User:Someonestolemysweetroll/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Committee on Evil Literature

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This is one of the Wiki pages that I am using for my Thesis and while this provided me with the information I was looking for, I figured it would be beneficial in more than one respect to evaluate this article.

Evaluate the article
The Lead Section begins with a banner asking for additional citations for verification. I know the information on this page is correct as it corresponds with information I've found in books and on related Wiki pages with significantly more citations. The lead itself is neutral and gives the relevant historical context, as well as specific dates and persons.

The content is as relevant as it can get seeing as this Committee was established and disbanded in the early 20th century. That being said, everything within the article is factual and lines up with what I have found in the archives of the Irish Parliament and the Irish Statutes Book. In a way it speaks to the history of an equity gap. One of the specified items on the list of recommended prohibitions was anything on women's sexual and reproductive health. At this point in time magazines, periodicals and publications could all have been considered forms of media, and these were being targeted and removed from public consumption. While it doesn't directly address underserved populations, it does reinforce how hegemonic the dominant cultural group can become when gone unchecked under the guise of religion.

Overall the article reads like cardboard, which in this instance is a good thing since it has to do with the government of Ireland in the 1920's. Nothing within the article suggests that the writer was asking us to favor one side or the other.

The sources used to create this article come from related Wiki pages. I believe carrying over the pertinant ones would prove useful in boost the strength of this specific article. This page does offer a digitized version of the Committee's Report which was scanned from the Dublin Stationary Office, which is about as authentic as it gets with older historical documents. Although the article lacks a citation page, it does link out to two, much much larger articles with a plethora of citations.

This article follows the historical timeline very clearly, and moves from the earliest iterations in 1925, all the way to the the Censorship of Publications Board Act of 1929 (which still exists today). The article also mentions the expansion of the Censorship Act of 1929 in both 1946 and 1967. There are no grammatical errors and the article follows a clear structure.

There are no images included within the article, and the article does not run the risk of infringing on Wikipedia's copyright policies.

While there is nothing listed in the 'Talk' tab, but there was one user who frequently appeared on the 'Version History' tab. When I searched this users contribution I found that they have spent years contributing to other Wiki pages on the history of Ireland.

The article is rated as 'Start-Class' on the projects quality scale. I believe its strength lies in its brevity. While the consequences of the initial Committee have been far reaching the article does an excellent job of keeping within the scope of the Committee's actions without speculating or asking the reader to think one way or another. I think the article would be a little stronger if some of the citations were brought in from the larger articles. Aside from that, the article serves its purpose and adding any additional content would only serve to obscure the information already presented.