User:Soupx2/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
African-American LGBT community

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.)

As an African American in the LGBT community, this means a lot to me. It matters because black people are important, and gay people are important. So, this article is double important. My initial impression of the article was okay, as there are many obvious things wrong with the article, without needing to delve deeply into it.

Evaluate the article
Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

- No, the sections of the article mainly stayed on topic in all sections.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

- Yes, there are charts presenting economic disparities that are almost ten years old. Newer charts and information should be added.

Can you identify any notable equity gaps? Does the article underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations?

- No.

What else could be improved?

- Sources need to be citations, statements need citations, sources need to be updated.

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

- The article does a good job bat staying neutral given that the subject can be hard to stay neutral.

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

- Not in my opinion, no.

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

- I found some links that do not work, but of the ones that do, they definitely support the claims made in the article.

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

- Many facts have no references, so they seem to be baseless claims. Ones that do though, have some sources that are not working (this may be a me issue), or the page is not found at all. There are sources cited from companies that are famously leaning one way or another politically, so there is some bias evident in some articles citied. Many sources are studies and published; those don't show any apparent bias.

Do the sources come from a diverse array of authors and publications?

- Yes.