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Name of article: History of the telephone


 * Martin, M. (1988). Feminisation of the Labour Process in the Communication Industry: The Case of the Telephone Operators, 1876-1904. Labour / Le Travail, 22, 139-162. doi:10.2307/25143030
 * Frahm, J. (2004). The Hello Girls: Women Telephone Operators with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3(3), 271-293. Retrieved October 3, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25144374
 * Middeljans, A. (2010). “Weavers of Speech”: Telephone Operators as Defiant Domestics in American Literature and Culture. Journal of Modern Literature, 33(3), 38-63. doi:10.2979/jml.2010.33.3.38


 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate:
 * I noticed that the existing Wikipedia page is underrepresenting the role that women had in the development of the telephone. Specifically, the Wikipedia page lacks information on the extensive work that women contributed in being telephone operators.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? Yes, it includes the chronicles of the development and electric telephone
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? No, it does not
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? It is pretty concise

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes they are relevant
 * Is the content up-to-date? They are not as up-to-date as it can be. I do not see much elaboration on the current phones we have.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? There is an underwhelming section that gives credit to the women who contributed to the sucesses of the telephone and there is not much mention on the technology of modern day phones.
 * Does the article deal with one of Wikipedia's equity gaps? Does it address topics related to historically underrepresented populations or topics? It can do more.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral? Yes
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? Pretty male-biased to giving contribution credit.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? Women's work is underrepresented.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another? It does not.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Yes
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?Yes
 * Are the sources current? Yes there is a mix of both current and old sources.
 * Are the sources written by a diverse spectrum of authors? Do they include historically marginalized individuals where possible? A gender bias is pretty clear to me.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Yes they work

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? It is pretty concise, despite the article being a vast topic
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? Not that I have noticed
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? The organization is okay.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic? They include images of the early telephone blueprints as well as contributors to its creation. There are also images that display how the technology worked.
 * Are images well-captioned? Yes, they are concise and capture the image purpose well.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? All of the images do not cite where the picture came from.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? Yes.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There is a bit of a discrepancy on correct dates of patents and linguistic questions of where the name 'telephone' came from. There seems to be a lot of questions about the origin of things.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? It is rated level 5 on importance but C on its project. It is within the WIkiprojects.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status? The overal status is a C. There is definitely a vast list of information regarding this topic that has yet to be added to the article. What is has right now is not the worse however.
 * What are the article's strengths? The article strength is that there are a lot of visual aids that coincide with the information presented.
 * How can the article be improved? The article lacks a lot of recent information on how modern phones have developed and who contributed to the telephone operations in the past.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? The article is underdeveloped, but it is not poorly developed. There is information there but it is definitely just scraping the surface.

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