User:Hood.Ashlie/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Saint Alena

Why have you chosen this article to evaluate?
For 23FALL-IDS2002 - O002 Info Lit & Scholarly Discourse at UNO, we are contributing to the Women in Red WikiProject. I wanted to look at C-Class articles of women to see if there were any that caught my eye, and I came across Saint Alena. I was born and raised Catholic, and I am still a practicing Catholic, so I was intrigued to learn about a female Saint that I had not yet heard of. I figured it might help to find something that related to me and interested me to make the reading and evaluation easier.

Article Evaluation
This C-Class article is of interest to the Biography, Saints, Women in Religion WikiProjects at Low Importance. It was created in 2006 and a few of Talk page entries were made in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2017. According to the version history, the last modifications were made in 2022. It has been addressed that there were some issues with article quality, but it does not look like many Wikipedians have contributed to developing the article thus far.

The opening was only two sentences long and the lead sections did not provide a concise overview of everything that was covered on St. Alena in the article. The verbiage and sentence structure threw me off. I'm not sure what is meant by "if historical" in context of the first sentence, and the second sentence runs on. Also, the added detail about how "Forest, Belgium... is now one of the nineteen municipalities of Brussels" does not seem relevant to the topic at hand. A summary of the information regarding St. Alena's life and veneration across different parts of the world should be mentioned, since some of the foreign sites sourced in the References section are translated from French, Polish and Dutch and have slightly different interpretations of her story; also, some parts of the world designate St. Alena with differing dates to celebrate her.

References 7 and 14 do not have links to the source at all. References 3, 8 and 10 load to an error 404 page on the site it loads to, or the browser times out from not being able to reach the site. The other 9 sources (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, and 13) listed in the reference section work, either via archived Web capture or from the original link. Resources 9 and 11 are birth month and baby name sites that do not seem provide any information that pertains to St. Alena, her life, or her veneration.