User:Rosa Poetisa/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Feminist Mormon Housewives

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
There was a lot of choices and I am the worst at choosing from a buffet. :) This title caught my attention because I'm always interested in how feminism emerges from within segments of Christianity that are ultra conservative. I find fringe voices within these groups, inspiring courage and frustration.  The page is not deeply developed and from the get go the authors or author come across as wanting to make a point that the contributors to the Feminist Mormon Housewives are unique because of their political affiliation and "liberal" ideology.

Evaluate the article
The Lead Section is sufficient to know what the article is about. However, it includes comparative information that is not useful and distracting. It could include who are the contributors of the blog and its impact in the mormon community.

There are some comments on the Talk page critiquing the mention of the blogger's political affiliation and push back about perpetuating the Mormon community as angry, a stereotype I was not aware of, but reading this short article the qualifying word angry is used twice. The page is part of four WikiProjects: LatterDay Saints Movement, Blogging, Gender Studies, and Feminism.

Overall, the content does not provide as to why the contributions of this blog and its writers are important in the Latter Day Saints community and what impact it has in the lives of women who consume the content.

The author describes the experiences of the blogger's founder as their own. No quotes or references to support these statements. The article checks the notability requirement with coverage from the New York Times and one other periodical, but quotes heavily the content from the blog itself. Some of the links are archived or not available. However, the Feminist Mormon Housewives continue to be active on Facebook as recent as 2020 and have a new URL for their Podcast page.

This page was once nominated for deletion by Wikipedia who later withdrew the nomination naming their own bias against Mormons and feminist alike. Other contributors agree that while the page is incomplete it has a space in the conversation. I agree that it is important to preserve documentation of these micro movements within movements because they point to those who are left out. In this case women who felt their need for a space to share their ideas and common experiences. The article could be improved by adding the role of women in the Mormon church and the basis of feminist thinking within this particular group. A comparison between mainstream feminism and Mormon feminism would be helpful.