User:Mingyili009/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The article that I'm evaluating is African-American women in computer science.

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 it because I'm interested in the topics about African-American women who work in the computer science field. This is important because in the real life, there's a lack of representation in both women and African American. When we have a better understanding of this topic, we could raise more awareness. The preliminary impression of this article is well-organized and contains History and Statistics, but it's shorter than I expected since it has a list of notable persons which directs you to another page.

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 Section

- It provides a simple introduction to African American women in computing, but it could be more comprehensive by introducing some notable persons in each computing field and their contributions.

Content

- The history part is well-written and goes over some important events and relevant people. Personally I'm surprised to see that the representation peaked at 40% in mid-1980s followed by a decline. It also contains some comparison of statistics between White women and Black women, but I think more focus to be put on some African American women and their stories

Tone and Balance

- It has a good tone and balance.

Sources and References

- The page has good citations and many of the sources are from peer-reviewed articles or journals.

Organization and writing quality

Images and Media

- It could include more images of African American Women in CS. Right now there's only one image.

Talk page discussion

- This article was nominated for deletion in 2015 because of the BLP (biographies of living persons) policy, but people argued that it shouldn't be speedily deleted because there's a list of notable African American Women with PhD, which is "an important information for the world."

Overall impressions

- A well-organized and informative page that provides links to some notable persons, but could tell more stories about African American women's experiences in CS.