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Which article are you evaluating?
Thecla

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose the article on Thecla because I did my discussion leadership on Thecla, there is very little in this article on the scholarly interpretations of gender in regards to the story, and there are instances of needed citations in the article.

Evaluate the article
The article had a clear ands concise lead but it doesn't address that the article is about the veneration of the saint, just who she was.

In terms of content, there's room for more information to be added in regards to gender scholarship on Thecla. It also does not note that although Thecla is considered a protomartyr she was not actually martyered. The content in the article is relevant although it could be beefed up in terms of gender scholarship to address the equity gaps.

The article is balanced although there are claims made about a cultural practice in "spanish speaking countries" with no citation, which feels like a broad claim -- "In Spanish-speaking countries, she is also facetiously counted as the patron saint of computers and Internet, from the homophony with the Spanish and Catalan word tecla ("key")." This needs verification. Mentions of Al Queda accurately describe the group as radical, not broadly "muslims."

The sources are up to date and the links work however there is newer gender scholarship on Thecla that is hardly included. There are two sources that are from non-academic media, which could probably be fixed and verified by academic sources that confirm the same information.

The writing quality is clear and well done however the section on the movement of Thecla could be written better and include more contextual pieces/less emotional language -- "dare" could be changed to "not typically done by" etc. Was not able to find writing errors although there are some instances of facts not being verified or clear. This is both and writing and source issue. There is plenty of images included although there could be a whole section added on representations of Thecla in art, of which there is quite a bit! Very few images of what she is believed to have looked like.

Does not seem to be a whole lot happening in the talk section although there is something there about the bible mentioning what could be in reference to Thecla. It is involved in the following projects: Christianity / Saints, Religion, Biography, Women's History, Women in Religion. (Rated C Class in all of these projects)

Overall this article is detailed in the information about the veneration of Thecla but little on the scholarship on Thecla or artistic representations of Thecla. There are some sourcing issues but generally this article is not politically or culturally out of balance.