User:OnMyThirdLife/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Everyday life

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It seems like a very good "signpost" page that can help direct others to specific topics within sociology that relate to observations and theories of everyday life. I look forward to working with a few students to expand upon the connections and improve the references.

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
Not a strong lead section. Seems to be written too generallyand is not clear from what perspective it speaks (maybe from a bio-anthropological perspective?). Specifying this as a page about the conceptions of everyday human life seems prudent.

Previous Wikipedians have identified this article as of high importance to sociology and psychology, with which I agree. To that end, I will attempt to revise the article to target the sociological understanding of everyday life (aka daily life). I will provide referrals to intersectional articles of relevance, such as psychological, political, and anthropological articles.

An intro that specifies the context as how daily life is experienced by humans, and referral to other aspects or understandings of life such as life in the biological sense, is needed.

Content
The content is confusing; begins with an intro that seems bio-anthropological yet begins the content with a supposed sociological perspective supported by a psychological reference.

Does not represent global examples of "daily life"; needs to draw on a variety of cultures.

Information is definitely not complete from any disciplinary perspective and is out of date.

The current focus is on Euro-American concepts of daily life, specifically excluding cultures and subcultures that do not represent the dominant white cultural narrative. I envision this article being useful as an introduction to a diverse variety of conceptions of everyday life with links to existing articles that provide more in-depth cultural and disciplinary perspectives.

Tone and Balance
This article seems bias toward a global north, predominantly white, mostly affluent perspective that takes much for granted without mention of other lifestyles, cultures, or subcultures.

Nothing balanced about this article, which strikes me as more of a placeholder than anything in it's current assemblage.

Sources and References
The existing sources and citations are from reliable sources but are incomplete. The references provided are inadequate to support any scientific or disciplinary conception of daily life.

This article is in no way reflective of the available literature and is outdated.

As indicated above, the references do not reflect diverse perspectives.

Not all links to sources are valid.

Organization and writing quality
The writing should be clear and professional, the content should be organized sensibly into sections.

The writing is adequate without significant grammatical error.

The organization is lacking owing in part to not having a disciplinary focus. There is no real flow. Given that this article is a stub, this is not terribly surprising.

Images and Media
There is one image that represents a limited North American perspective, depicting only white men eating in a restaurant. The act of eating in a restaurant is itself far from universal across space, place, and time.

Talk page discussion
The article's talk page reflects that the last work modifications and comments were posted nearly a decade ago (2014). The discussion does provide a few key insights that I will use to guide my edits.

Overall impressions
This article is listed as start-class level-5 vital article. It is very underdeveloped and lacking a useful focus. It seems like a perfect article to suggest to my students in my current sociology course, as well as for me to individually continue to refine and update beyond this semester.