User:Gyc6836/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Name of article: Janet Jackson as a gay icon
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I decided to this over the article I chose because I've never heard about Janet Jackson being an icon for the gay community and wanted to get some knowledge on why she is looked up from them.

Lead

 * Guiding questions

The very first sentence tells us who Janet is which is for the people that do not know who she is. After that, it slowly explains that her music is the reason why many people in the LBGT community calls her an icon to them, so I think the sentence does a well job explaining the topic very well. In some ways. The lead does have her album that made her be considered this icon and the AIDS funding, but does not mention once about any LBGT movements she has done before. The lead did have a lot of information,but everything was mentioned in the article. I do not think that the lead is overly detailed. It was straight to the point and only went into detail in the section of the article.


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Content

 * Guiding questions

The article's content is relevant to this topic. There is no information that seems to be out of place or looks like it does not belong here.The content in this article is up to date and everything mentioned in it is relevant to the topic so no there is no content that seems it does not belong, or any missing.


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
The content in this article to me was very educational. I never knew that Janet Jackson did these historical things that made her be looked up on. It helped me understand why she is very well known as well.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions
 * The article is very neutral and it seems that the article does seem just to be biased on how Janet is looked up as a gay icon, but that is the main subject of this article.There was an album and her love for AIDS charities that were said in the article that made her earn the title "gay icon" because of her deal lyrics. I feel like the album "The velvet rope" was focused on that her contributes to AIDS charities was not talked about a lot. This article is trying to persuade the reader that she is a gay icon so yes I think the article is trying to make the reader think from one position or away from it.


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions

There are many facts when you are reading the article and all of them are backed up with secondary sources so you can understand that topic more in depth. All of the sources reflect on this topic as Janet being a gay icon. The links provided in the article work and the some of the sources are not current, but most of them are.


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Organization

 * Guiding questions

This article is short, but straight to the point. It mentions all of the achievements that made people think she is a gay icon in a short but very educational way. The way they organized the achievements is very well organized Some things that are wrong in the article is the use of quotation marks throughout the article.


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions

The only image that was visible was a picture of Janet herself and I think there should have been more pictures than just her. This picture is located at the very top right corner and you cannot miss it since it is the very first thing you will see. This one picture is captioned with just her name.


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions

The conversations are just helping out on how to make this article be better and have links working properly. As of right now, this article is currently a good article and is part of 3 WikiProjects. I think it is very similar in class.


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions

The overall status is a very good. The strengths of this article is the biography of Janet and how well it is backed up. Some things that can be better is adding some more pictures to this article.


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

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