User:Huskyhero/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Khoja

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as my grandfather's family comes from this ethno-religious group. This article matters as it is a part of preserving history and properly representing an ethnic group that has been subject to colonialism and misrepresented to this current day. It is important to have these people's voices be heard and their stories remembered. My preliminary impression was that this group wouldn't have too much of it's history shared yet on Wikipedia. While some parts of this is true, there are also aspects of the culture and group on the website that I'm happy to see.

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
Right away the article does have a solid lead section. The introductory sentence does clearly describe the topic. We see that they tried to mention that this community has had historical roots in different regions of the world, but is lacking why they've had to travel to different lands and when they did so. The lead does not include a brief description of the article's major sections. There is no information in the lead that isn't in the article. I believe the lead is too vague and may need some more information on the historical background of the Khoja community.

Content
The article's content is relevant to the topic and up to date. There isn't any information that doesn't belong. It deals with an equity gap by being a source to learn about an underrepresented group, but there aren't specific topics as to how and why they are underrepresented.

Tone and Balance
The article is neutral. None of the claims seem heavily biased at all. No viewpoints are overrepresented though I believe that there is a lot of underrepresentation but that is most likely because people haven't wanted to put in the effort to truly explain the history of this community. There aren't many minority viewpoints being talked about in the article. The article is not persuasive by any means.

Sources and References
Most of the facts in the article are backed up by reliable secondary sources of information. The sources are thorough and come from many professional academic journals. The sources are current and written by a diverse spectrum of authors. They do not include historically marginalized individuals though this is because most of the people that had the privilege of researching on groups like this tend to have been anthropologists from Europe that were able to pursue such careers. Almost all of the sources are from peer-reviewed articles. The links are properly working.

Organization and writing quality
The writing is well-written and concise, clear, and easy to read. The article does not have any grammatical or spelling errors. The article is well-organized and is broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic.

Images and Media
The articles includes some images to help readers get an understanding of who the Khojas are. The images are well-captioned. The images do adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations. The images are laid out in a visually appealing way.

Talk page discussion
There are many kinds of conversations in the talk page. People are arguing about where the Khojas came from and what their historic roots really are. The article is rated start-class and is a part of 3 WikiProjects. The way Wikipedia discusses this topic differs then how we've talked about it in class, as there seems to be a lot of arguing in the talk page instead of being respectful to one another and having good faith. There isn't a lot of collaboration and seems to be a lot of people trying to express their opinion's without showing academic proof. Though oral history is important here as these are indigenous groups that have not had the luxuries of preserving their history in a more Western professional sense.

Overall impressions
The article's overall status seems to be upkept and looking pretty well with lots of academic sources to back up claims. The strengths of the article is definitely the use of citations and the pictures that have been shared. The article can be improved by discussing more about the history of the Khoja's, and their migrations to East Africa - as this is a huge part of their current culture and identity. I believe in some ways the article is well-developed, such as how it is written, and for having starting the representation of this group. I think that it is also underdeveloped as there's a lot more work to do in helping tell the history and story of the Khoja's with more information for the world to know.