User:Hradermacher/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Sexual consent in law

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It was something I was interested in but also something that connects to reproductive justice. Consent is something that is so black and white on paper but it seems that in the justice system of the United States it is blurry and not consistent.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead section: The lead section is very well written with an introductory sentence that is clear on what the article is about and the lead sections first paragraph tells the reader what the article sections will cover. The lead section is straight to the point and not overly long or too detailed and only includes information that is covered in the article.

Content: The article is relevant to the topic by covering sexual consent laws in countries around the world as well as specific states in the U.S. The content is up to date with additions to sexual consent laws that were updated in 2020 and was last edited on February 5, 2021. I did. not feel that there was any information that was missing and I did not feel that any of the information was not warranted to be there, everything was well written.

Tone and Balance: The article was written unbiasedly and was only stating factual information and pointing out specific laws that were written in states and countries. This was not an opinion article and more of a fact based article to inform others on consent laws around the world and highlighting those with the most different laws. I did not feel as though there was any opinion or ideas that I could possibly be persuaded to believe or think differently on.

Sources and references: There are 93 sources and references that are used and they are all credible and majority of them come directly from laws written. The sources are as up to date as they are able to be, some of which were added in January of 2021 as laws have changed and this article has stayed very up to date and not a single thing in this article was written without a credible source to back up the information. I didn't think that any of the sources were random sites and of the couple that I checked, they were all working links that opened to the appropriate pages that they were intended to cite.

Organization and reading quality: This is written as easy as laws are able to read. This broke laws down to being easier to understand without all of the law jargon that is typically used that would force many readers to stop and have to google words too often. The sections were broken down extremely well making it easy to find whatever you're looking for in the source quickly and there were no noticeable grammatical or spelling errors seen.

Images and media: All images and videos are placed in an appropriate section with captions that make the images and video easy to read, look at, watch, and understand. They are appealing, however two of the photos are blue and green possibly making it difficult for those who are color blind to read and understand.

Talk page discussion: I did not see any active discussions, however they were a part of 8 wikiprojects that are all closely related to the article topic. The article has not yet received a rating on quality or importance scale.

Overall impressions: I think that overall, this article is well written with no bias and it is informative with clear concise points and sections. The strengths of this article include the fact that it made law easier to read and understand, even in other countries. The only weakness I spotted was that the photos could be hard to see for certain people, but they were placed and captioned appropriately. This is a very well developed article that is up-to-date making this a better source of information with the ever changing laws around the world.