User:LIsaMariecastillo/sandbox

Article Evaluation

Evaluate article content by answering the following questions:


 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

-''The webpage tends to have a ray of different topics within it, it doesn't seem to have a main focus on political hip hop. Also a section about underground rap is thrown in there, and I see no relevance for it.''


 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

''-The entire article is pretty out dated. Most of its sources are from 2015 and before, so it not necessarily relevant to current time. For add ins I would remove the section on "Ideology and views of political rappers" and create a section just on the Ideology and views of political rap itself, and also offer further explanation on how politics and rap coincide.''


 * What else could be improved?

The page could include more recent research and sources within it.

= Evaluating tone =


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

''-I would consider the article neutral only because there's no stance or position taken on the topic within it. As I mentioned before the article itself is all over the place.''


 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

-I wouldn't say so.

= Evaluating sources =


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

''-The few citations I clicked worked, but not all of them were accurate to the information being discussed, one link led to a Beyoncé article actually. I found that part funny.''


 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

-As I mentioned above not all of them(not a complete thought)

= Checking the talk page =


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

-After reading the talk page, from what I understand the Wikipedia article could use improvement in several areas.


 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

Has nor received ratings and is a part of the wikiprojects.


 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

I don't believe we've covered my topic within class?