User:Aishawithers/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
I have chosen the article Spirit for my article evaluation.

From my experience, I know that everyone has their own ideas about spirits. It is a highly controversial topic. The article is a very short article, and this is another reason I picked it.

I do not think the lead in this article contains everything. As for the shortness of the lead. I did find an incorrect date the article states that people speculated spirits as far back as 1884. I have found that it started as far back as the 1840's. I do believe the content of the text is up to date, because the sources are from 2009 to 2019. To my knowledge there is no missing information in the article.

Yes this article is neutral, because it is strictly information based. There is no argument, and the author is not trying to persuade the reader of anything. The article is based on the assumption that the reader already believes in spirits.This assumption is biased in the sense that it does not persuade the reader if it is real or not. it just information based about spirits. If a reader was trying to find an article on whether or not they were real this would not be the article for them.

There are 15 sources for this article which I find acceptable for the length of the article and each piece of information is accompanied with a source. Of all the sources I clicked they all worked and led to another place to find information on the topic. I believe that they are reliable and reflect their information well into the article. The books range from the 1800's to present. The sources that lead to the further reading are informative and could give additional details to the article if the reader had not found what they were looking for.

I believe that the article was well written and I get a very good amount of information from it. There are no mechanical errors that I found throughout this piece. I like the way the article is broken up the sections are relevant, I particularly liked the section on entomology because it is extremely important to know where the word and its meaning come from.

I would have liked a few more pictures and diagrams and I think that is something I will change along with the wrong date that I have found. The images that are present are well-captioned. One of the links I clicked on went to a Wikipedia page that said it had multiple issues. Besides that everything appeared to be good.

There are no images on the page Spirit

I would say the article is underdeveloped. The article could be improved by adding some more information. Also some pictures could definitely be added to capture the readers attention.