User:Anavasquez32502/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Porfirio Díaz Ana, Given what you've written it seems that you will want to choose another figure for your final project. You may want to tackle something else related to the Diaz regime or the revolution that is under-developed.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
His presidency was a major cause of the Mexican Revolution. It's a topic we've touched on in the first week of class.

Evaluate the article
This article is very well-developed and clear. It's lead section is an informative overview of Diaz's importance to Mexican history and why he is a figure we remember today. There are many equally developed and informative sections. Each one reveals more about Diaz and his life as well as his larger effects on Mexico and it's history, balancing these two main things. I cannot find an instance where it loses a neutral point of view or swings toward any kind of bias perspective. Similarly, I find no issue with the citations either. They are plentiful. Though some are older than others, the balance of new and old sources keeps it from being dated. I was hard-pressed to find a source from after 2009, however, so perhaps the article could use someone going through much newer sources, if they exist, adding any new information or alterations based on new information. The links work as well. As someone who only recently and vaguely learned about Diaz, I would say it's well-written. The language is readable for me and I didn't find myself questioning what something or someone was as their was always a link or some included information that revealed to me what I didn't know. The images included, mostly of the people discussed in the article, seem necessary and helped give me a sense of what these people actually looked like. The few others were equally as necessary for me as a reader and I appreciated the inclusion of things like the image of the oil painting depicting the Third Battle of Puebla. When looking at the history of the article it's clear many people and much time has gone into creating the article. The talk page is similarly dense, full of people prodding for more information on certain things and offering their knowledge for improvement which has cultivated the well-developed article. Overall, it is a great article. I was able to learn a lot simply and to me it seems to be a complete overview of Diaz's life and impact on Mexico.