User:Newt1izard/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Indigenous science - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen to evaluate the Indigenous Science page because that article is what our class assignments revolve around. This article matters quite a bit for a number of reasons. Indigenous communities are so often considered to not have "science" or "real" knowledge of the world. A Wikipedia page dedicated to challenging this by documenting the knowledge the Indigenous people acquired with decades and centuries of observation and practice can only be a positive thing. Also, OERs are just super great. My preliminary impression of the article is that it is distressingly short. It is only eleven paragraphs.

Evaluate the article
Content


 * Everything within the article was relevant. Nothing was distracting.
 * I could not identify anything that needed to be updated.
 * The are huge gaps in information, most noticeably within the "Technology by Area" section, which only features one paragraph on the American Southeast.

Tone


 * The article is rather objective overall. It mentions the fact that Indigenous knowledge was often "devalued" by white scientists and explorers which may be seen as biased but is an objectively true fact.

Sources


 * I skimmed this, as 35 sources means that half of the page is made up of source material, it is simply a lot to go over. However, from what I could tell, what was stated in the article was consistent with the cited sources.

Talk Page


 * The talk page is mostly debates about if an edit is relevant or debating what the interpretation of only 5 notable scholars could be.
 * Something I found really interesting was that it was nominated for deletion for being an "advocacy article" with unreliable sources. The phrase "pseudoscience" was also thrown around. The nomination was withdrawn.