User:Vicccshi/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
!Women Art Revolution

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article aims to introduce a documentary film that talking about feminist art movement, and I think the idea of this article is related to the main theme of our course-- Women Filmmakers. In the article, the author gives a comprehensive introduction to the main idea of the film, the social context during the filmmaking period, and the reception of the film. When reading this article at the first time, I get the film's plot, central idea, as well as its reputation clearly, so I think this is a good article on Wikipedia.

Evaluate the article
- Lead Section

The lead section of this article use a content list to give the viewers a concise overview of what he/she is going to talk about in the article. Also, it give us a brief summary of the main idea of the film which serves aa a description of the main section. The content list as well as the brief summary work together to give the readers a clear guideline about what they are going to read in the following contents.

-Content

Everything in the article is relevant to the article topic, all revolving around the film !Women Art Revolution and serving to give the film an exhausted explanation including its plot, cast, reception, and etc. There is no content not belong to the article. Even the author provide lots of information in the article, he/she get a good balance. The author put more focus on the synopsis and the reception of the film, while just give brief introduction to its cast, award, and release because they are comparatively less important for the understanding of the film. What is worth to notice is that, although the author just give us a list with the cast without introducing them in this article, he/she provide a reference link to each actors in case we want to get a more comprehensive understanding of it. The tone of the author is neutral, largely describing a fact without personal opinion. However, in the synopsis, I expect I can read a little bit more about the plot of the film in order to better understanding the content later. Also, I found there is no citation in the synopsis section: the whole section is kind of the author's summary of the film as a whole. So, I wonder where those information comes from and the validity of the information.

Furthermore, I think this article organized in a good way, clearly divide the section of the article and provide different aspects that the author talks about. His/her language is also easy to understand, without elusive words and sentences.

-Reference link and citation

I clicked on several links and they all lead me to the right place, and the information the author provide really help to the understand of the article. Also, by looking through the citation link, the sources of the information are neutral and most of them comes from reliable sources, such as Stanford library. However, there are some sources comes from interview and random website that are not so reliable. Moreover, I think the sources that the author read through is enough for this relative short article, but it could be more diverse.

- Talk page

The talk page indicates that this article is within the WikiProject Film and it is rated as a C-Class quality article. It's interesting that a person says that this article is "copy paste from the movie's press kit" and the author reply that he didn't violent the copyright policy. I think maybe the author really should cite the source that his information comes from.

In all, I think this is a good article, which let me get a thoroughly understanding of the film after reading it. If the author can cite more clearly about his/her source and use more reliable source for the article, the article would be better.