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(Elizabeth Peabody)

I chose to include this article because we talked about it in class today.

Lead

 * The lead of the article is concise and provides a brief description of the article's major sections. The lead doesn't include any information that doesn't appear later in the article.

Content

 * There is some content that is missing. There is a heading that mentions The Dial, but it doesn't go into the specific things Elizabeth Peabody wrote for the publication. The Wikipedia article doesn't mention "Plan of the West Rosbury Community", a treatise from Peabody about what her ideal society would look like. This is important because it's a significant contribution to the umbrella of socialism before Marx and Engels even appeared on the scene.
 * A major plus for this article is that it mentions how Peabody fought for the rights of Paiute Indians. Native Americans are already a marginalized group, but I'd be willing to guess that most people haven't even heard of Paiute Indians.

Tone and Balance

 * The tone of this article was overwhelmingly neutral. There isn't really a point of view or position that is given higher weight than any other.

Sources and References

 * This article uses reliable secondary sources, however, the article doesn't reflect all the available literature on this topic. This article has no mention of "Plan of the West Rosbury Community." Despite the lack of depth, the sources are current and are written by men and women in expert fields. The links to these sources work just fine.

Organization

 * The article is organized well. It's concise, clear and easy to read. Part of that is because it's a short entry. In addition, there weren't any grammatical or spelling errors.

Images and Media

 * There weren't too many images. But that's understandable since Peabody lived in a time before photography was fully adopted by most people. However, if you're going to include only several images, those images should have descriptive captions. That was not the case for this article. There's one picture of Elizabeth Peabody that just says her name underneath. It would be nice if there was a year and a description of what was going on in the photo.

Checking the talk page

 * Elizabeth Peabody had a mother with the same name, and editors wanted to make that clear. Another editor said that Peabody was never an editor of The Dial, rather a publisher.
 * It is rated of relatively low importance. It is part of 4 WikiProjects.

'''This article discussed Peabody as a normal person. They didn't go in depth about her ideas about society like we did in class.'''

Overall impressions

 * Despite the clarity of the writing in this article, there doesn't seem to be to much attention being paid to it. Peabody's writings are not included. The article is more about who she was rather than what she actually did. It's underdeveloped. Considering that she was an early socialist thinker, the Wikipedia article should make that much more clear to readers.

Overall evaluation
'''This article is clear and concise. There aren't many problems with the writing. However the content is pretty barebones. More info could be added on this female philosopher and thinker.'''

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