User:SilverScreen'sSilverLining/Evaluate an Article

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(Provide a link to the article here.)Toronto International Film Festival

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 was in the film festival section of the c-class articles. I am a graduate film studies student interested in film festivals and wanted to see how this large North American festival is presented on Wikipedia.

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(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.)

No linked citation the Variety article quoted in paragraph four of the lead section.

The section about the audience People's Choice Award in the lead should be moved to the awards section to make the lead section more concise and focused.

Piers Handling is no longer the director and CEO of TIFF this is not mentioned in the background section.

The last two sections under the background setting have no citations. It would be useful for readers to be able to learn more about kids festival and the traveling circuit.

The word "parochial" is the first paragraph of the history section is not an accessible word perhaps it should be changed to "narrow minded" or another word that is more accessible to readers.

In the history category delete the word "and" at the end of the sentence on the first bullet point under the sentence about Perspective Canada being replaced by two programs.

Delete the word "Otherwise" at the beginning of line number 13 in the History section.

Bellow line 13 in the history section should be another subheading perhaps reading "Controversies" or "Notable Moments". The information bellow line 13 of this section seems to be at odds with what comes above it.

Under the TIFF Bell Lightbox heading the Film Reference Library section has no citations.

In the first sentence of the Awards heading the People's Choice award is described as the festivals "major prize" it should be described as to why this is the festivals most coveted prize. Is the prize the largest (monetarily) or is it most coveted because it acts as a pipeline to the Oscars? Readers may want more information about the succession of prizes and their weight at the festival.

Under the Sections heading the "Masters" bullet point includes a quote but no citation.

There are no mentions of Indigenous filmmakers at the festival. In the context of this festivals location in Canada, a colonial state on Indigenous land, this is a large gap in knowledge of the types of films this festival screens. It assumes the imagined community of Canada as homogenous, whereas this is a contested point in the country. Furthermore, Indigenous filmmakers' in Canada are making and have made notable achievements in filmmaking that have been recognized at this festival. It would be nice to see this highlighted.

Most of the sources are from notable newspapers but some are from trade magazines which heavily favour a commercial Hollywood prospective of filmmaking. Diversified sources from Film Festival Studies resources like scholars who have written about these festivals in academic journals and books published by academic presses are missing.

In the talk page there are Wikipedians talking about the festivals highlight of Tel Aviv but otherwise no mention of the politics of the festival. No mention of a need to highlight diversity.