User:GuerreSyn/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sex and gender distinction

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 to evaluate because it's one of the first topics covered in our class, about the distinction between sex and gender. This matters because as an encyclopedia, defining and outlining the boundaries of concepts is important for understanding them, especially for those newly looking into them. My initial impression was that it covered more areas than I expected, examining linguistic distinctions, how feminists differentiate them, and the history of where this distinction came about.

Evaluate the article
The lead section does a good overview of the article by leaving out irrelevant details and does so concisely. However, describing more of the later sections would give a better outline of the rest of the article. Mentioning the role of health agencies in defining sex and gender as well as the role of feminists in addition to how these distinctions work in linguistics would provide a better introduction into the article.

There is also a significant amount of the article dedicated to defining sex and gender itself, when the article is dedicated to the distinction between the two. Brief overviews of the definitions of each would suffice, and linking to each’s own Wikipedia article could cover the topic in depth as necessary. Also, adding more information as to how intersex and nonbinary people have impacted how others distinguish between sex and gender may be significant information, especially for current times where both are more recognizable.

The sources that have links do work, however a lot of facts lack reliable sources. Some sections, such as the Feminism section, have several facts that have the question of “original research?” or “who?” tagged, so they require a lot more information. There are also some that are listed as “needs update” or “citation needed”, and so there is a lot more work to be done to ensure that there are proper sources.

On the talk page, this article is listed as mid-to-high importance for several Wikiprojects, such as Gender studies, Sociology, and LGBT studies. Conversations about this topic goes about the concern I mentioned earlier, when there seems to be a lot regarding definitions of terms for the topics of sex and gender when the article itself is concerned with the distinction between the two, and does not yet seem to be resolved.