User:Zoeberit/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Dress, 2015.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I remember this going viral in middle school and it rocked my world for about a week. I never knew the full story, though, and never thought to investigate why it went viral.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section:

 Content: 
 * The first sentence pretty much describes the whole internet phenomenon and what the discourse was about. It is concise and specific.
 * Yes. The lead talks about the origins of the photo, how it relates to human perception of color, various reactions that the photo received online, and conclusions about the actual color of the dress and what happened as a result of the attention it received.
 * No. All the above mentioned information is the only information that is included in the rest of the article.
 * It has all the necessary information you would need if you just wanted a summary of the most important events surrounding The Dress.


 * Yes. All the sections are pertinent to The Dress, the people who participated in the event, and what happened. There is no section that seems like a reach.
 * The last edit on this page was from this month. Since it is about a one-time event, I would say that all the information is up-to-date. That there has been revisions since then is also promising.
 * The event itself didn't have a lot to do with the representation of marginalized communities or topics. I suppose that the scientific explanation section could have talked about the different theories in how they relate to underrepresented communities but I'm not sure if there was any original coverage to begin with on that. The article did touch on how the original owners of that image felt like they had been pushed out of the narrative and had no control over the story after it went viral.

 Tone and Balance: 


 * Yes. There were no parts that felt personalized or argumentative.
 * The legacy section has one sentence devoted how the original owners of the picture felt left out of the narrative. This could have been expanded upon, but there was still ample information in the origin section that described the logistics of how the picture came to be.
 * There are no minority or fringe viewpoints that I can see. Everything seems pretty balanced (aside from the point above).

 Sources and References: 


 * All sources used where current at the time when this image went viral. The scientific explanation section is especially current, as it cites studies/reports that were done as a result of this event.
 * A lot of the information about The Dress was found and made online, so a lot of the sources cited are actual posts that were made about it, or articles that were written about it when it first went viral. All the information in the scientific explanation part is also cited from academic articles.
 * There is a broad variety of sources, as well as genders and backgrounds of the people who wrote the sources. Also, there is equal representation of how the average person on the internet saw it, and what some celebrities and companies said about it.
 * The five random sources I checked all worked and went to the sites they said they would.

 Organization and Writing Quality: 


 * Yes, the article is very easy to read.
 * If there were any grammatical/spelling errors they did not impede the flow of the article.
 * I think the sections flow together well and major points are organized into good topics.

 Images and media: 


 * Yes. There is the original photo of The Dress, pictures to aid in understanding the scientific explanation (diagrams), and blocked quotes that are important.
 * One of the images only has the name of the quoted person (although they are fully introduced in the adjacent paragraph), but all other images are well captioned.
 * Yes, they all adhere to Wiki's copyright regulations.
 * All the images are laid out in an organized manner and sit next to the section/paragraph that they are enhancing.

 Talk Page Discussion: 


 * There are mostly discussions that happened in 2015. They range from what the actual original photo should look like, to a letter from Paul Jinks, who was credited as one of the original owners of the photo.
 * This article is listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles and is part of 4 WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Fashion
 * WikiProject Internet culture
 * WikiProject Psychology
 * WikiProject Women

 Overall Impressions: 


 * This article was a great read. I learned a lot of information that I didn't know beforehand about The Dress.
 * This article is listed as one of Wiki's Good Articles, so it already very well written and edited. I do not see anything that would need changing and until I take a deeper dive into studying this particular topic, I am not sure what else I could add to this to make it better.