User:Knowacki1234/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Trisha Paytas

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate
I have chosen this article to evaluate because it is a biography of a semi-famous person that I already know information about. I think it will be interesting to look at the information posted online in comparison to what she shows and talks about online. I have watched and followed this You tuber for many years, therefore I have a good in-sight about who she is. My first glance at the article seems like it covers her life pretty detailed.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section

The introductory sentence provides a clear description of what the article will be about. It opens up with Paytas's full name, birthday, and the general reason as to why she's known to the public eye. Although the lead does introduce the main sections of what will be talked about (her different career paths), it does not mention anything about her personal relationship life which does have a sector in the article. The lead also mentions Paytas's other jobs that she fulfilled in the past that are NOT later talked about in the article. This includes her stripping career, and product creations. I find the lead section to be a bit overly distracting between her main/current careers and past careers. I felt like it jumps back and forth between the two and is a bit confusing to understand.

Content

The content provided itself is up to date other then her current new fame on the revolving TikTok app that Paytas has recently gained over a million followers on. The content itself in each section is relevant to the topic that is described, however, in the main focused section of Paytas's biography where her main success path is written about (youtube), a few sentences go off topic in this section that do not belong here such as her appearances on TV and game shows. As well in the smaller section of her success path, where her music and podcasts are written about, it talks about how Paytas enjoys being an internet troll and creating controversial content to promote her platform and exposure. I believe that this is a huge part of her success and should have been mentioned in the lead section, not in the music/podcasts section. Because this is a biography of a person and their personal life, there are no equity gaps being seen here.

Tone & Balance

The article itself is pretty neutral and un-biased, but could potentially be seen as someone who wrote it was a fan of Paytas. I say this because the writer seems to only address her main successes and underrepresent her more controversial topics that also did lead her to becoming a millionaire. What is only underrepresented here is her link that is connected to her photo that leads to an 18+ website where Paytas has decided to make 18+ content for extra money. I would say if I didn't know who Trisha Paytas was and read this article, I would not think anything potentially controversial about her, when in reality, she's one of the most dramatic and controversial you tubers/entertainers I watch sometimes.

Sources & References

The links that are provided as well as the referencing is mostly just Paytas links to all of her social medias, appearances, youtube channel, and anywhere where a person can further find her as she is an internet personality star. Because of this, all the sources do come from a diverse spectrum as Paytas has been on and participates on a lot of platforms. I have been able to click some of the links and they do work by forwarding me to her channels, interviews, podcasts etc. In terms of finding other sources, I do not think that any other sources would work here since this is a biography of a small known you tuber. Paytas has unfortunately not made a heavily impacted difference in the world to be in scholarly articles. However, she is referenced by Forbes, IMdb and other reliable, and well known magazines.

Organization

Throughout my evaluation, I think I have already touched on the poor organizational skills into this article. I believe that the information was hard to read because it seemed all over the place. I also think that each segment should have been spilt up differently in terms of Payta's careers. Podcasts should have been put with online socials, and concert tours should have been placed with music. I also think that Paytas's sexual jobs online and offline that are barely spoken about should have had their own segment rather than just throwing it around in random places and links where is not even connected to the article. Grammar and spelling is okay with some minor punctuational errors.

Images and Media

The only provided image is one that shows what Paytas looked like in 2017, therefore, has not been updated in a long time. The photo is just a screenshot from a youtube that was placed as her profile picture. There are no other images placed that include anything about her life, or relationships.

Talk page

On the talk page a very interesting topic came up about Paytas that was not addressed at all on her Wikipedia biography. Paytas has struggled most of her life with gender and identity and it has been noted that writers are thinking about changing her pronouns to him/they. She has also been noted that she identifies as a "chicken nugget" in a past youtube interview and therefore it is impossible to take anything she says herself as a reliable source of information. Paytas has struggled with mental health issues since childhood, and therefore has made some questionable decisions impacting her written biography in terms of what is really real, and what is not. The main issue here is and this is a case where an exception to the general rule is required is the information which Paytas produces particularly on youtube is not verifiable. Paytas has claimed to be "non-human" a "Chicken Nugget" a "Transexual male" a "gay man", she has also made claim "Sean Van Der Wilt Is Gay," and to have got "Married". None of these claims has any sources except Paytas her self. Similarly, her stated religion can not be verified because it is changed on and off between Christian and Muslim. I think the talk page is a very much more realistic side of who Trisha Paytas is, and the realistic things she talks about currently on her platforms.

Overall impressions

This article was nominated for deletion but was kept, and her discography was deleted because the sourcing was not enough to be reliable in this section. This article is currently in interest for 3 wiki projects including Actors and filmmakers, Youtube, Women in music. I think this article can defiantly be a lot more organized and finding a legal current photo to update. Overall it was interesting to see what was written versus the talk page and comparing that to the information that I know myself. I think the article is under developed.