User:Tewert23/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mary Beaumont Welch

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose it because we talked a little in class about her and I found her an interesting part of the history of FCS. I figured since there isn't a lot about FCS in Wikipedia that there wouldn't be a ton here so its good to evaluate as a possible topic. We researched her in our FCS scavenger hunt as one of the founders of Family Consumer Sciences and learned a little bit about her and wanted to learn more.

Evaluate the article
Everything in this article was quick and straight to the point, nothing distracting or off topic. The information can't really be out of date considering she was a historical figure, but I feel like there could have been way more added to this page. It is quite short and doesn't go into much detail. I think this article under represents the importance of her and all she did in her life, especially for FCS. It just briefly touches on the things she did and does not go into detail about it.

The lead section gives a good short overview of her life and pretty much all of the major points. There is a good amount of sources, but not a ton of content. I feel like it could have used some more about her specific efforts to FCS instead of just her education and cookbook. I would say that the tone is neutral there really aren't any claims that have a bias in general. It's very basic facts. There aren't any crazy views that would take away the credibility of the author. Like I said before, there is a good amount of sources for how little content is actually on the page itself. It's really only about a total of 4 paragraphs with 7 sources used which is pretty good. All the sources I clicked on seem reliable, mostly from Iowa which is where she attended school. Although that could be perceived as biased the sources are also pretty neutral. For example, one of the sources is simply a timeline of events about Mary Beaumont Welch. I would say there is an array of sources, not two come from the same source and they are pretty diverse.

When I went to read the talk page for this article I discovered nothing there. The only thing I saw was "start the discussion" which leads me to believe there is no talk page. Although there isn't a talk page, it was created/edited with the project 'Women's rights initiative' hosted by the 'Women in Red' project in 2021.

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