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Which article are you evaluating?
José Domingo Gómez Rojas

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose it because he is an important figure in the Cry of the Renegade, the current reading assignment in HST 3660. It matters because with the territory of the Cry of the Renegade, he is a spark within the revolutions within Chile, and a leader. My first impression is that it is a very short article for how important he seems to be here. There are only 2 sections, with about 6 paragraphs in total.

Evaluate the article
Beginning with the lead section, it is short and to the point, but that is the main issue. In total, the entire section is only about 32 words, describing José Domingo Gómez Rojas as a poet and anarchist, and the only victim of Don Ladislao's War. While this does describe who Rojas was, it does not describe the three major sections whatsoever, leaving the reader to have no clue what the rest of the article is about. But it does not have any information that is not later present in the article. Overall, having this leading section is better than having nothing at all, but it for sure could be improved by taking information from the body of the article.

The overall content of this article is good, but like the leading section, lacking. All of it is relevant to Rojas, with the format being the most distracting. From what is there, nothing seems to be out of date based on the references provided. One issue is that it does not fully represent Rojas work as an anarchist within the many Federations he joined, including the University of Chile Student Federation, the Chilean Workers' Federation (FOCH), and Industrial Workers of the World. This is something that would need to be corrected as this is a major part of Chilean History and does not fully represent that idea. Sections just on his works as a poet and his work within all these anarchist groups would most likely improve the article as it would present Rojas more as a person, and not just as a political figure.

The article appears to be neutral, but it can be hard to tell with such little information within the article. This can also be said with balance. His early life is fairly covered, as well as Rojas end of life. It's that middle section, that would be filled with the work within federations that would need to be covered. But it is also likely that this is not covered very well just because Rojas died young. There doesn't seem to be any attempted swaying towards one side or the other, again that could be the lack of information.

The sources links all seem to work, though they are all in Spanish or locked behind a paywall. Because of this, it is impossible to tell if the sources are remotely true, or unbiased, therefore should almost be written off entirely, unless there are better ways then google translate to be able to get the English versions of the sources, or a way to get around the paywall.

To be honest, the writing is almost the best part of the article. It is a simple read, therefore easy to understand the entire article. There does not seem to be any errors in the grammar or spelling. But, the sections could be broken up better. As stated earlier, this article would greatly benefit from sections of Rojas direct work within federation anarchist groups and a section specifically on his work as a poet.

The media on this page is subpar, with only 3 images, all laid out on the right side of the article. All of the are captions, but one of the captions is in Spanish due to what the image is, which in this case is a play wrote in tribute to Rojas. What helps this article the most though is the piece of literature by Rojas that is given within the article. The images though, and Cry for Mercy would be benefited by being moved.

There is nothing on the talk page sadly. No discussions, no mentions of edits or creation, just the ratings. In both the biography portal and the poetry portal that this article is a apart of it has been rated as stub-class, which is the lowest grade a article can receive. Within the Poetry portal it has been rated as a low importance page within the project.

Overall this page needs a fair amount of work. It could use a better formatting in order to draw readers in, and could use better formatting in order to make the article be broken up better. It is underdeveloped, but with new sources and some love from some people, this article could be one that is great.