User:Brandonkrause466/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Media ecology

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this specific article because of how it relates to our course material fairly closely. I also liked the article for it's brief, yet thorough explanation of "media ecology" and its history.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section - The lead section in the "media ecology" article is straight to the point, but also provides essential details for anyone who might just read the first sentence to those who continue to read the first paragraph or more. All information appears to be relevant to the rest of the information, so the article does a fine job of remaining on topic.

Content - Again, the article does a great job of staying on topic and never veers off track at any point. The page also is up to date, using resources and research from as recently as four years ago.

Tone and Balance - Throughout the entirety of the article, it remained neutral on the topic of media ecology, never overstating a particular point of view, nor ever becoming overly biased at any point.

Sources and References - The article itself, as well as its resources list at the bottom are both filled with reliable and credible sources. Many of the sources date back a few years, even a couple decades, but there are some sources that are as recent as within the last five years or so. With the wide range of years separating them, the sources are also diverse in terms of who wrote them. They also all (all the ones I checked) contain working links to their original sources.

Organization and Writing Quality - There was never a time throughout the article that I felt lost or like I had missed a section somewhere. It was well written with clear, concise language in order for me to follow along while also learning about media ecology.

Images and Media - There was a lack of images an media within the article, except to illustrate the people who were referenced within the article. I didn't find this to be an issue, however, because how else exactly would do you illustrate the topic of media ecology?

Talk Page Discussions - The main topics of conversation on the talk page are criticizing minor details of the article, such as the references numbering system, so I would hardly say that those criticisms deem this article less credible because of it.

Overall Impressions - Overall, this is a good article to get an understanding of what "media ecology" is and what it means, as well as a very in depth overview of the history of it. One of its strengths would be the quick, clear and concise way that it describes media ecology, giving new readers an easy way of understanding it. One downside I would say is that it includes far too much information into the history of it. While this may be helpful to select few, I find that going to such great lengths to cover EVERYTHING that has ever happened in regards to media ecology is a bit much, so that could use some weeding through. In all, though, I would say it's a complete article.