User:BRH266/Evaluate an Article

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Talk:Ballet

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate
I chose this article because I grew up as a dancer so I know about the topic and I wanted to see how much of what was written was true. I was also hoping to learn a little more about the thing that I did for 10 years. This article is important to be correct as ballet is something that is all ways getting new people to participate and with that people are always looking in to the topic.

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Does this Article have a lead section? No this article does not have a lead section. There is no introduction to what I am reading it just goes Immediately into the problems of articles that where written about Ballet. This article covers many topics about ballet but by just reading the first sentences you have know idea as to what your getting yourself into.

Is the content of the article relevant to the topic? Yes the information that is provided in this article is over all relevant to the topic. As this article is also a conversation about ballet it does stray a little as it does get personal and that is not necessarily helpful to the article. The last time that this article was updated was September 11 2022 so in terms of new material l the article is up to date but wither the material has been edited since it was published that is un know as some of the content is from 2011. There is also a lot of information missing as ballet is a pretty big topic. One pice of information that I was surprised not to find was the definition of ballet. This article could have addressed the equity's that are in ballet but it does not.

This article is not neutral as a lot of people have put their own thoughts in to the article. There was a whole conversation on the teaching of ballet and technic that was bias. I feel as though neither side was well presented. It was heavily negative and the writer would not see other peoples points. I feel as thought the article was trying to give ballet a bad rap and did not just present facts.

In this article there are very few sources listed but the sources that are used are good sources and have quality information. There are a few sources that have not been updated in 2022 but updated in 2021. These sources are written by different people but they are from similar backgrounds. There are definitely more sources out there that could have been added to this article to make it stronger and backup more points that the author was trying to address.

The article is well organized but it is not well written. Some of the pointes that the author was trying to make do not come off clear and over all confuse the reader on what they are trying to say. There are quite a few grammar mistakes as well the lack of punctuation

This article has no images.

Other people who have commented on this article call the author out for not using other sources and for having a strong bias with no supporting evidence. This article is part of the Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. We have not talked about this topic in class but this article does show us why it is so important to have a good claim and argument because if we don't them we will end up giving our clients a bad reputation like this article did for all the article on Wiki that are about ballet.

Over all I think this article was poorly written. The article had some good talking points but showed too much bias to be able to use it as a credible source. The article can be improved by removing bias and adding more souses to add credibility. I would also like to see more definitions brought in as it seem as if the author does not know the full extent of their topic. I believe that the article is under developed. This the title of Ballet I was expecting definitions and a discussion of different dances but this article does not have either of these.