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Article Evaluation: February 5, 2018

Jill Soloway

The article was sparse but there were a few things that stood out due to an imbalance of details. In particular, there was a section about Soloway's career as a television writer that gave a brief list of programs Soloway wrote for. However, there was an entire subsection dedicated to episodes of Six Feet Under that they directed. No other programs had their specific episodes listed.

The article seems neutral. Although, references were made to Soloway's "transfirmative action program" that breezed over the subject. It was treated more like a footnote to Soloway's career in television. In fact, Soloway's show Transparent is only briefly mentioned along with the accolades the show has received and been nominated for. The success of the show and credit to Soloway is underrepresented.

Nearly all of the citations are from web articles from sources such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Vanity Fair. Scholarly articles about Soloway and their work exist. A quick search on Project MUSE for "Jill Soloway" has an article titled, The Importance of Jewish Ritual in the Secular, Postmodern World of Transparent, as the very first result.

There is a bias in this article in that it only reflects very superficial and minimal details about Soloway and their career. Despite being part of numerous WikiProjects (Biography, Chicago, LGTB Studies, Religion/Interfaith, Screenwriters and Women Writers), The Talk page of the article has only two sections, both of which discuss Soloway's preference of pronouns.

This article downplays the achievements of Soloway, which is sadly expected due to some of the other sparse articles we reviewed in class. The article is poorly researched, superficial and an understatement to Soloway's career.