User:Bigspace4/Evaluate an Article

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Pythagoras

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because Pythagoras lead an interesting life, and postulated many ideas still relevant today. Pathagoras' Theorum is taught in highschool because it matters.

Preliminarily, the lead goes into great detail. Perhaps it's necessary to outline as much as there is because there's lots to talk about. However, at first, it's a bit intimidating.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

Lead Section: The leads introductory sentence is to the point: describes who he was, the pronounciation of his name, and what he's most famous for. The major sections of the article are outlined, Life, Teachings, Pythagoreanism, etc. No information present in the article is absent from the lead.

Content: The material in the article is relevant to the topic, and concering questions. The last edits were made in January 2018, suggesting that its being kept up to date. According to the "Talk," references have been recently updated due to needed changes in citation formating.

Tone and Balance: While the article remains neutral, at times emphatic words such as "most" and "many" are used to delineate exactly how much influence Pythagoras has on the modern world. No claims appear to be heavily biased. Claims made are based on fact, and supported with up to date references, from other articles, stories, and archeological findings. No persuasion occurs in this article because no position is trying to be made, supported, or biased, to convert a reader to a certain stance on Pythagoras, and who he was.

Sources: Because Pythagoras lived so long ago, many sources are secondary, but happen to corroborate in support of the facts. Along with Modern Secondary Sources are Classical Sources. However, these are fewer. There are about 60 times more seconary sources are there as classical sources supporting the Wiki article on Pythagoras. In text citation redirect readers to mentions with addtional references on his life.

Organization and Writing Quality: The writing is clear and professional. It is consice, and appears to be absent of any grammatical errors. The chronological breakdown is smooth, and timely. It is easy to follow his life through the article, and skip to different sections.

Images and Media: The article is enhanced by images: depictions, maps, images of sculptures, and paintings. All the images are cited, adhering to Wikipedias guidelines, and help draw focus to important points.

Talk Page Discussion: The Talk page is light in personal discussion, and more recently heavy with formating citations. There is some banter between wiki-editors though. This article has been listed as a level-4 vital article in People, meaning it is a high quality article, great in length, and written about an important topic, with many sources.

Overall Impressions: The article is very strong: it oulines much of his life, teaching, postulates, discoveries, and influences.

This article is extrememly effective in linking mentioned people, works, accreditations, to other wikipedia pages, that are highly rated. Any improvement would have to be minor, because tremendous work has already been done. Perhaps with new discoveries, certain descriptions and facts about his life could be adjusted or improved in detail. Overall, the artilcle is well developed, and complete.