User:Rubytuesday2023/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gender studies

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 it is my chosen major, and it is also very relevant to the course I am taking. My first impression is that it is very detailed, with lots of links to other pages and citations.

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 section: The lead has a good introductory sentence, and it lays out some of the major sections of the article, but not all of them. The lead seems to have a bit more detail than is needed, and brings up some points that are not heavily referenced later in the article.

Content: The article's content is mostly relevant to the topic, and seems fairly up to date. There are not a lot of countries listed in the "Government Attitudes" section, which I think needs expanding. This article does deal with one of wikipedia's equity gaps, and has a lot of information about marginalized communities. However, there is not a large number of references to women of colour scholars on the subject, even though they have had great influence on the topic. I do not think the article is as detailed or expansive as it should be.

Tone and Balance: The article seems fairly neutral, with both positive and negative aspects of the field represented. The criticism section does seem a bit large in contrast to the overall length of the article, and I think there could be some more positive outcomes of the field listed. The article is not persuasive, but there could be more indication of what views are minority/fringe ones.

Sources: Many of the links seem to work, and there are ample citations. However, more scholars of colour should be included, as there are many notable ones missing.

Talk Page: There is a lot of discourse and discussion about different sections, which makes sense as Gender Studies is already a highly contested topic. The article is rated at a C, which after looking at the evaluation criteria, I agree with. The talk page has more controversial discourse about the subject than we have had in class, and there seems to be more disagreement as well.

Feedback
Good work! Chronophoto (talk) 17:53, 21 September 2023 (UTC)