User:Minervascripps/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Ada Limón

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose to evaluate this article because I have done multiple personal and academic projects involving this poet's work, and I wanted to see if I could learn anything new about her from her Wikipedia page.

Evaluate the article
My first impression of this article was that it's unfinished. I got this sense from the lead section, which simply says, "Ada Limón is an American poet." That doesn't tell me anything about her identity, the type of poetry she writes, or why she's important. The warning banner at the top of the article also led me to think that it needs more citations and to be further fleshed out. Everything in the article is relevant to the topic, but somewhat lacking in critical nuance that would further balance the straight-out factual content. It's pretty concise as well, which I usually appreciate. In this case, it's more due to a lack of content than the succinctness of the editors.

The "Career" section is somewhat out of date. The last event it cites is from 2014, while Limón has had multiple books published since then, including the 15th Anniversary Edition of Lucky Wreck, which was published in 2021. The citations are relevant and reliable, but lacking in updated content. She has participated in interviews regarding her 15th anniversary release in the recent past, for example. This article is rated as C-class, but I personally believe that Limón deserves more recognition for her work in contemporary poetry. One way of giving her more visibility as a Mexican-American poet is to include some of the subjects she writes about in her poetry, such as her hometown, sexuality, womanhood, and personal identity. This article could also use more photos of Limón's face, her hometown, and possibly her book covers to further contextualize her work.