User:Bopowers14/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Social science

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it describes the history and methods of social science, a topic which i am interested in. It goes over many different branches of social sciences and how they came to be and what they do in society. It is also a lengthy article, so there is room for a lot of of info and sources.

Evaluate the article
- This article has a good lead into the topic, that is detailed and precise. There are no opinion in the lead and gets to the point of which the article was written. The topic is social science, which is a broad topic, so the intro basically defines what social science is and what it can be used for.

- The content of this article fulfills the intended purpose of the article. Since this is a history of a subject article, some of the info is older, but it describes what the social science is. It has many different contents, such as history, education, economics, anthropology, and more with a detailed portion of background information on each of the subjects it covers. There is also a methodology section which dives in to how social science is researched, with a list of more topics to go from here.

- The tone is very neutral here. It is a history of social science article, so it is not opinionated at all. It only gives facts and background information over the subjects that it covers.

- There are a lot of sources that are old and new for this article. It makes the article seem very reliable. The sources range from the 19th century to 2020, and they all work to bring up the right page that it discusses.

- The talk page has some critiques, mostly asking for more subjects to be placed in this article, because social science is such a broad topic, but that is mostly what is being discusses in the talk section.

- Overall, this article does what it is intended to do, give a back ground history of the subject and describe the different categories of social science. I believe that this article is credible and has the appropriate sources to make this a reliable article.

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