User:Ejpark0111/Evaluate an Article

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Alice Fish Moffett

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 while I was scrolling through one of the events held by WikiProject Women in Red it caught my interest as it hit close to home. As a Korean, a Christian, and a student of a Christian private school for years, I have always been taught about the male missionaries and never about the female missionaries that worked to bring Christianity to the Korean Peninsula. The male missionaries seem to be taking all the credit for which clearly was a collaborative effort. So when I saw the article of Alice Fish Moffett, a female missionary who went to Korea, I was really interested in knowing more about her which led me to choose this article. My first impression of it was that it was short but it seemed to have all the information that I needed to feel like I know her and of her accomplishments. It also made me wonder if the short length was due to the fact that there were not many sources about her which I understand as my Christian education at my private school only seemed to share about and have info on the male missionaries.

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The article is written in a clear and concise manner. The lead not only had a clear sentence about what the article was going to be but also a contents section that clearly categorized the article into 4 parts, Early life, Career, Personal life, and References. The lead was simple, it consists just of one sentence that very clearly gives a short detail of what the article was about. The article was about a person, so it was a short biography. I did not see any information that was unrelated to Alice Fish Moffett which the article was about. The article addressed topics related to historically underrepresented population as it is an article about a female missionary, which women are much underrepresented than men especially in fields of Christianity and Theology. The article had a very neutral tone and I did not feel as though I was trying to be convinced of anything, it just blatantly wrote out facts in a way that was easy to understand. The view point was very objective and did not lean towards particular ideas or opinions. There was a diversity in the sources as it contained historical sources as well as modern sources. It not only contained sources from historical newspapers but academic sources from places such as the Princeton Theological Seminary Library or the UCLA Online Archive of Korean Christianity. The article was also very good at linking other Wikipedia articles within the text so people can click on them to easily gain access to those pages. Because the article was a biography about a historical figure a lot of the sources were historical accounts and records and chronologies. The links to the references were all working and led me to the right places. The article was well written and divided into section to make it an easy read. The article is a part of WikiProject Women in Red and was in the scope of many other WikiProjects like WikiProject Korea and WikiProject Women's History and was rated as start-class meaning it is still considered to be a developing article. I think the article's strength lies in the fact that it was able to contain a decent amount of information even with a limited source of references and it does a very good job of widening wikipedia as it is about a subject who is in a underrepresented group within the field. Although the article is not considered to be complete and is considered to be developing I still think it was very well written. I think it can be improved as more and more people take interest and bring in sources from different places and even from Korea as the article was about a female missionary who served Korea and is strongly connected to Korean Christianity so the incorporation of Korean accounts about her might help in completing the article.