User:Avmcloney/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Category:Art history)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article from the links provided because I am interested in the topic and it not a controversial subject. I believe it is a subject which interests many people, and that students especially will directly engage with. My initial impression of the article is that it is brief and clear and provides many subcategories for a reader to further explore.

Evaluate the article
I found the lead section of the article concise. The topic, Art History, is very broad, so the lead section just gave a general definition of the topic, which also specifies the category as an academic discipline. There were many subcategories provided after the lead section, in order to provide ample avenues for the searcher to explore. Each sentence of the lead section offered more insight into what the topic was.

The content of this article was broad, and provided ways of expanding the definition and understanding the subject. I think it was important to include that art history is not merely concerned with western art, but has a large scope across time and geography. It is also useful to have so many subcategories provided in order to balance the information that might be provided.

As far as tone and balance go, the article had a very neutral tone, not providing any biased information.

As I looked through the sources and references, the links I tried all worked. I clicked through the subcategories and there was a good amount of representation of various different groups (art of Europe, Buddhist art, etc.), as well as many different avenues to search subcategories, such as Art by the century or culture.

The article was easy to read and had no errors.

There was so visual media provided, which I think was appropriate because the search category is so broad, any specific images would  not apply to the category as a whole.

When looking at the Talk section, there was only one comment, which was that there was not enough information in this article to edit. I disagree because the article provides so many subcategories for a person to explore and search through.

Overall, by looking though the subcategories, I was impressed by the range of information provided on the topic, and mostly by how it was all organized. There were subcategories on different forms of art history as well as extremely comprehensive articles about specific places and times in art history. My impression is that the article I looked at is a great jumping off point for anyone looking to discover more about subcategories of the topic.