User:Alternativenonfacist/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cultural anthropology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Though our core class is not an anthropology class in name, the nature of our class leads us to use many techniques similar to those that anthropologists would use. We also have read the works of several cultural anthropologists specifically, and discussed their work extensively.

Evaluate the article
The lead is well written, providing a concise but informative overview of the topic, as well as references to other related topics. The lead also provides a good summary of this specific field of anthropology while relating it to the broader topic.

The first section, entitled "History", has some issues. There is a warning that the section does not meet the quality standards set by Wikipedia, and as the warning states, the section is not so much a history as it is a general overview and defining of terms.

The next section, "Theoretical Foundations", includes many links to other pages, but fails to cite information for much of its content.

The "Methods" section is very well written, as is the "topics" section.

Overall, excluding the History section, this article meets standards. Most sections are well developed and contain good citations of quality sources.

There is an ongoing debate on the "Talk" page about whether or not a section on the overlap between sociology and cultural anthropology should be maintained, and it currently is not on the published article. Wikipedia also has a notice that this is a Level 5 "Vital Article" in the Society category, and is rated class C on the content scale.