User:Gobears12/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Women's Equity Action League

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article is somewhat under-developed in length and form, and contains statements that could be better worded or cited. The topic also merits more detail, as WEAL was a national organization involved in litigation that is well-documented elsewhere.

Evaluate the article
The article lacks much detail on any one action WEAL was involved in, and the article has little structure, containing only a lead section, a "history" section, and a list of WEAL presidents. Furthermore, there is some disagreement on the use of terms like "conservative" to describe WEAL's membership on the talk page, and this is emblematic of a pattern of underdeveloped anecdotes throughout the article's text. For example, internal conflicts within WEAL and it's relationships with other women's organizations, such as the National Organization for Women, appear to be important and could merits more explanation. More detail in the article text could remedy a number of issues, such as the use of charged language like "radical" and "controversial" with little context, the lack of a useful structure to the article body, and minimal detail on the most important court cases in which WEAL was involved.

This article could benefit from being broken into sections on the origins of the organization, their position in the women's movement and the litigation they were involved with in order to better structure both the article overall as well as the individual paragraphs within the text. Breaking up into sections could also facilitate adding more detail across the article, which would significantly increase the utility of the page.

The sources appear to be well-cited, incorporating newspaper articles from the time with more recent accounts of the topic. The sources appear to be credible, neutral, and diverse.

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