User talk:Caitlinloh/Lottie Shackelford

Peer review

General info Whose work are you reviewing? Caitlinloh Link to draft you're reviewing: User:Caitlinloh/Lottie Shackelford

Bibliography: (1) all the links are accessible without any paywall/subscription barriers

(2) all the links do come from credible sources, however, they are from organizations that are associated with a more partisan agenda so I would say to mitigate this, you would want to include more articles to ensure that no one can fight you on bias

(3) grow bibliography to more than three links to have more credibility, content, etc

Article:

Early Life: I enjoyed how it was all chronological, even when discussing the lives of her family/spouses to keep the information concise and also extremely readable

Career: (1) For parts of her life that are "case and effect" base, I feel that there is more explanation needed, which would only be a few words. EX: "Shackelford first ran for office in the 1974 election for Little Rock's Board of Directors, which she lost." If this is the start of her career, it is worth explaining why there was such a loss (help you see her journey and what she had to fight through, gives her accomplishments more power because you see where she came from, etc)

(2) When you mention positions that Lottie Shackelford held, I think it is worth linking the Wiki definition of those positions so that you do not have to waste space explaining (which you don't) but also gives the reader opportunity to see her in this fuller picture. EX: "For the past several decades, Shackelford has worked with the Democratic Party at the state and national level. She served as Secretary, Vice Chair, and Chair of the Arkansas State Democratic Committee, and was elected Secretary of the National Association of State Democratic Chairs. A member of the DNC since the early 1980s, Shackelford served as Co-Chair of the Platform Committee in 1984 and of the Rules Committee in 1988, and on the Resolutions Committee.[1]" <-- For positions like Platform Committee, Rules Committee, Resolutions Committee which are positions that the general public might not know, it is worth linking where they could learn about what these positions are.

In conclusion, your article seems very structured by having dates/chronology guide it, however, I would just say that while you are writing be mindful of making sure there is connective tissue between her career jumps (because there always is a reason people switch from place to place) so that her biography looks less like a list and more like her story.