User:Everlark13/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Anti-Arab racism - Wikipedia

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 relates to the topic that I researched for the annotated bibiliography assignment. This matters because Anti-Arab racism is often conflated with Islamophobia even though not all Arabs are Muslim. My preliminary impression was that the lead section is too short and needs to summarize the key points better. In addition, the section on Western media could be expanded upon and give more examples of films that have a negative portrayal as Arabs.

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.)

Evaluating Content: Everything in the article did seem relevant and there was nothing that distracted me. There is some information that can be added to the lead section and the section about western media. The article does not underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations.

Evaluating Tone: The article is neutral and does not appear heavily biased towards a particular position.

Evaluating Sources: The links for the citations do work and the source does support the claims given in the article. Each paragraph does have atleast one citation besides the lead section. The sources come from a diverse array of authors and publications.

Checking the Talk Page: There is a discussion on whether this page should be deleted or not because some believe that Anti-Arab racism is not real or significant since it is the same thing as Islamophobia. It was ultimately decided to keep the article. This article is rated C-Class by Wikipedia and is part of the Arab-World, Palestine, and Discrimination WikiProjects. The way Wikipedia discusses this topic differs from the way we've talked about it in class because it only focuses on simply stating facts rather than giving an opinion or making connections.