User:AnnaAstrup/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Economic history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article, because I think obtaining knowledge of how are economy functions can be extremely valuable. Economics is the foundation of how our country and the world operate around money. My initial thoughts were it seems as though the article might have a lot of good facts, but I was doubting the organization of the article.

Evaluate the article
I thought the lead section did a good job of introducing the article and setting up the following information. However, I think some of the words in the introduction were a little too educated for a wikipedia article. All of the content in the article is all relevant to the topic. The content appears to all be up to date, since the main theme is history the content doesn't necessarily go out of date. This article is dominated by white males, unfortunately there is not a whole lot that can be done do to the gender discrimination in our history. However, I am sure there are some female economic historians that could be included in this article. Also, I think as time passes this article can continue to be updated with new economic history which will hopefully hold better representation from females and minority groups. I think the flow could definitely be improved...I feel like the history of capitalism section especially is kinda just thrown in there. The tone seems very neutral, but again the female voice is clearly underrepresented. Sources appear to be accurately sourced and majorly unbiased. There is a wide variety of sources and it is not a very large article, so it is clear there are many different viewpoints included. There is a lot of detailed discussion on the talk page about the need for certain content on the page and the accuracy of a lot of different definitions. The article is a part of 5 wikiprojects: business, economics, history, middle ages and European history.