User:Rvkl93/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title:Clare Atwood
 * Article Evaluation:The article's content is generally relevant to the topic. Not everything has a citation; I noticed especially that the paragraph on Atwood's early life is missing citations. All of the information pertains to Clare Atwood, but there are hardly any details on her career or her work. There's an overview of a few of the works she painted and there's a section that says where her paintings can be found, but outside of that there isn't much. Having a few more images of her work would help flesh this article out more as well. This article does tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps, in that it's about an artist who was a gay woman. There isn't anything on the Talk page at the moment.
 * Sources:Barlow, Clare, and Tate Britain, Host Institution. Queer British Art, 1861-1967 / Edited by Clare Barlow. 2017. Print.:

Option 2

 * Article title:Yael Bartana
 * Article Evaluation:The article's content is generally relevant to the subject. There are at least a few sentences and one paragraph (in the introductory section) that are missing citations. We also know very little about Bartana's life outside of her work, and about what drives her to create the types of works that she does (the article says that she creates work about Israeli vs Polish identity, but outside of that there isn't really anything about who she is as a person. It's also worth pointing out that I was looking for articles specifically under the subheading for lesbian artists, but I don't see any mention anywhere in the article that Bartana is gay (unless I missed it). If it's confirmed that Bartana is gay, would it not make sense for that to be a part of the article? I also noticed that her most recent listed exhibited work was in 2019. I'm curious about whether or not there are any more recent notable works and exhibitions that can be listed in the article. This article does tackle one of Wikipedia gaps, as it's about a woman artist. At the moment the only thing that Bartana's Talk page contains is a notification that unsourced notable works have been removed from the article.
 * Sources:“Yael Bartana.” Modern Painters, vol. 26, no. 3, Mar. 2014, pp. 27–29. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=vth&AN=94711398&site=ehost-live.

Option 3

 * Article title:Joiri Minaya
 * Article Evaluation:The article's content is generally relevant to the subject. However, there is one entire paragraph that was added recently that does not have a neutral or impersonal tone. It uses the first person, and is mainly an opinion on what the artist's work means and really should be removed immediately. If this opinion is coming from a cited source, that should be directly included in the article ("according to this person, Minaya's artwork is x,y,z". Everything outside of that one paragraph seems to be consistently cited. I think it would also help for this article to include images of Minaya's works, instead of just describing them. This article as whole does tackle one of Wikipedia's equity gaps, as it's about a POC artist who's also a woman. At the moment, this article's Talk page doesn't have anything on it.
 * Sources:MINAYA, JOIRI. “Binaries and Inbetweenness.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 3, 2014. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43488272 . Accessed 18 June 2023.

Option 4

 * Article title:Julian Phelps Allan
 * Article Evaluation:The article's content is generally relevant to the subject, and seems fairly cohesive in terms of describing Phelps Allan's early life, works, and personal life. I also appreciated that this article included at least one image of one of Phelps Allan's notable works. I'm not sure if there are any other articles that shed more light on why Phelps Allan changed her name, but I'd be interested in seeing if there are. The article also speculates whether or not Phelps Allan changed her name as a way of declaring her sexuality, but I'm curious about whether or not this was confirmed or if this is just speculation. I'd also be curious to see if there is any other information regarding her time serving in the military as a woman. I also wonder if there are any photos of her anywhere online. The article seems to be consistently cited. The Talk page has a notification regarding the update of some of the external links, as well as a correction regarding the titles associated with Phelps Allan's military ranking.
 * Sources:Windsor, Alan, ed. British sculptors of the twentieth century. Routledge, 2020.

Option 5

 * Article title:Mónica Briones
 * Article Evaluation:This article's content is, overall, relevant to the subject and why she is a relevant figure in Chilean history. However, there is nothing in the article pertaining to her work as an artist. The article primarily focuses on her murder and its repercussions in Chile. If possible, I definitely think that this article could be improved by adding a section on her work as a painter and sculptor, as well as images of her work. All of the facts in the article seem to have citations. The Talk page is currently empty.
 * Sources:Taylor, Claire. Place and politics in Latin American digital culture: Location and Latin American net art. Routledge, 2014.