User:Gek21/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ableism

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My group for our class are looking into "internalized ableism" and we wanted to look at this page first in order to determine whether it was a good fit to just add to or if we should create a whole new page.

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 article has a good lead section and describes the concept of "ableism" well. There may be some missing content on the historical section in regards to examples of ableism in the United States. The fight for the ADA and disabled activists could be expanded upon in greater detail to highlight the difficulties faced advocating for disability due to the prevalence of ableism in society. The tone is neutral and balanced and crucially explains a difficult topic in a level manner which makes it easy to consume and learn. It does not blame or implicate groups in society as perpetuators of ableism but rather explains historical context that has contributed to it in a factual and unbiased manner. The healthcare section is well fleshed out and contains recent examples of ableism including those from the COVID-19 pandemic era. I think the sources are good and the ones that I tried out worked. I think they are of the academic caliber that is requested but also provide marginalized perspectives. The article is well organized but the issue that we are debating is whether or not internalized ableism warrants its own section or even its own page because of the magnitude it holds as a topic when disabled perspectives are concerned. The talk page is a little bit limited and mostly contains conversations about refiling of the article and funneling of different topics into the ableism category. The article is a level-5 high importance article with a c-class rating. I think that this article could use some cleaning up and the expansion of the "internalized ableism" section is also on my mind, but in general, the article is useful for people to learn more about ableism.