User:Michaelagomez6/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Corrido

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because of my interest in Mexican/Mexican American culture and history. This matters to me because I am Mexican American and feel that my culture is under represented in history we are taught and feel it is important that the sources for history on a popular musical genre should be accurate and full of valuable input. Before reading the article, based upon the lead fragment, I felt the article would be full of great history as well as a proper representation of the culture.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead:

I feel the lead was a great introduction that had a good overview of what we were about to read. The issue I did have with the lead is the mentioning of Chilean corridos which were never covered.

Content:

I feel the content lacked resources that were required for the claims being made such as the present history. Also, I feel that there was not enough resources making it such that the article was based upon only one point of view. Also, the section of "trap corrido" lacked valuable content being that it is only one sentence long. All in all, I feel that the expansion on important topics was just not there as well as important history and notable artists of this type of music.

Tone and Balance:

The article has a very balanced tone with no persuasion. It does not seem to be biased towards one position or view point. This may be due to the lack of overall content, though.

Sources and Reference:

The links do work, but do seem to be a bit outdated with one book being from 1972 for information related to present day. Besides this, I feel it lacks a variety of resources being only 15 resources are cited for such a potentially dense historical article.

Organization and Writing Quality:

The organization seems to be in good chronological order with few grammatical errors, but also does seem to lack content and quality of detail and expansion for important topics that would have added to the topic making the article richer.

Images and Media:

The images seem to be historically accurate but could be better if they caught the historical events that shaped the genre of music as well as photos of the people mentioned in the article. Also, snippets of the music would make the article more interactive and grab the readers attention.

Talk Page discussion:

The talk page is very helpful and interactive. It shows that the article is apart of wikiprojects of latin music. The Talk page also leaves valuable resources and adds topics for the reader to think about while reading the article.

Overall Impressions:

The article has great structure being in historical chronological order, but lacks content expanding on the topics mentioned. Because of this, I feel the article is very underdeveloped but has a lot of potential that could capture the true importance and history of Mexican/Mexican American history and culture related to the musical genre. By expanding on the historical events, adding resources, talking about specific artist, and showing how the genre has developed and changed as time has gone by, the article would be a great one.