User:Violetlopaze6/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
I am evaluation the article Feminist effects on society.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have chosen the article about feminist effects on society because I feel that it follows the themes we have been learning in our communicating feminism class so far. This topic and article matters because it conveys the accomplishments and consequences of the feminist movement in society, in an unbiased way. My initial impression of the article was that it covered several specific areas that were effected by the feminist movement instead of focusing on just one area. The article seemed to have many citations and many statistics backing up their statements.

Evaluate the article
Lead:

The article Feminist effects on society is led with a short sentence that lists each topic that the article later covers. The sentence does not go in depth with details but only gives a brief overview of the areas of society they would be writing about. However, the lead then goes on to specifically cite a professor's specific quote about something not related to the lead. This second part of the lead focused solely on male violence against women in a very specific way. The lead started off strong but ended too specific and off topic. I would recommend taking the second part of the lea out and just keeping the concise first sentence

Content:

The content in this article is extremely relevant and focuses on the most important topics in society that have been effected by feminism. The article focuses on religious, societal, and law orientated topics. To begin, there is an overview of general women's rights and the history of laws that have been passed in order to protect women. The women's rights section also gives a description of organizations created for women. This section not only gives important information about feminist movements but also focuses on how these movements have effected society and rights for women. The article goes on to highlight international law, reproductive law, language, religion, and gender roles. Not only are these sections relevant, but they are also up-to-date. They cover recent laws that have been passed, like the overruling of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case. This content gives recognition to women and brings to light the injustices and inequalities they have always faced. However, this article does not highlight minority groups or the inequalities they face in the feminist movement. Although this article does not cover minority groups, it details various religion groups and how they have effected or been effected by feminism.

Tone and Balance:

The article Feminist effects on society is written in a neutral tone that is not biased towards any gender. They back up all of their statements with statistics or specific citations that allow the article to have credibility. Although the article is not biased towards any specific gender, minority groups and LGBTQ+ perspectives are not covered within the article. There is a lot of information covered about feminism in religion but only a small amount covered in the section about reproductive health.

Sources and References:

As I have stated before, this article backs up every fact with citations or specific statistics. After looking through many of the sources to check their credibility, I found that many came from university research or credible news outlets. These sources were written by various genders, religions, and cultures. This allows for many perspectives and more diversity to be represented. The sources came from a variety of outlets that again allows for diversity in thought and perspective

Organization and writing quality:

The article is very well written grammatically but the organization can be improved. The lead started off strong but then randomly goes into statistics about violence against women. These topics do not make sense together and a specific section could have been made to speak on violence against women. Later in the article, the religion section is split into "religion" and "theology." However, these two sections could be incorporated into one section. The religion section is detailed and almost two paragraphs while the theology section is only a few sentences long.

Images and Media:

In this article there are only two images. One of the images was very tiny and in he corner, so it was hard to see. The pictures make sense for the article, but they are not the strongest images that could have been used. The picture used for the gender roles section was of a book they had not even mentioned in that section of the article. The citations did not include a source of where the photos had come from.

Talk Page Discussion:

Many of the conversations on the talk page are readers giving constructive criticism to help better the article. There was a discussion about the title of the article and how it should be worded differently in order to better convey the contents of the article. Something that was pointed out in the talk page that I had not realized was how some of the wording in the article did imply bad things about men. They also said in order to truly represent this topic, not only the good effects of feminism should be mentioned but also the negative effects. This article was rated C-Class and it is a part of the WikiProject sociology and feminism. Wikipedia differs in talking of these subjects by having a completely unbiased view. They also source facts and state statistics.

Overall Impressions:

The overall status of this article is C-class. The strengths of this article are its sourcing and citations. The article is backed up by specific citations at every place it needs to be. The article was easy to understand and used not only example from the past but also stated modern day examples. This article could be improved in many ways. More relevant images could be used to help convey their message and present a visual way to understand the article. The organization of this article could be better in that some of it is split up in random areas. Although this article is mostly unbiased and states the perspectives of many women, minorities and LGBTQ+ groups are underrepresented. I think this article is underdeveloped but it just needs some work on fixing the issues I previously stated.