User:Fireiscrazycool/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mamie Till

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article to evaluate because I am working on a project and paper that is about the effects mothers had on the civil rights movement. Mamie Till is the first mother I researched.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is legitimate because it introduces Mamie Till in a complete but concise way. I feel like the first sentence could be changed to be better because it does specify context by saying the civil rights movement. The first paragraph should talk about what her activism consisted of for it to be more cohesive. As always, writing can be refined but the lead section is of okay rigor. Clearly, the content does connect to Mamie Till. One thing that is absent in the article is that the Emmett Till Anti Lynching Act and I think that it should be acknowledged because Mamie Till 's efforts eventually led to it's existence. This is a topic that is intertwined with women, mothers, and African Americans so I am not super surprised that the Wikipedia page is underdeveloped and not as updated as it should be. I would argue that the article is neutral. Biases are not brought to the forefront of the article. The article does not attempt to persuade the reader towards one position. For this Wikipedia page, the foundation is factual. When looking at the references, I see that there are reliable secondary sources. I checked a couple of the links and they work. In the bibliography, one of the best sources is "The Death of Innocence '' which is by Mamie Till. The article is well written. There is not a sentence I was struggling to read and there are no spelling errors. It would be beneficial to have a section about what Mamie's and Emmett's relationship was like before he was murdered. The article has only one image. The one image is captioned and follows copyright. There should be more images that are infamous to Mamie Till. More images would improve an individual' s understanding of the story of Mamie Till. On the talk page discussion, there is talk about how we, as writers of Wikipedia, should be more sensitive because it is about a boy who lost his life. Even though we are telling the story of Mamie Till it should not be dramatic because that can be detrimental to the seriousness of the article. There are few and infrequent posts on the talk page discussion which I would like to change. Overall, there is nothing obscure or outrageous about this article. More details need to be added so the article is more in depth. With more details, the reader will be able to delve into who Mamie Till was and how she strengthened the direction of the civil rights movement.