User:Brianhbruce98/Evaluate an Article

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 * Easby Cross
 * I found this article because it was listed with other C-class articles and I wanted to evaluate something that could use some refining.

Lead

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 * The Lead concisely states what the article is about, what it is, when it was made, and where it is now.
 * The Lead does not include brief reference to the major sections of the article. In fact there appear to be no major sections of the article, as it is organized into large paragraphs.
 * The Lead includes some visual description but then later the article returns to discuss the visual description of the object in further detail.
 * The Lead does have some good information, but could be more direct.

Content

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 * The information is relevant to the topic, but it is organized in a way that makes it difficult to follow.
 * Sources are cited as early as 1932 and as recent as 2012. The article appears to be up to date.
 * There is information regarding the placement of the object in the museum, which is most likely subject to change.

Tone and Balance

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 * The article maintains a neutral tone.
 * I do not believe there to be any particularly biased information and if there is it would require further knowledge on the material than I currently possess.
 * So much of the information cited is specifically from the museum where it is housed. There is specifically one art historian's perspective singled out in the article, Ernst Kitzinger.
 * I do not believe the article is attempting to persuade the reader with this article.

Sources and References

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 * There are several citations per paragraph, but as stated before most of the citations come from the museum itself.
 * There does not appear to be a great diversity of sources here.
 * The sources are current.
 * The several links I checked were working, but they again were mostly linking to information directly from the museum.

Organization

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 * I do not find the article to have great organization; the ideas are grouped into sections seemingly randomly.
 * There are no blatant grammatical errors aside from the awkward phrasing in the final sentence which offers directions on how to find the object in the museum.
 * The article is adequately written. The ideas come across well when you understand what you are reading, but it is not organized efficiently.

Images and Media

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 * The article utilizes adequate images of the object.
 * The captions are adequate, if a bit too concise.
 * The images could be questionable by copyright standards. They are probably photos taken by the previous authors of the article but they are obviously taken in the museum.
 * The images are organized along the side at the top of the article. There does not seem to be a lot of thought about placement of images, but even if there were the organization of the article inhibits helpful placement..

Checking the talk page

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 * No conversations have taken place on the talk page aside from several quality ratings.
 * The article is rated as C-class and is a part of three WikiProjects: Visual arts, Anglo-Saxon England, and Yorkshire.
 * Since there are no discussions, I can't say how discussions on Wikipedia differ from in-class discussions but I can infer a bit from the low-importance ratings and the history of the article's facts being utilized on the main page of Wikipedia that this might not be the most exciting place for discussion on Wikipedia.

Overall impressions

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 * The article's status is C-class, rated low importance by two of the three WikiProjects it is associated with.
 * Some strengths of the article are that the writing is concise and offers great details.
 * Some weaknesses of the article are that there appears to be no organization of ideas and that the majority of the information is taken from one source.
 * The article is a bit underdeveloped, but it probably wouldn't take too much more effort to see where the museum is sourcing information from to build upon the ideas here. There would also need to be some more thought put into the structure of the article.

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