User:Aidanmjordan/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Dancing plague of 1518

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.) It sounded very interesting to me and wanted to see what it was, how I could learn more about it, and how I could portray that information to readers. It matters because it is apart of history and could help us learn how different plagues affect people. I did not know what it was when I first heard it, I assumed it somehow linked dancing and sickness, which is partly true. However, I did not realize how this could be done.

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.)

The lead introductory sentence clearly and concisely tells us what the article is about, I think this is done well. It also provides a contents section with different links to the main topics of the article. Overall the lead is done well. The content is relevant to the topic and is mostly up to date. I think there are a few areas that could be improved upon. The article does not appear biased in any way and remains neutral. I believe that it is fairly well written, there do no seem to be any major spelling or grammar mistakes. There is only one image in the article.It effectively applies and enhances the article, with a good caption too. I think that there could be more information found and that some of the sources are a bit unreliable.