User:Jlia22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Linguistic discrimination

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this topic because it is related to my class, and is interesting to me. The topic in practice is likely a source of controversy or strong opinions, which gives the chance for me to rate if the article is high quality or not. The article appears to be fairly well written with a large references page at first glance.

Evaluate the article
The lead section does a good job at giving a concise first sentence and paragraph introduction. It is however slightly overdetailed, and some of the specific information about Linguistic Imperialism would probably be better located in its own section or grouped with another. The content, tone and balance of the article can mostly be summarized as high quality. Primarily, the article keeps a neutral tone amongst topics that persons may have strong opinions on or a personal relation. The topic presents instances of Linguistic Discrimination (and therefore certain opinions), and then provides academic or otherwise relevant explanations as to why the viewpoints are unfounded and baseless (as academically and socially agreed upon). This is especially notable and contributes to a high overall rating as by nature of the topic, the article discusses historically underrepresented topics and populations. The reference section is a good size for the size of the article, and contains a mix of sources from linguists and other academics. It should be noted that some of the sources are news articles or something similar, however in this case such a citation is more justified, as they are generally pointing to examples of either linguistics discrimination itself or a development within the topic (often from a country or government). The largest negative attribute of the article is its organization. Many of the subsections could be better organized into larger, more general headings, and some topics are mentioned or partially mentioned more than once. This would help to make the article flow more fluently, and connect ideas and topics together. The article also could use a few more pictures to tie into the subheadings. Finally the talk page appears to be orderly and constructive, with even some disagreements that were approached in a non-hostile manner. Overall, the article is of pretty good quality, but has room for a few improvements most notably in the organization of the article. Perhaps a partial rewrite could be in order, up to the discretion of the main contributor's. Secondly, if possible some of the references should replaced with more academic alternatives, or if some sort of news, replaced from the source (like a government's website with legislative information).