User:SmileEveryday34/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Air quotes

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I randomly chose this page to evaluate, but I can see how this article would be useful to people from other cultures who don't utilize this gesture since it greatly changes the meaning of whatever was said.

Evaluate the article
This article has a moderate lead section. The lead section clearly describes what the article is about, is concise, and includes an introductory sentence. However, the lead section does not provide the reader with a description of later sections in the article.

All of the content included in the article is relevant to the topic of air quotes, however, many of the sources are older than 20 years and should be updates. Also, content explaining in the "History" section doesn't clearly explain the history of the gesture, but rather showcases examples and dips into the different possible interpretations. Most of these sources are also from tv shows and movies. This content should be replaced with more reputable sources that explain the history of air quotes. The meaning section also only has one sentence. This should be expanded upon with more sources. Furthermore, this content only explains what this gesture means in the US, but does not touch upon if the gesture means something else in other countries and cultures. Adding this would provide more of a world-wide view and understanding of the topic, ensuring no population is underrepresented.

The article mostly keeps a neutral tone until discussing ex-President Donald Trump where the author uses more emotionally-charged words such as "erroneously" and "criticized", showing clear bias in the writing. This wording should be removed to keep a more balanced article.

This article should try utilizing sources from academic publications such as journals to convey the information. This would provide a neutral, widely accepted explanation of air quotes and cut down on the use of author opinion and interpretation when explaining what TV shows or movie characters meant when using air quotes on screen. Furthermore, there are only 6 sources cited on this article when there should be more to give a better explanation to users.

The article is easy to read, but does have some typos and word choices that could be improved upon. The article's sections of History and Meaning are also good to include in the layout, but should be expanded upon.

This article only has 1 visual element featured, a gif of someone doing air quotes. This visual is helpful for understanding what exactly the gesture is and the caption helps further this understanding. The gif is also next to the lead section which helps capture user attention and help illustrate the topic's definition discussed in the section.

The talk page for this article features users discussing possible other sources to add. They also discuss how the gesture is used since it can differ from country to country or even state to state. The activity in this talk page shows that there is a lot of uncertainty around this topic and a lack of reputable sources to provide accurately information.

This article is a category C article since it is missing a lot of information, lacks reputable sources, and has biased writing. The articles' strengths are that the layout of explaining the gesture's history and meaning are good, it has a useful visual aid, and the lead section has promise. However, the article could be improved by adding more worldly perspectives on the gesture, adding more reputable sources, removing bias writing, and expanding upon the sections. I would say that this article is under developed or poorly developed since it has many issues and doesn't have a lot of content to it.

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