User:Rianna15/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Feminist political theory

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I thought it related to the course I am currently taking, Gender and Politics, but also because after taking some WGSS classes and focusing on women, I wanted to expand my knowledge into how gender and politics combine in different ways, such as political theory. This article is important to understand because often people discuss how gender and gendered power creates advantages and disadvantages in politics but discussing feminist political theory takes that information a step further, discussing systems that uphold those advantages and disadvantages and questions the political systems and intuitions present today in a different lens. Originally, this article seems to have a lot of ideas, providing background and present information, and seems very informative.

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 Evaluation:

- The introductory sentence of the lead section does describe what the article will delve into, explaining feminist political theory and providing a definition of it for readers.

-The lead does not include a description of the article's main sections

-The lead does not have any information that the rest of the article does not include.

-The lead is concise, giving a very brief introduction to what feminist political theory is and what it encompasses.

Content:

-The content is relevant to the topic, providing both the history and what it currently means to say feminist political theory.

-Yes

-There is no content that does not belong however, the article could use more information about how feminist political theory plays a role in current politics and political decisions.

-The article does talk about women and how they are disadvantaged/excluded in gendered political intuitions. The article also mentions intersectionality, and how race and gender might come together to create an even more unloved playing field for women of color, however this is very briefly mentioned.

Tone and Balance:

- The article does seem to be neutral, not being biased towards a certain side.

-No

-No

-Yes

-No, the article seems to serve just to inform, not persuade the reader towards a certain outcome

Sources and References:

-Yes

-The sources are thorough.

-No, not all the sources are current. Many of the sources are from earlier years.

-The sources have limited diversity, mainly being from white female authors, with very few women of color authors.

-There are better sources that include more academic readings for the given topic that the writer could have utilized.

-Yes the links to the sources all work.

Organization and Writing Quality:

-Yes, the article is concise and easy to read. There are not any grammatical or spelling errors and the article is broken down in sections that make it easy to understand the topics.

Images and Media:

-There are not many images in the article but the few that were used do contribute to the overall understanding of the material. However, more images could have been used to aid in providing information.

-The images used did have clear captions, explicitly stating what the picture was of and from what year.

-Yes, the images do adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations.

-The images were not put in a visually appealing way but rather were simply placed next to the words and could have been spread out more to make it more appealing.

Talk Page Discussion:

-The talk page discussions are limited but are about adding more details about certain sections to give the reader a better understanding of what each section is and perhaps including more sections.

-The article appears to be related to 3 WikiProjects and rated Start-Class, High Importance.

-Wikipedia discusses this topic in a more broad sense, providing strictly definitions and what the term means while in class we take it a step further, going over certain policies or specific ways in which women are disadvantaged in politics and political decisions.

Overall Impressions:

- Overall, the article appears to be very informative and well written, with a few possible edits in order to add to the reader's knowledge of the topic.

-Some of the article's strengths are its clear and concise presentation of information as well as clearly labelled sections that are relevant to the topic, making the page easy to navigate. Additionally, the article does a good job of staying neutral and simply providing information, without any biases, and making sure to include many sources.

-Some ways the article can be improved is through the adding of more images, more diversity in terms of authors of secondary sources, as well as more information about Feminist Political Theory in current times and relating it back to politics today.

-I would say the article is well-developed and a good source of information about the given topic. The article does a good job of providing a lot of information in an easy to understand way and is thorough, with the exception of a couple possible edits to add to the article.