User:Quintenvdw/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gush Emunim

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article since it is related to the topic of sectarianism, which Ussama Makdissi defines as the 'deployment of religious heritage as a primary marker of political identity'. Additionally, it is a subject I would consider myself to be knowledgable of, without which it would be rather difficult to evaluate. Gush Emunim as a messianic organization that instrumentalizes religion for political purposes, thus fits the sectarian picture quite well. My preliminary of the article was that it is short, but the list of sources appears to be well-founded and thorough nevertheless.

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.)

The LEAD of the article is concise: it grasps the main goal of Gush Emunim rather well, whilst simultaneously addressing its influence on Israeli society. As for the CONTENT, there appears to be a wide gap. The subsection dealing with the history of the movement jumps from 1976 to 2017, thus skipping four decades. This is a shame, because the influence of the movement was particularly vast during the 1980s (evidenced by the election of Meir Kahane in the Knesset) and the 1990s. the TONE AND BALANCE appears to be in order. The article (very) briefly summarizes the manner in which the movement is described, without emphasizing one or the other. Recent work of Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler and Cas Mudde is not yet included, but given the publication date of their work (November 2020) that is understandable. Overall, the SOURCES AND REFERENCES are in order. My main comment would be that there a references to pages (mostly persons) without an active Wikipedia page, which is distracting. The ORGANIZATION AND WRITING QUALITY is alright. I think the article could benefit from a section specifically addressing the movement's impact on Israeli society and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but I admit that this would make it vulnerable to accusations of partiality. Furthermore, as already addressed, the history subsection is incomplete. The article does not contain IMAGES AND MEDIA. There are no issues that addressed on the TALK PAGE DISCUSSION that were not already covered above. Finally, the OVERALL IMPRESSION is that the lead is good, but the remainder of the article does not live up to the information available on Gush Emunim. Therefore, this article would be an excellent article to edit, expand.

A point of info and question from a newb
I literally know nothing about this topic, which seems somewhat controversial (as you mention above), and am still learning the basics of Wikipedia. I was checking the edit history, and saw you inserted a whole bunch, I suppose after evaluating it, on this page. Its a small nitpicking detail to bring to your attention I suppose- but I saw the word "ultimo" near the end of the article, which I am pretty sure is Spanish or Latin for "last". Its not English. At first I thought that part was vandalism, but I guess maybe not.