User:Audlz/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Political history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it was listed as a level-5 vital article in History, which means it as been rated to need a lot of improvement.

Evaluate the article
Lead Content

- Very concise but does not overview its subsections, especially the different country subgroups of political history

- Overviews historical change of political history but does not mention modern context

Content

- I've also noticed that the scope is quite limited, so this page could be benefited by adding additional countries' definitions of political history as it appears to be limiting in perspective with the few that are listed

- only includes subgroups for US, Britain, Germany, France- solely european/western countries which is limited in diversity considering political history is a vast topic that encompasses countries of the east as well

Tone and Balance

- article is not very balanced. Western ideas are overrepresented whilst eastern ideas are nonexistent in this article

Sources and References

- skewed sources. though one of the introduction sentences mention that political history examines the history of politics and government on a global scale, 90% of the sources are in relation to US history, and the remaining 10% are about british history or western history

-The sources for the US are creditable and from JSTOR

- only from 20th century

Talk Page

- listed as a level-5 vital article in History, which means it as been rated to need a lot of improvement.

- quite a few discussion on how this article is too short and vague to encompass the vast topic

Overall

- needs significant improvment for inclusivity of other nations' (beyond just western countries) of political history

- information is all primarily of 20th century and after, and we are missing overview of previous political history/scope is limited

- No images are present

- writing is overall mildly disorganized, however the separation of subgroups under different countries makes it easier to dissect, and is effective, though it needs to be more inclusive