User:Dellrums/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Censorship on TikTok

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I noticed this post does not represent an understanding of the significance that censorship has had on specific minority groups. I also noticed this article was written by a student and has multiple C-class ratings due to low-importance.

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 opens with a vague statement that does not encompass the significance of the article's main sections. The rest of the lead section addressed the topics that are included without much description. Some of the sources backing up algorithmic issues are national news outlets that only have insight from TikTok's community policies, which provides a limited analysis of the algorithm's behavior.

The majority of this article's content centers around specific instances of TikTok's political censorship, as well as censorship targeted towards black people, disabled people, and LGBT groups. The majority of the overview is pulled heavily from one secondary source. This article fails to include certain historically underrepresented groups such as Asian communities and Latinx communities who have reportedly faced censorship restrictions on the app. There is some meaningful content, but will not leave the reader entirely informed.

There are sections of this article that do not have a completely unbiased tone, however the majority of the article is informative in tone. The use of jargon is an area that needs improvement. The very last paragraph includes informal speech by referring to (presumably) right-wing white Americans as "Hicks".

The talk page included many suggestions to improve the article's focus/relevance. Most student-editors rated this article as C-class on the quality scale, and Low on the importance scale. I would argue that the topic of the article holds mid-level importance, with a lot more information needed. It is important to remember the ratings and scales are not absolute in how important the article actually is to its pertained topic. (In this case, it was African diaspora, LGBT studies, and internet culture.)

My overall impression of this article is that it has the potential to be more informative and well-rounded. According to Wikipedia's WikiProject article quality grading scheme, I would class this article as a Start, meaning it is in need of improvement but still developing.