User:Liaweed/Black Girls Code/Sotero2018 Peer Review

General info
Liaweed (provide username)
 * Whose work are you reviewing?


 * Link to draft you're reviewing
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Girls_Code


 * Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)

Evaluate the drafted changes
(Compose a detailed peer review here, considering each of the key aspects listed above if it is relevant. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what feedback looks like.)

Lead The lead does a beautiful job of quickly telling the readers what Black Girls Code is about. The first sentence is concise and summarizes BGC accurately. The lead of this article, unfortunately, does not include a brief description of the article sections to follow. Founding and the organization itself is written about in the lead, but awards and grants ar,e not, which I would suggest being added to this section. The lead also speaks on the projected number of computing jobs in the United States, which is not found within the rest of the article. Perhaps speaking on the growing industry should be found in the body of the article as well. The lead of this article does a great job of not over articulating what it is about but still gives the reader a concise glimpse of what Black Girls Code is about.

Content

The article does a wonderful job of including the foundation history as well as the goals and accomplishments of BGC. The content follows up to about 2019 which does indicate that there might be more information that can be included about the subject. The content of the article includes other organizations and involvement opportunities that BGC has been a part of which is incredibly relevant. The body of the article also articulated the goal of BGC which is to help Black girls occupy jobs in the technology industry. The article of Black Girls Code directly addresses the underrepresentation that Black girls have faced in the United States. BGC shows that Black girls have consistently been underrepresented within the technology industry in all of its branches. For this reason, Black Girls Code was created to attempt to close the equity gap between Black girls ad their access to the ever-growing field of technology.

Tone and Balance

The writing in this article is able to maintain a neutral tone despite some of the content is politically polarizing. One example of this is when the author notes that BGC purposefully turned down donations from Uber as a result of political conflict. The information was brought up in a neutral manner that merely meant to highlight the priorities and values of the organization. The article balanced this by also including organizations that BGC was willing to accept grants from and partnering with to spread their goal. The article surrounds a movement to fight for equality and the opportunities of Black girls yet the tone remains neutral and only strives to educate the reader on the subject matter.

Sources Looking through the article's references and sources I was able to click and open a majority of the sources excluding number eleven which did not have a functioning link. The sources were well balanced and often came from feminine presenting writers of color that put these pieces together. The sources chosen were able to be directly tied to the information that was in the article on Wikipedia. One of these sources was a direct link to the website of BGC which is a reliable source of information for this article.

Organization The overall organization of this article is great and allows the reader to follow along easily. One piece of advice I might add would be to add a follow-up section to include what the organization is currently up to. A simple grammatical error under the Organization section states is capitalized and should be lower case. The section headings accurately desribe what that section is about and what information can be found in it.

Images Peer did not add images to this Wikipedia page.

For new articles N/A

Overall impression My overall impression of this article is that it is very well written. There are minor changes that can help the article improve such as minor grammatical errors, inserting a link to a missing source, and perhaps adding up-to-date information on the activity of the organization. Another small note that might improve the article could be possibly adding more pictures that relate to this topic as a way to create more media involvement. The article is concise and well-articulated so as to not overwhelm the reader and present only the necessary information of the organization. Lastly, the article is presented in a neutral tone that allows the article to abide by Wikipedia expectations for an article.

Sotero2018 (talk) 22:19, 21 March 2021 (UTC)