User:Lemoneww/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Kehinde Wiley

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am currently doing a project on Wiley's work and want to use some prior knowledge I had to verify/confirm some information I already know about him as a figure.

Evaluate the article
- lead paragraph gives a brief overview of his information as well as accolades/achievements. His painting of Barack Obama is mentioned as one of his most prominent commissions, and sets itself up to be the thing he is most well known for.

- the last updates to his life work seems to have been in 2018; could use some 2020s updates to his work and exhibitions

- uses neutral voice when describing achievements as well as the interactions Wiley has had with figures such as Barack Obama

- Kehinde Wiley as a political figure does include his work's messages and purpose, but remains as a neutral voice that does not have the feel of a persuasion piece by the article's creators.

- Many of the sources are from entertainment and journalist articles. It includes objective sources like the Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as opinion pieces such as Wyatt Mason's 2013 article on Wiley's pieces, which have a clear bias for the artist's work. There were also some that were sourced from the Wayback Machine, indicating that there may be archived information on his work. I'm not 100% sure about whether articles obtained from the Wayback Machine are credible or not, but I thought it was interesting to find that they were sourced from there.

- for the most part, the information on the page goes in chronological order to the timeline of Wiley's career and work.

- There are almost no images of Wiley's paintings, not even the famous Barack Obama commission mentioned from the beginning of the article. Being a visual artists, I would argue that it is incredibly important to include images of his work (this is also mentioned in the Talk page).

- The talk page includes some political discourse surrounding Wiley, such as criticism towards a racist past. It also mentions personal life information like his sexuality and business practices, but there does not seem to be many sources or information on any of these topics to include them in the actual page