User:Aspasia b/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Gothic plate armour

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
My initial delve into the article was the result of preexisting interest in the area of medieval arms and armor. I believe that is important to keep Wikipedia's pages on different types of medieval weapons and armor accurate and up to date due to the difficulty of finding easily accessible information of historical medieval armor and weaponry through other internet sites. Due to the influx of fantasy depictions of medieval armor with the increasing popularity of fantasy Tabletop role-playing game s such as Dungeons & Dragons and video games such as Baldur's Gate 3 in recent years, much of the easily accessible information on medieval weaponry and armor has been warped by fantasy interpretations (for example, D&D using "studded leather" as a popular armor type, which is not a type of armor that was used historically).

Evaluate the article
The article of gothic plate armor in specific has glaring issues with citations and sources. Although the article has a long list of sources, the newest among them is from 1985, and only a single source has an attributed reference in the article.

Furthermore, the article does not describe the differences between gothic plate armor and other types of plate armor from the same time beyond the location it was produced. It also doesn't mentioned the historical factors that led to the emergence of gothic plate armor or the reasons for its decline. It also mentions a transitional Schott-Sonnenberg style of armor, but does not mention what differentiated that style from previous styles.