User:Oiw222/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Leila Aboulela)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose it because I think it's important to highlight female African writers, and I felt like there was more information that could be added about the author.

Evaluate the article
- Everything in the article is relevant to the topic. The structure was a bit distracting since it felt disorganized. For example, the “literary career” heading includes her awards, critical reception, and influences however I believe it would work best if it began in chronological order. Then the article could cite the critical reception and awards for each book, in order of publication to make it easier to read. Literary influences could be in its own heading and the comment about her being “an influential member of a new wave of British Muslim writers” could be in the lead section. The lead section is also too detailed and the descriptions of her novels could be expanded in a different section, perhaps under literary career.

- All of the information is up to date. In 2020, she was interviewed by Qantara.de where she talked more about her childhood, and how her life and the countries she lived in influenced her writing. The information from this article could be added to the “Personal life” and a “Literary Influences”. This could establish a “Literary Influences” section that both informs the authors who inspired her writing and goes into more detail about how her life, religion, identity, and immigrant experiences influence her work.

- I don’t notice any equity gaps or misrepresentations.

- I believe the article is neutral, however, it represents her solely as of “Sudanese origin” even though her mother is Egyptian. Media articles commonly cite her as Sudanese-Egyptian.

- The links to the citations work and they support the claims in the article, however, the first two paragraphs of the lead do not have any citations

- I don’t believe that there are enough references and there should be newer citations from interviews she’s had more recently

- There are no conversations on the talk page, however, there is a lot of editing history (since 2006)

- The article is rated C-class, and is part of the following WikiProjects:

-WikiProject Biography / Arts and Entertainment

WikiProject Africa / Sudan

WikiProject Women writers

WikiProject African diaspora

- I believe that the article overall would benefit from expanding on her books, providing plot summaries, and providing a more detailed description of her literary influences, and career.