User:AbuyemenTA/Evaluate an Article

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

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.)

I chose Yemen to evaluate because it is where my parents were born and raised and where I am originally from. My preliminary impression of the article is that it has alot of great information but it is very wordy.

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

After going over the lead section I believe that it provides a good summary. My initial impression was it brings up multiple topics after reviewing other countries articles it is average. In my opinion I think it is overwhelming and can be reduced.

Content

The content in the Article ranges the ancient history of Yemen has a great section but the modern history and some important events are not covered as well and some of the content is out of date.

Tone and Balance

The Article on Yemen seems to be written by Yemenis and because of the ongoing civil war and history of Yemen the article seems to take sides. There is also parts of the article where it favors Yemen over other countries.

Sources and references

The Sources and References of the article vary some are great sources and some sources are not so great in reliability. In just the Introduction many of facts are not sourced.

Organization and writing quality

The article is not very clear some topics are very wordy and it is very hard to understand the main point. The article does a great job in it's organization although it can be broken down into more sections.

Images and Media

The images are nicely cited and follow wikipedia's copyright regulations. Some of the images are not very well captioned and can use some work.

Talk Page discussions

The article is part of you guessed it WikiProject Yemen The article has a B class rating. Many of the discussions on the talk page are about how to improve the ratings of the article and many of the editors recommended summarizing because the article is to wordy it is very hard to find the main point.

Overall Impressions

My overall Impression of the article is that it has many great and Interesting topics but it also lacks many for example it can use much more information about recent events. The article also is missing sources to back up information. The article Has a great Ancient History section that is greatly sourced and provides much information. In my Opinion this article is underdeveloped and in some areas poorly developed.