and I've read a lot about it from other sources. I was interested in examining what information people put about it on wikipedia and the types of sources they used, as well as the quantity of information on the page because the identity is less widely held than others. My first impression of the article was that it included more information than I thought it would but that some subsections included in it are seriously lacking information.

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 provides the general information someone who is unfamiliar with nonbinary gender identity would need to know while remaining concise, and the leading sentence includes relevant information and a useful link to the gender binary page. However, I agree with the talk section comment that having a sentence placing nonbinary identity under the transgender umbrella but also later saying that not all nonbinary people identify as transgender is confusing and that there needs to be some type of qualification to the first statement.

The subsections for the article, including different terminology for identities, the history of nonbinary identity, pronouns and titles, legal recognition, discrimination, symbols and observances, and population figures are all relevant information, but some of these sections are incredibly limited in the amount of information they present (including history and poulation figures, which are limited to five countries).

Overall, the article is concise, accurately (and sufficiently) cited, and does not use persuasive language. Images include different flags used by different identities under the nonbinary gender umbrella, as well as displays of flags at pride parades in other countries and a 2021 survey graphic demonstrating preferred pronouns.

On the talk page the main conversation as of late is the nonbinary umbrella discussion of how to relate the terms nonbinary and transgender. There was also a previous discussion about how exactly to define the term nonbinary. There is not a lot on the talk page overall, which was surprising to me given that the article is marked as a vital article which should be of high quality. The current rating for the page is C-Class, meaning there are large gaps in content and the picture the article provides is incomplete.

For future edits, the pages should focus on closing the gap in information it provides to the best of its ability (adding more statistics for more countries and a broader history of the origin of the identity, for a start). The page should also work to clarify how it discusses the relationship between transgender identities and nonbinary identities (completing some edits proposed in the talk page). In general it is difficult to find statistics on nonbinary populations because in many cases these are not tracked, but the article would be better if it mentioned instances like this instead of providing only very limited data where it is available.