User:Bthsctt22/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
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 * Name of article: Aromatic hydrocarbon
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. Because it is in the Chemistry field. I felt more comfortable evaluating it as a Chemistry student.

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic? Yes
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections? It has a Contents box which I would assume counts. This really just lists the titles of the major sections in the article.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? Yes, it talks about heteroarenes which are not discussed anywhere else in the article.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed? Very concise.

Content

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 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Yes
 * Is the content up-to-date? It appears to be consistent with what is currently being taught in Organic Chemistry classes in college so I would say it is. Some of the references were a bit outdated but I do not think much has changed in the Organic field in this particular area.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong? Not that I could tell.

Tone and Balance

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 * Is the article neutral? It seems to just be from a neutral scientific perspective.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented? No, just facts about the chemistry behind aromatic hydrocarbons.
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another There are no positions.

Sources and References

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 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Most of them are. Some of the knowledge seemed too extensive for the author to have known it off the top of their head and some of this was not cited so a few additional sources might be necessary.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? They seem to be, there are a lot of sources. Some or more recent and others more dated. They seem to be from a variety of different resources or types of media (print, journal, website, online encyclopedia etc.)
 * Are the sources current? Some are.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Yes, a few were odd sources however and one did not link directly to the article listed but to a main website where it could conceivably be found if you felt like searching for it.

Organization

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 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? Yes, it is also written in a style more easily understandable to a standard layperson who is not a scientist (to some degree).
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? Nothing that stood out to me.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? It had relevant categories and sub-categories that covered a lot of important things about aromatic hydrocarbons.

Images and Media

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 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic It has a few but for a subject in the organic chemistry field I think more images would definitely be helpful.
 * Are images well-captioned? For the few there were, yes.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Unsure. They list where they were obtained from and I would assume the author did not use strictly copyrighted images but it would be worth double checking.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? Could be improved.

Checking the talk page

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 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic? There was a lot of talk about pyrrole and if it was in fact aromatic (very long discussion about this actually). There were suggestions for improvements and one large piece of text had been removed by an editor because it did not quite fit with the article.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? Yes, it is. It is a C class of High importance.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class? I think in class we learn about a lot of things listed in this article but we learn them at different times, while covering different things and then we piece it all together when we begin talking more about benzene rings, aromaticity

Overall impressions

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 * What is the article's overall status? It has some definite things that could be improved and worked on.
 * What are the article's strengths? It is clear and concise about something that is a complex subject to many.
 * How can the article be improved? I would suggest some much more recent sources being used for some of it.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed? I think there is room for further development. I am not sure if it is shorter for the sake of conciseness but there can definitely be expansion on the topic.

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