User:Ashleyethier/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Australian Shepherd

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I decided to evaluate this article, because I love dogs , therefore it is an article which I have some interest in.

Evaluate the article
For the lead section it was very straight to the point like it should be. The author did put some information that are in the body of the wikipedia article, like for example the facts that it is one of the most popular breed in the US. I did wish the author would have spoken more in the history about the the descendant of the dog an dhow it is a heading dog. But over all the author was really concise and it was not too detail in the introduction.

When we look at the content of the article ; all the content are relevant to the topic and is up to date. I did feel like there was some content missing in the Health section ; when the author listed some problem that they may have, I feel like it would have been good to list most of them and the symptoms to spot those problems. Also in the history topic I would have written more about the descendant of the breed and how it is a heading dog from the US.

When looking at the tone and balance i find the article neutral except sometimes I would see some sentences like for example " A purely working breed for over a century" I find that the way this part is written, we can see that the author have put in a way her personal opinion, which is not good when doing a wikipedia article , you need to stay absolutely neutral.

Organization and written quality was on point, I did not noticed some mistakes and the way the article was separate was really good , the subtitles were presents and spoke exactly about the title.

When we look at the image and media captioned well the Australian Shepard, except the first pic which I would have put a picture of the Australian Shepherd face but that we can see the body so we have a very good idea of what it is , but all the others picture were on point we can see some different characteristics of the breed and some activity that they do.

For the talking page I can see that the article is part of the Wikiproject Dog and Wikiproject US, in the talking page I noticed that people were commenting lots about the references if it was useful or not some things that was written and if the facts were back up. They were also helping the author with some research like for example in the origins where they spoke about the trainer who made this breed popular and plenty more. This article is part of both these projects because it is about a dog and the origin of the dog is from the US therefore it can be part of these two project

Overall I liked the article it was written although I did think that this article was underdeveloped, they were a lot of missing informations , but with more research , this article have a lot of potential.