User:Ashark22/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Louis Sullivan

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article on Louis Sullivan because I feel that I have some knowledge on him, which gives me the background to Gove an evaluation. It is also a complete, solid article with many sources.

Evaluate the article
The lead section includes a strong introductory sentence and sets up the articles main points. The paragraph is slightly over detailed for an introduction. The article contain relevant important information about the designer and the time in which he was working. The article does however give little attention to historically underrepresented populations and topics. The article keeps a neutral stance. It discusses his contradictory legacy from a non bias point of view.

sources

The bibliography includes an extensive and diverse list of journals, architectural historians, and academic essays. Few of these sources are from within the past ten years. I Think it would be helpful if the article was updated with some more recent sources. There is only one female author listed out of all of these sources. The sources could be more diverse. The links do work but the list should be updated for diversity.

Organization and Writing Quality

overall the article is well written and easy to follow. There were no clear grammatical or spelling errors. The article was also well organized and broken down into different section which were all relevant. There were many images included to help exemplify the work and aspects of the work that are being discussed. The images are mostly clumped together at the bottom. It may be more effective if they are spread out along side the topic which they exemplify.

In the talk there were many questions and discussions about photos in the article. This article is in four wikiprojects and has a B class rating. This article gives more detail on Louis Sullivan as a person rather than simply looking at his work. His early life previous to his career and his downfall as an architect is something we didn't discuss in class.

Overall this article is well developed and seems to accomplish it's goal. It gives a relatively short look at Louis Sullivan as a person and architect.