User:Rishib23/Evaluate an Article

= Article 1 =

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluating the article on minority business enterprises: Minority business enterprise

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it is closely related to the work that my GPP organization does and is similar to the page that I'll create for my Wikipedia assignment.

Evaluate the article
The lead for this page is fine, but is missing citations for key categories under minority business enterprises, and doesn't clearly set up the rest of the structure of the article. While the content is up to date, it does not feel comprehensive as it only covers MBE's in the context of New York although MBE's are a federal designation as introduced in the lead. Moreover, the content of the article only covers the controversies related to studies about the prevalence of MBE's and corporations fraudulently claiming MBE status, not touching on any positive aspects of MBE's. This also points to a lack of diversity in the sources cited. The sources cited also do not seem to be the most reliable, including 3 citations of timesunion.com and 1 of bizjournals.com. One of the sources cited has a broken link, and two different citations both lead to the same URL. The talk page is empty and the content is very brief, so the article does not seem to present a trustworthy, neutral point of view.

= Article 2 =

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluating an article on black-owned businesses

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I've chosen this article because it resembles pretty closely the sector of my PE org which is "minority entrepreneurship"

Evaluate the article
The lead sentence discusses the origins of black owned businesses as existing during slavery, but it doesn't define or introduce the topic beyond that. It has brief discussions of the time periods that are then discussed in further detail throughout the article, but many of the claims in the lead section are missing citations. The content of the page does address Wikipedia's equity gaps because it talks about minority groups and their entrepreneurial efforts, and the content seems both relevant and up-to-date. The article is largely factual, describing different black business enterprises throughout history, simultaneously detailing the legal and social conditions that made different time periods easier or more difficult for black owned businesses to flourish. In terms of organization, it seems like smaller concepts that are relevant for specific time periods are introduced as their own sections rather than subheadings on another section, which makes the article a little bit more confusing to navigate. For example, when discussing the concept of the "double duty dollar", that concept is given its own heading instead of situating it within one of the time periods within which it was most relevant. That makes the organization of the page lack consistent structure. The article is well-written, and citations seem to be solid in all parts of the article except for the lead and the very last section. I think the overall article is pretty strong, with the only improvements being more consistent organization and filling in some missing citations. The talk page does include some discussion about the necessity of including some more recent topics of interest, for example the way that social media affects black owned businesses. It also includes a discussion of the necessity of sources in the lead, which I also noticed.