User:Artever/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Key example of an early Roman portrait, and one of the very few bronze ones to survive. It's a good initial summary, although perhaps some more connections to Roman history and art history could be made.

Evaluate the article
Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? Everything is relevant to the article.

Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added? The antiquarian section is good, although if there's an example of the first drawings of the bust out there that are copyright-free they would be wonderful to have. The difference between Lucius Junius Brutus and Marcus Junius Brutus could maybe be explained a bit further. In some pictures the bust is missing an eye, and if there's any research on the history of restorations, that would be useful information to add, too.

The section on modern interpretations is a bit compressed, especially the final sentence, which rests a bit heavily on direct quotation.

Can you identify any notable equity gaps? Does the article underrepresent or misrepresent historically marginalized populations? The sources cited seem to have a reasonable balance of male and female writers. The cited sources could probably be drawn from a more diverse array of scholars and publications, however.

What else could be improved? Devoting a little more space to the modern interpretations of the bust, and, in particular their significance. What do scholars see the bust as evidence of in the 3rd century, or if they think it's antiquarian, why was it made?

Side views of the bust would also be great to have.

Artever (talk) 19:16, 8 September 2022 (UTC)