User:Aglis01/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Calisthenics

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article for I have always been quite intrigued by calisthenics. I grew up as a gymnasts and learned many techniques that are quite similar to techniques used in calisthenics but have never actually learned about the concepts behind it. Being able take a deeper dive into this form of physical exercise and studying the difficulty and precision in body movements that is required in this article would be a wonderful opportunity to possibly find more connections to gymnastics.

Evaluate the article
The Lead section of this article is a short introductory sentence on the basis behind what Calisthenics is. The article's major sections are not briefly covered within this section. Due to the short length of the article, not providing brief descriptions of major sections in the Lead section allowed me to continue learning as I kept reading the short sections. This section was concise and helped readers understand that Calisthenics is the concept being discussed in this article. The information within this article seems to be up to date for the last time this article was edited was on 27 September, 2023.

The content provided in all the major sections in this article all related back to calisthenics in some type of way. These sections involved the origin, history, and even discussed exercises and forms that commonly take place within calisthenics. I wish the article would have had more information regarding the Benefits of calisthenics. All of the other information was helpful when learning what the content behind calisthenics was, but being able to expand more on the benefits would have been wonderful to read up on. This article does not address topics related to any underrepresented populations or topics.

The overall tone of the article was very neutral. When reading the article, bias was not present anywhere for this article was more of an informative article. We can see that the purpose behind this article was to just inform readers on what calisthenics is and giving examples of different exercises and forms done in calisthenics. The majority of the information mentioned in the article were shown to be from studies and not from opinions.

There are a variety of sources and references being used throughout this article. The dates of sources range from 1993 to 2022. Variety of facts range from multiple sources that do not have bias within them. When clicking on few sources, I was directed to valid sources that showed the information that is being stated. There were a few that were outdated and did not directly brig me to the information. Many of the facts mentioned were facts that were developed to expand the knowledge behind and of calisthenics. The diversity behind the sources come from articles, books, school journals, and other sources, thus developing a larger perspective on this concept.

The article is very well written. All subjects sections are concise and the grammar used throughout the entire article was very good. Usage of boldness and italics fit the article nicely and allowed the article to flow in a better manner. The subjects the article was broken down into were appropriate for the concept and helped the article thoroughly expand on what exactly calisthenics is.

The visuals and images used in the article all show some form of calisthenics being represented. Each subject got its own photo to help the concept be explained and each picture had appropriate descriptions as well. Photos that needed to be cited looked as if they followed the Wikipedia copyright regulations.

The talk page for this article have a lot of fix-ups mentioned. There seems to be some talk on certain exercises that were mentioned as examples and merging of information to help the overall layout of the article be simplified as well. Overall, the talk section just appeaes to be some suggestions and ideas from others.

The article has been rated as start-class and could defintiely be improved in a lot of aspect. Like I had stated earlier, tajing an deeper dive on its benefits would be great for the article for calisthenics has been increasing in pratice since the pandemic had hit.