User:ENorth3/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Red tape

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I selected this article because it contains a subsection on administrative burden, which does not have its own article on Wikipedia. The related concepts of red tape and administrative burden can be used to evaluate the bureaucratic barriers women may encounter when seeking public services. They also provide frameworks for understanding how the welfare state exacerbates poverty and gendered violence.

My initial impression of this article is that it is brief, limited in scope, and does not sufficiently describe the gender and racial dimensions of red tape or administrative burden.

Evaluate the article
The introductory sentence concisely describes the concept of red tape. However, the lead section does not provide detail on the major sections of the article. Because of the article's "start" status, substantial improvements are needed to add relevant content. Most of the article sections refer to the historical origins and development of the concept of red tape, with limited discussion about how "red tape" is understood in different contexts; current examples include only Spain, Mexico, and Canada (with some missing citations). Though the content is reasonably up-to-date, more examples could be added to the section "red tape reduction" and the section on administrative burden could be updated with more detail. The article also does not address equity issues, which are critical to understanding the impacts of red tape and administrative burden.

In terms of tone and balance, the viewpoint that red tape should be reduced could be somewhat overrepresented. While this might represent the majority view, minority perspectives are not considered in the article. The overall quality of the writing is fair and neutral. The article includes citations to several key articles in the academic literature on red tape, though more recent review articles could be added. The two images included in the article are helpful and well-captioned, but they align with the rest of the article in over-representing historical development. Another image could be added to illustrate current issues related to red tape.

This article is part of WikiProject Politics and is ranked mid-importance on the project's importance scale. It is rated as start-class and the talk page includes some conversations about the unbalanced use of examples. None of the editors refer to equity issues, which indicates an important gap that could be filled based on our class discussions.

Overall, the article provides a decent introduction to the concept of red tape, but is underdeveloped. The article could be improved with more country-specific examples, a section on current debates, updated information on the relationship between red tape and government technologies, more detail in the section on administrative burden, and one or more sections on how red tape contributes to racial and gender inequality.