User:WSURodralec/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Ellen Phelan

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

This artist is familiar in my universities art collection and is an important artist to study. A decent description of her achievements but lacking and misformation

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

- Lead section is sparse and minimal link to the body

- Content is also sparse and some information is lacking a source. Career portion refers to a small time frame and source pool to pull from. Furthermore it seems to all come from one author- lacking more perspective about her work is a disadvantage

Missing citation or incorrect citation links- for example, reference to the Harvard program is not followed by a link.

- While having a neutral tone, as stated above there is heavy reliance on one particular author

- Sources are limited- For example, there is an important review linked here the relates to her retrospective exhibition in 2012 that’s was easy to find. Amongst other information that is missing and easily discoverable http://www.artnews.com/art-in-America/aka-review/ellen-phelan-61297/

Several links are outdated and not functioning.

- For a limited entry the organization is functional but if more where to be added it would need additional headers and organization.

- No images are present and the article would greatly benefit as the subject is a painter.

- There are not any talk page discussions present.

- While there is no rating present, it is a part of 3 wiki projects including women artists which is an underrepresented group.

In talking about biography of artists and the challenges surrounding finding credible resources, a lot of these resources are not available on the web. Especially in a such a subjective area as art/artist/art review- it’s important these links and information gets published.