User:1326mmb/Evaluate an Article

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Edo people - Wikipedia

Why have you chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because many aspects and characteristics of the Edo community are missing, especially those stating information about the Oba and the attire that the Oba would wear as well as the different rituals that would take place within the Benin kingdom. My first impression of it was that it was an incredibly short article, there were many aspects of Edo culture left out that could be included. Overall, this article lacks many things, pictures, information, reliable resources, just to name a few. With this information, the article is underdeveloped, possibly even poorly developed since it is lacking an entire section of the Edo people, Benin Kingdom, history. This article can be improved by using resources that are research based and using multiple research-based articles, as well as captioning images so the reader can have a better understanding of what the image is showing and how it relates to the article and the information being given.

Evaluate the article.
The first paragraph of the lead section gives a detailed description of who the Edo people are and where they originate within Africa. It also mentions what language they speak, therefore giving a small overview over who the Edo people are. The lead section only mentions one other major section of the article, however, that other major article has no information, therefore, does not really give much in depth information about who the Edo people are. The lead section includes information that should be included in the history portion of the article.

The article "Art of the Kingdom of Benin" could definitely be used as part of the history section of the article to give more insight into the history of Benin art and the art that the Edo community produced and along with "Oba of Benin" could this article also be used to inform the reader of past Oba's within the Benin kingdom because the history section from that article is also missing.

The article overall seems to be neutral; it does not seem to be biased towards any viewpoint. The article includes information that could be refined because it does not explain nor give a good idea of who the Edo are and what the Benin kingdom did as a whole.

Many aspects are left out, including the regalia that the Oba would wear and the different products that the Oba had control over, items such as bronze. The whole history section is missing which leaves much information out that could inform the reader of who the Edo people are and what the Benin kingdom is and how an Oba is chosen and what goes on throughout the kingdom.

The article uses a wide variety of resources, except some seem like they do not pertain to the topic of article, so some of the resources definitely need to be relooked at and have better, more educated resources. For example, there is an article pertaining to how the Yoruba people disagree over the origin of their name, which does not correlate with the Edo people at all. Another example of a poor source is that there is an article about a professor who shares his journey to stardom, which is highly irrelevant to the Edo people. There are so many poor sources on the Edo article that I could probably write a two-page paper.

The article is easy to read, however, the article repeats similar information from the lead section to the administrative region section. There are a few grammatical errors but overall, the article is spot on with its spelling. The article is split into sections, but there is not much information within these sections that could give the reader a great understanding of the Edo people. Regarding images on the article, there are a few images that can help the reader understand the topic. A few images are not captioned well, for example, one image is captioned "Tunic" and there is no other information regarding that piece of clothing nor image. The images are all over the place, they are not placed in a aesthetically pleasing pattern within the article.

On the talk page, there is no conversation about the information being presented besides that the Edo people are great and have rich culture and tradition. This article once was part of a WikiProject between January 2020 to April 2020 and the article is rated as stub-class on the projects quality scale. They talk about it as just a group of people who has a kingdom and produces art, whereas in class, we talk about them as a community and who have certain uses for their art.