User:UICLing/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Language documentation

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
We are trying to flesh out existing Wikipedia material for our class project and this information fits in well.

Evaluate the article
Lead section contains an introductory sentence that makes sense for the topic but don't necessarily correspond to the items in the table of contents. The lead is concise.

Content is relevant but sources are largely out of date, with the exception of one from 2018. It seems like there are other linked pages with more up-to-date information. While the topic itself is highly relevant to equity, the references appear to be written by Westerners.

I wouldn't say the article is entirely neutral, but contentious points are evidence-based (see especially "Digital Language Archives" section). Editors should be careful to use unambiguous words -- "can be overlooked" might mean "is often overlooked" or "is permitted to be overlooked."

Sources should be updated -- there has been a great deal of digital documentation that has occurred as a result of access to social media. References come largely from academic books and journals. Multiple authors were involved in editing this page, which apparently (according to the Talk page) began as a Wiki Ed assignment in 2019! Links work just fine.

Writing is clear and relevant. No grammar problems. I might have organized the article differently but it's a great start.

No images or media are apparent.

Talk page discussion is how I learned it was a Wiki Ed project. Contributor discussion set up the site and explained plans for the article.

Article status is stub-class. There are other pages (linked to this article) that may be more developed and helpful for finding information about this topic. One very useful section is the one for Organizations -- new scholars in this area may find these orgs helpful in navigating this linguistic subfield. Article needs more development. Perhaps another class can take it up.