User:Palladiumpaladin/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cèilidh

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because ceilidhs are something that I've attended a lot of, and I believe it's an important part of Gaelic culture. In my preliminary look at the article, it looks a bit short in the history section, but the section on modern ceilidhean seems to be more robust.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is concise and starts with a clearly describing sentence, but doesn't properly provide a brief description of each section, and it contains information not found in the rest of the article. The content of the article seems all relevant, but a lot more attention is given to the subsection "Similar gatherings in England" than I would expect, and a lot less attention is given to ceilidhs outside of the British Isles. Even within the British Isles, Northern Ireland only gets one sentence. This seems to me like a bit of an equity gap, giving much more attention to a group that has historically been overrepresented (the English) than groups that have been historically marginalized (North American, Australian, New Zealander, and Northern Irish Gaels). The information seems up to date though, talking about ceilidhs into the modern decade of the 2020s. The article's tone seems neutral, but again, ceilidhs outside of the British Isles are not touched on. The citations I checked have functioning links, and support the information they're cited for. The page could use more citations for the information it gives, but the sources it uses seem to be neutral, and are a diverse group with both their authors and their publications. The talk page has conversations about representing more areas that ceilidhs happen in in the article's images, merging the Céilí dance article with this one (which did happen), and adding new sources. The article is of interest to the Dance, Scotland, Celts, and Ireland WikiProjects, where it is not rated in the Dance WikiProject and is a C-class article in the other three. The members in the talk page discuss the topic in a much more removed way than how we would talk about it in class.