User:Banana.oceans/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Survey (archaeology)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as it pertains to the collection of archeological data and aids in the foundation of developing research and excavations.

Evaluate the article
The lead of this article is concise and informative, only touching on content covered in the rest of the article and introducing/ explaining potentially unfamiliar terms such as intrusive vs non-intrusive and extensive vs intensive. The article's content is relevant to the topic and highlights why archeological surveys are important as well as their practical applications. Furthermore, this article is very balanced and neutral, with a focus on informing rather than persuading. It looks like the references are from reputable sources, with the majority dating from the 70s to the early 2000s. Given the subject of this article, this may not be an issue if the practices/ tools have not changed a great deal since the publishing of said references. Unfortunately, at least three of the links were not working for me, which is an issue that should be addressed. There is one image, which is from Flickr originally and has been approved by Wikipedia. I would consider adding another picture to break up the large chunks of full line text but this is certainly not a major issue. It looks like most of the recent dealings are with minor edits including cosmetics, a couple added web links, and sentence changes. The talk page is short, with only a general assessment of the article quality and the discussion of possibly renaming a section. This is surprising to me given the extent of this article and it's importance. This article is currently rated as start class and is part of the Archeology WikiProject. Overall, I think this article is fairly solid given the information written, however, I do think it could add parts related to emerging technologies and incorporate more current sources. Lastly, there need to be updated links to a few of the sources since some are not accessible anymore.