User:Gigiberry/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Fast fashion

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 chosen this article to evaluate because it's an environmental problem that is not discussed upon to the public despite there being many research that shows fast fashion being linked to environmental impacts and injustices. On the other side, there is an ethic to fast fashion that allows low income communities needs to afford clothes that are new and trending. Therefore; I think its important to show multiple perspective on fast fashion contributions and giving the public an opportunity to form their own opinion about fast fashion. My preliminary impression of the article is that it has a lot of good resources on the facts of fast fashion, but there are improvement needed such as some sources need to be reliable, and some make bias claims.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section- The lead is concise. It discuses what fast fashion is, while giving details on what type of business it operates on with examples. There was no information that wasn't relevant to the the topic of fast fashion.

Content- each section of the article is related to fast fashion, with only one section, such as slow fashion counter should be be under sustainability rather than concept because it is more of a solution against fast fashion rather than the concept of it. Each concept is up to date from sources as recently as 2018 to 2021. There is a lack of information on how fast fashion is interconnected with low income communities.

Tone/Balance- There is some neutrality of it when discussing the history, concept and strategies of fast fashion. It is bias when discussing fast fashion as a negative concept to impacting the environment and raising concerns with labor workers.

Sources/Reliability- There is an issue of reliability as some of the sources come from fashion magazine and press articles. However, there are a mix of primary and secondary sources. Some sources comes from research paper that backs up a known fact; others are newspaper and journal articles that discusses the topic of fast fashion.

Organization/Writing quality- The Wikipedia page on fast fashion is well written to little to non grammatical error or spelling error. It is also well organized as it is broken down to the the main points of fast fashion

Images/Media- the images and media are well captioned, and adhere to wiki's copyright regulation. They are well placed into their sections.

Talk Page- There is discussion of lack of neutral tone throughout the article and sources listed as not reliable.

Overall impression

The article does keep it consistent in talking the topic of fast fashion and keeping their main points information relevant. There is a lot of good resources on the facts of fast fashion, but there are improvement needed such as some sources need to be reliable, and some make bias claims. I would say the article is underdeveloped as there could be more neutral tones throughout their main points and some statements be citied by the sources they are founded upon.

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