User:Blainetrain13/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
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 * Ancient Egyptian conception of the soul
 * I randomized an article then went through categories to try to find a topic within the realm of anthropology and eventually ended up on this one. Seems like an interesting article that had a lot of info so it would be a good one to evaluate.

Lead

 * Lead evaluation

The lead is very concise and clear, but very short. It did not give a very brief description of the contents of the article, however, it did define what the article was about overall. There was no information that wasn't included in the article and it was overly detailed, it lacked detail.

Content evaluation
All of the information was relevant to the topic and was well laid out separated into categories of the different parts of the Egyptian "soul". Most of the sources are from the 2000s and considering this information does seem very likely to have changed I would confidently say this is up to date. It does not say anything about underrepresentation, I would love to know how much of the interpretation was done by Egyptian scholars, so that may be a place for edits.

Tone and balance evaluation
The article was strictly factual and neutral, when there was no definitive interpretation generally at least two likely or disputed theories were mentioned.

Sources and references evaluation
Most of the sources on here are from well respected universities, mostly centered out of the U.S. and England, and the rest are from journals or encyclopedias on Egyptian history or religion. I think they are pretty reflective of what is known about the subject but would like to see some Egyptian sources.

Organization evaluation
The article is well written and structured very nicely as it covers various aspects of the Egyptian soul in different parts to easily move from one part to the next. The article was free of any noticeable grammatical errors from my readings through it.

Images and media evaluation
Images often are old pieces of art (mosaics, paintings, sculptures) depicting the concept being talked about or it shows hieroglyphs of the words being discussed. They were spaced out nicely and each had a concise and informative caption linking each image to a separate article for further research or background on the image.

Talk page evaluation
This project is part of the WikiProject Mythology and the talk section had a lot of edits and discourse about certain authors and their authority on the subjects they were discussing. After viewing the talk tab I saw that there were several topics or subheadings that had been removed from this article as they did not appear to be relevant to the scope of this topic.

Overall impressions

 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
This article was a very concise and informative. It was also well organized and would be easy to jump around to specific information if needed. This article could have a better lead, one that would highlight the different parts of the soul because that is the main structure of the article but is missing from the lead.