User:AnjelicaRae/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Digital Classicist

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I have never heard about this community before and was curious as to what information I could learn because Google searches don't bring up much about it. My preliminary impression of the article was that it gives a broad overview of the community but some of the content seems imbalanced.

Evaluate the article
Lead section: The lead section includes an effective introductory sentence that describes the article’s topic, and it is not overly detailed as it simply states the aims of the project, when it was founded and where. However, it does not include a description of the major sections of the article.

Content: The content of the article itself is all relevant to the topic but was last edited in April of 2020, so I am assuming it might not be as up to date as it could be. Some sections are significantly shorter than others.

Tone and Balance: The article does maintain a neutral point of view and simply provides information without feeling persuasive. There are no claims that appear biased.

Sources and References: All of the facts, figures and events in the article are cited and link to various websites and other wikis, but some links are listed as permanently dead and there are also others that give error messages. This definitely questions the overall reliability of the article as a reader will have a harder time verifying information.

Organization and writing quality: The article is well-written (concise and clear) and does not have any glaring grammatical or spelling errors. It is also broken down into sections that do reflect the main points of the topic by explaining the activities undertaken by The Digital Classicist.

Images and Media: The article only includes one image, a poster from 2005. When you click on the image itself, it is not of high quality and the smaller text is a bit difficult to read. If possible, I think the article would benefit if this image was just the logo and included the written information in text.

Talk page discussion: The Talk page of this article is not very active; there have not been any new posts since 2007. Some of the posts center around how to write about The Digital Classicist as a collaboration project without the article coming off as an advertisement, and others are cautious about not duplicating the digital classics article. The article itself is part of three WikiProjects but is rated as Start-class on all of them.

Overall impressions: Overall, the article does have useful information but is incomplete. It would benefit from more balanced sections, up-to-date content and updated/working references.