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= Article Evaluation - Katherine Philips = Evaluating Content

The article on Katherine Philips sometimes presents information which may be considered somewhat trivial (listing the pastoral names that Philips and her friends and acquaintances assign themselves, for example), while omitting large chunks of information regarding Philips' background, childhood, education, etc. The entire first section of the article, titled Early Years, could use a fair bit of fleshing out, as it makes some general claims about Philips (for example, that she "broke with Presbyterian traditions") without really explaining what this entails or why it is relevant to the rest of her life and career.

Evaluating Tone

The article's tone seems, at times, somewhat uncertain. The author(s) tend to make biased suggestions rather than state facts, which makes the whole text seem a little shaky, thus diminishing its reliability. This can be observed notably when the text states that Philips led her Society of Friendship with "wit, elegance and clarity," without attributing these qualifications of Philips' leadership to a quotation from anyone present at the time and without inserting any kind of source citation near this claim.

In part of the Career section of the article, the author(s) also dabble in a bit of literary analysis, drawing on some scholarly sources, which seemed a little out of place within encyclopedic text, which should be based on neutral facts, rather than an essay-like thesis.

Evaluating Sources

The information presented in the article is rarely backed up by relevant sources, and very few citations appear within the body of the text. Some of the sources used and cited, such as Encyclopaedia Britannica, lack depth and contain very little detail, aside from generalities such as Philips' date of birth and the like. Though two academic sources are cited, they are, as mentioned above, used in a kind of literary analysis which doesn't really fit in with Wikipedia's format and goals.

Checking the Talk Page

The article's Talk page shows very little interaction between editors, with the only two conversations there being a short debate as to whether Katherine Philips' surname was spelled with one or two "p"s, as well as a short contribution from 2009 rectifying the age of Philips' husband at the time of the couple's marriage.

= URL to access New Sandbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sarahbiss96/New_sandbox?action=edit (where Katherine Philips Article is Drafted) =