User:Albkvz/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article has barely any information on it, and what is listed is on shaky ground. I'm interested in whether or not it is a lack of people working on it, or if the subject itself isn't truly notable enough to have had an article started in the first place. Also, by the name, it is not about a white person, which is always a good thing to expand upon and get into the world if possible.

Evaluate the article
The leading section is a singular sentence, providing that we know who the person is but not much more. It is concise, but certainly too concise. We know their name, time period, place of origin, and what they did, but that is it. It has no information about the few sections present, including works.

Similarly to the lead section, the content is severely lacking. There is only information about some of the works Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq had, and even that information is limited. We have no information about what kind of person they were, where they got their education from, any mentors they had, etc. Some of the sources for the works he contributed to are also uncertain and listed as unreliable. The article claims to have been updated in July 2022, but the only activity in the talk page is from 2010 between two people. Due to this, it is uncertain whether the lack of information is from a lack of contributors or a lack of sources.

Unfortunately, there is very little tone to read as well because the only information is presented in the works section. However, the information that is provided does seem to come from a neutral point of view. The description of who Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq is portrays no swaying of who the author thinks he is because there is so little information and the works that are described are listed very factually about their contents.

The first thing I notice with sources is that there are more sources listed than there are cited in the actual article. Only 4 of the sources are actually tied to information in any of the articles, but there are 9 sources listed in total. This lends to the idea that it is not a lack of sources keeping the article stunted, but a lack of contributors pulling information from these sources. Multiple of the sources have Yaʿqūb ibn Ṭāriq's name listed in the article citation itself, implying there could be a lot more information about this person missing from the Wikipedia article. Unfortunately, the variety of authors needs improvement. Out of the 9 sources listed, two of them are by Kennedy and two of them are by Pingree. That's almost half of the articles that are lacking diversity. The links that are provided do seem to functional.

There are no images or media.

This article needs someone to dedicate significant time to it. It needs multiple sections added, including information about the person, more information on the works, any images possible about their work, etc. It is possible that information on these are not as available, however there seems to be sources completely unpulled from so there may be many more.