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Article evaluation
I chose to evaluate the article, “Public libraries in North America.” One thing I noticed right off the bat was that although the article title refers to libraries within the entire North American continent, it only contains content pertaining to the United States and Canada. All other North American countries seem to have been excluded and would therefore be classified as “underrepresented.” Either material should be added that references North American countries such as Mexico or countries in Central America and the Caribbean, or else the title should be changed to “Public libraries in Canada and the United States.” Looking at the Talk page, this has been mentioned by one user. However, this user posted their comment on January 12, 2017, an no one has replied as to why only Canada and the US are mentioned in the article. I would flag this article as incomplete and recommend that content relating to other North American countries be added so as to make the article reflect the title better.

Another issue I had with the page is the section titled, “Changing roles of libraries.” The content in this section only covers the changing roles of libraries up to 1900, aside from a reference from 1989 that libraries should be free to the public. What about other issues of the past 100 years that relate to libraries? This section needs to be updated to reflect the contemporary role that libraries play in our daily lives. Overall the article is rated as a “B-class” article and is classified as being of “mid-importance.” Also, the article is within the scope of “WikiProject Libraries,” and “WikiProject North America.” Personally, I would recommend that this article undergo a major overhaul to address some of these concerns.

Most of the sources seem to work and of the ones I checked, seem to support the article. There was one sentence I noticed near the end of the article that was incomplete: “This period of growth ended in due to[further explanation needed] the inflationary period in the 1970s and the two recessions during the 1980s.[40]” It is not stated in this sentence, nor in the surrounding sentences, as to when the period of growth ended. This should be fixed and if the exact date cannot be found, then the sentence should be removed. Overall, I was dissatisfied with the quality of this article ad as I stated earlier, it should either be removed or completely redone.

Potential contributions
I chose to look more closely at Sylvia Fein’s article page. One main contribution I would like to add would be to mention some of her works beyond graduating from UC Berkeley in 1951. There’s roughly 50 years of Fein’s life that goes unmentioned in the article, aside from the exhibition lists and a small section detailing her writing career. Although the page has a section titled “Solo exhibitions,” it is just a list that does not go into any detail about her pieces that were exhibited. The same can be said about the “Group exhibitions” section. I would like to add more substance to this article so that it is more than just a list. More specifically, I think it would be useful to have a section highlighting some of her works. In addition, I would like to flesh out the section about her writing career.

The following is a draft of what I would like to contribute to Fein's article:

Early life and education

Fein was born on November 20, 1919, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was the second of three children. Her parents were Alfred Fein, an attorney, and Elizabeth Fein, a pianist. During her youth, Fein described herself as being a quiet child, and stated in an interview that while in school, "I was always considered dumb. Artistic ability when I was growing up was not a great thing anybody was looking for. They were looking for scholastic ability ... and I didn't talk a lot, but that was not recognized, it was just put down that you weren't too smart academically." After graduating from high school, Fein hoped to attend college, but the family could not afford to send her to college. As a result, Fein spent a year working to raise the money needed to attend college. It was during this time that she was introduced to William “Bill” Scheuber (1918-2013), her future husband. Soon after, Fein enrolled at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Scheuber was also enrolled.

Though initially wanting to enroll in the Art program, Fein would later recall her sister saying to her, "Yes, but you'd never get a job when you got out of college, so you should enter the home ec[onomics] school and at least then you could become a teacher." The following year however, Fein changed majors and began to study painting. While completing her program, she was introduced to John Wilde, Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe, all of whom would later be referred to as the “surrealists of the Midwest.” On May 30, 1942, Fein and Scheuber were married, shortly before Scheuber joined the United States military and left to fight in World War II.

Life in Mexico (These two sentences will end the paragraph on Life in Mexico)

Upon returning to the United States, Fein and Scheuber moved to East Oakland, California. By that time, Fein and Scheuber had purchased a boat and began to go boating up in the California Delta region. These boat trips gave her inspiration to begin work on her landscapes and seascapes of California.

Writing career (Material in bold is what I have added)

In the late 1970s, Fein took a break from painting and wrote two books. The first book, Heidi's Horse, offers an analysis of the development of her daughter, Heidi Scheuber’s drawings throughout childhood. The book examines her drawings from the ages of two to fifteen. Her second book, First drawings: genesis of visual thinking, is about the basic patterns that appear throughout human art, both historically and during childhood development. Fein’s hope with First drawings was to showcase the relationship between the art done by children and the cave paintings of the Paleolithic period.

Return to painting

Fein began painting again in the early 2000s, and exhibited a selection of both her recent and earlier work in 2014. Shortly after returning to painting, Fein began to work on her “Eye” series, which often exhibited elements of paintings she had done decades earlier. The series currently consists of twenty-one paintings. Fein would later describe her “Eye” series as both a fun and thrilling experience. Fien also returned to painting landscapes of California, a continuation of earlier work she had done between 1955 and 1975.

After the death of her husband in 2013, '''Fein began work on her “Tree” series as a memorial to her husband, whom Fein credited as having always supported her career. The series consists of five paintings, the first of which symbolizes her husband. Her next piece in the series was meant to represent both Fein and Scheuber, while the third piece represented Fein herself. A fourth piece symbolized both Fein and Scheuber again. Fein enjoys being near nature which is where she also draws a lot of her inspiration for her works from.''' She currently resides in Martinez, California.”

Potential Fein bibliographic sources

 * 1) http://sova.si.edu/record/AAA.feinsylv
 * 2) https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/sylvia-fein-papers-15954
 * 3) http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=aa11eef7-fcb2-4d33-a37b-3cc912e5d2dd%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHVpZCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=96053064&db=ulh
 * 4) Exhibit articles
 * 5) http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=a6a4300a-1c20-4562-a92f-dca113df7b15%40sessionmgr120&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHVpZCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=95767865&db=f5h
 * 6) http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=b171a5b1-a107-45a6-bfec-41c6c737d4df%40pdc-v-sessmgr01&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHVpZCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=5619492&db=lfh
 * 7) http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=68433ffd-5e55-4102-8e70-187c6d842a64%40sessionmgr102&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPWlwLHVpZCZzaXRlPWVob3N0LWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#AN=31418372&db=ulh
 * 8) https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/sylvia-fein/