User:Snickerchip/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Marcia Tiburi

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 we read excerpts written by her for class a couple of weeks ago. I believe understanding the woman who wrote what we read in class will allow me to appreciate her more as a philosopher, as well as introduce me to more of her work. My first impression of Tiburi's Wikipedia page is that it is rather short and mostly covers her academic career, which is slightly disappointing; this does not appear to be the case in the more detailed Portuguese version of this article.

Evaluate the article
The lead introductory sentence does a good job of concisely and clearly describing Marica Tiburi, though the lead itself does not include an outline of the article's major sections. I believe this is due to the fact that the article only has one section outside of the uncategorized introductory section. While the lead article includes information that is technically not explicitly listed in the rest of the article, it does provide context for the type of work that Tiburi publishes in listing the categories of philosophy in which she specializes. Overall, I believe the lead is just detailed enough to inform anyone who decides to skim this article, while not going into too much detail too early on.

Despite the fact that all of the content in this article is related or relevant to Tiburi's life, it is not up to date: the most recent reference was published in 2019, over five years ago. From looking at the length of this article and its Portuguese version, It is clear that much is missing from it, from personal details of her life to her brief political career, to her public image, to even a more detailed outline of her published works. Given that this is an article about a woman of European descent from Global South, it brings light to an academic that while not being racially underrepresented in her field has been geographically underrepresented.

This article appears to be neutral and not heavily skewed toward any particular point of view. Then again, this is an article that boasts more content (and opportunity for bias) in another language, so each version of this article might have different levels of bias or opinion being over or underrepresented in the tone of the writing. The article, in English, does not appear to attempt to persuade the reader toward a certain opinion, one way or another.

While having a lot of valuable information, this article has many facts that are not backed up by reliable secondary sources of information: there are even entire paragraphs without citations. I don't believe that the sources reflect the available literature on Tirubi's life and work. The sources available also, as I previously mentioned, are not recent, with the most recent one being from 2019. While the sources I tested do work, I have found that there are better sources available on Tirubi. Additionally, while the sources are linguistically and geographgically diverse, there are only five sources and are not diverse racially or utilize references by historically underrepresented groups.

I do believe, overall, that this is a well written and well-organized article, without grammatical or spelling errors. I wish these paragraphs were expanded upon so that we could better understand who Tiburi is and what she has done.

Unfortunately, the article only has one image, and it is not well captioned. This one image does seem to be cited correctly according to Wikipedia's copyright rules.

There are currently no conversations taking place on this Wikipedia's Talk page. This article is not rated, but it is of interest of a few WikiProjects, including: Biography, Women writers, Philosophy (philosophers), Brazil (arts), Women in Red (Women Philosopher 2017). This article talks more about Tiburi's life than what we discussed in class, since the main focus of our class discussion was her work, Trecho de Filosofia prática.

This article's overall status seems to be neither good nor bad, though it is noted at the top of the article that additional citations are needed for it. Its strengths include that it is written neutrally, concisely, and well. It could be improved by adding more images, expanding on Tirubi's life outside of her academic career, including more references and citing more sentences. I believe this article is underdeveloped but has potential.