User:Kcleary217/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Disability hate crime

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I felt that the coverage is similar for the topic that I will be working on. This covers an event that affects lots of people but looking at how it is uniquely experienced by the disabled community. I want to look at how this type of coverage is done well (or not well).

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

- The lead section is good! Very clear introduction of all of the words and people that are relevant to the rest of the article. This section is concise and gives an appropriate amount of detail for the reader to comprehend the article and to understand the importance of it.

Content:

- This article is pretty up to date, the latest of the sources dates to 2019 so most all of the information is relevant. The content gives a history of legislation relevant to disability hate crimes so that information is still accurate but I think it is missing modern takes on the issues discussed. After the pandemic and the social movements that the world witnessed (Black Lives Matter, Stop Asian Hate, etc) issues such as this could be taken differently by the public. It is more normal for people to speak up about discrimination and they will be taken more seriously.

- This entire topic is historically underrepresented so this article is writing on something that is not typically written about.

Tone and Balance:

- The tone of the article is neutral. The take of the issue is much more informational than anything else and obviously this is a bad thing so that article does a good job about letting the reader draw their own conclusions about the topic.

- The article is written like an essay, which is easy to read but not informative.

Sources and References:

- The article pulled from numerous sources, a good number of which were from scholarly journals so it is clear that the author did considerable research into the issue.

- While it is good that there are a great number of scholarly resources, there is not a good number of personal accounts from disabled people or new sources from then incidents have happened that contain first hand accounts. It would have been nice to see more first hand accounts or perspectives from within the disabled community but this article does take more of an analytical stance on the issue so I am not sure exactly where personal accounts would have fit into the article.

- The links are accurate and they work

Organization and Writing Quality:

- This article is concise and easy to read, it is well-written

- I did not come across any obvious or glaring grammatical errors  - The tone of this article could have been more informational than it was written.

- I wish there had been more of a conclusion on the issue or at least a looking ahead section about the future of the issue.

Images and Media:

- This is where this article is lacking the most, it is very bare when it comes to media of any kind.

- The article mentions a lot of different statistics, it would have been nice to see those laid out visually.

Talk page and Discussion:

- There aren't too many discussions going on, just a few people letting the creator know that they changed some things on the page.

- The article has been rated as C-class

- This article really focuses on disability hate crimes in the UK so that is different from in-class because we usually look at things in a US context.

Overall Impressions:

- This article is okay. There is a lot of statistics in there that can help orient someone on how prevalent the issue is but there are no figures to accompany the statistics. The writing is clear and easy to read but there is a lack of urgency that doesn't leave the reader wondering where to go next.