User:Nhaley11/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gender studies

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 its connection to our class in relation to gender and computing and how gender effects the computing industry. Although the article most likely will not talk about computing, it looks to give a very robust explanation as to what gender studies is and how this study came to be.

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:
 * The lead is somewhat concise and provides a good overview of what Gender Studies is as a whole.
 * There is a lack of evidence (which I think should be provided) when it's mentioned how the view of gender being used to refer to something that is socially constructed "is not held by all gender scholars."
 * I would include a brief description of what the rest of the article will be discussing since there is no mention of it in the lead.
 * Content:
 * The content is well written and the sources cited within the article contain both older and more recent pieces.
 * Tone and Balance:
 * There is an overall neutral tone seeing that both benefits and criticisms are mentioned.
 * Sources and References:
 * The references used don't seem to include a diverse spectrum of authors and contributions.
 * There can be improvement on the older sources referenced seeing that there is an abundance of more recent data.
 * The references seem to contain a good amount of sources from reputable institutions and websites.
 * Organization and writing quality:
 * I think the history section in the article should be better organized to detail the timeline of gender studies.
 * The government attitudes section in the article only includes negative attitudes coming from Hungary, Poland, and Russia.
 * I think that there should be a positive government attitude section included as well to maintain a neutral tone.
 * The names mentioned in the criticism section should also be bolded to make them more emphasized within the article.
 * Images and Media:
 * I believe there can be an improvement on the number of images in this article.
 * There seems to be a bad ration of images to words which can make reading the article seem cumbersome.
 * Talk page discussion:
 * The article is rated as C-class on Wikipedia.
 * There seems to be a lot of discussion on old points in the article that have been resolved and removed already.
 * Overall impressions:
 * Overall, I think this article is a good casual read to inform you about gender studies if you know little to nothing about it.
 * The article brings up good points, however, the evidence backing it up is lacking.
 * There is not much diversity in terms of content and references which detracts from the article itself.
 * Good brief overview, however, more information and nuances can be added.