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Evaluation for Femslash
Lead Section

The lead section of this article is the only content on the page. Some of the sources cited are dead links and outdated. Because of this, some of the content should be deleted.

Clear Structure

There aren’t any headings or subheadings. There is only a lead section for this article. The only image present is large image of the slash text symbol. A few examples are listed in the content, but it isn’t enough to support the article itself. These examples are outdated, and there are many more examples out there the article could use.

Balanced Content

The content of the article is scarce. The balance of the content can’t be assessed because there is too little to properly organize. It seems some of the content has been scraped up and gathered here.

Neutral Tone

The article generally takes on a neutral tone, but some of the sources are either dead or outdated, making the statement unreliable or biased. There’s talk about debates on whether heterosexual women write femslash, if femslash should be reserved for characters who are heterosexual and are paired with another woman, and if there are as many male writers as there are female. As an observer and reader of femslash, I think there are enough sources to provide the answers to these questions now.

Good Sourcing

A majority of these sources are cited from years ago, dating all the way to 2002. Because some of the sources come from online articles, they lead to dead links and should be replaced. I also believe that because the sources are old, they are less reliable on information and status of femslash now. Femslash is certainly different now compared to a decade ago.

Overview

The article has too little content, with sources that are unreliable, outdated, or dead. I believe it should be moved to a section under the Fan fiction wiki page for now, until contributors manage to gather enough reliable and updated sources to support the statements written on the page. From my experience of reading femslash, I think there is enough information to form an article. A suggestion I have right now is to provide an explanation of two very popular websites that host femslash.

Evaluation for Korean drama
Lead Section

The lead section is brief and concise, describing exactly what korean dramas are. A bit of information is given on their impact worldwide, cited with two sources. I would consider citing a source for Dae Jang Geum (2003) being sold to 91 countries.

Clear Structure

The content is organized and placed under several sections. After the leading section, it begins with how Korean drama started, the history of it, and then leads to the production, information about crews behind dramas, music used, television rating system in South Korea, interception of Korean drama both in South Korea and outside, and a long list of examples of Korean dramas.

Balanced Content

I would add more content to the section for Actors, because there are only three sentences under this section. I believe there are many notable Korean actors that could be listed here, some who have made a notable impact and have been written on by reliable sources. Also, the first sentence in the section is not backed by any citing and sounds a bit biased, using ‘popular’ to describe how the world outside of South Korea perceive leading actors in Korean drama.

The rest of the content seems relatively balanced, with ample information provided by reliable and updated sources.

Neutral Tone

The article takes on a neutral tone. Much of the information provided is stated without bias or attempt to convince readers to watch a Korean drama. The only issue I would take in regards to maintaining a neutral tone is to be careful with wording such as ‘popular’ or ‘famous’ without cited by a source and statistics.

Good Sourcing

Yes, the article has good sourcing. Because Korean dramas are mostly discussed by articles, many of the sources will likely come from those webpages, but they are reliable for the most part. There are also academic journals cited, such as the “Southeast Review of Asian Studies.”

Overview

The article page is strong, in my opinion. There weren’t many issues I found, and many sources are used to cite statements. The content is written without bias for the most part, and it describes much of the impact Korean drama has on both its mother country and the world outside of it. The only questionable content in the article is the section for Actors, which has scarce information and a missing source for a statement that would require one.

Edits for Korean drama
Although Korean culture has had a rough history with the LGBTQ community and LGBTQ people still do not have full rights in South Korea, Korean dramas have made a recent effort to include more LGBT characters in their storylines. This inclusion of LGBT characters into K-drama storylines has caused controversy surrounding these shows as homosexuality is still stigmatized in South Korea. Shows such as Seonam High School Girl Investigators, which depicted the first ever lesbian kiss in Korean TV history, received attention from the Korea Communications Standards Commission when complaints we filed in reference to a scene where two high school girl characters shared a kiss (cite south china morning post).

Other shows to follow suit in depicting same-sex relationships include Kill Me Heal Me, Reply 1997, Long Time No See and LIfe is Beautiful which all depict romantic interactions between men. Although progress has been made with the representation of homosexual relationships in K-Drama, transgender representation is still lacking. “In 2012, KBS Joy, an entertainment subsidiary of the national KBS TV, pulled the plug on a newly launched talk show aimed at the transgender community after just one broadcast triggered an outcry from conservative groups.” The only notable representation of transgender characters in Korean Drama was in the frist episode of the series It’s Okay That’s Love. Actress Lee El portrays Sera a patient who comes in for psychological treatment after being severely beaten for being transgender by her family. Instead of including openly gay or transgender characters in many k-dramas, characters will engaged in a plot device known as gender-swapping.

Gender-swapping is a theme in K-dramas that delve into LGBT aspects without obviously representing openly queer characters. Coffee Prince is a K-drama depicting a woman, Go Eun-chan, who disguises as a man in order to work at Choi Han-kyul’s coffee shop. Han-kyul falls in love with Eun-chan and questions his sexuality, in the end, accepting his feelings for Eun-chan regardless of gender. However, Eun-chan reveals herself to be a woman, and the question of falling in love with the same-sex is then resolved. You’re Beautiful is another K-drama in which a woman disguises as a man. Go Mi-nyeo must pretend to be one of the band member’s twin brother in order to maintain his position in A.N.JELL. Every member in the group falls for her, although one of them, Jeremy, is not aware she is a woman and believes he has fallen for a man.

Though k-drama shows are beginning to represent the LGBT community of Korea, it is still rare to find a show with an out character.