User:Catran1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) Joseph Greenberg

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I am interested in Liberal Arts and in the subcategories was Anthropology. In that section, it opened into anthropologists, so I found Joseph Greenburg interesting because in the quick overview he specialized in genetic classification of languages.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

While reading the Wikipedia article about Joseph Greenburg, I noticed quickly how straightforward and concise it was about him, which was what had me drawn towards him. The next part was about his life, and even though it was short it talked about his his birthdate and place to high school to college to his career life to his marriage. Looking at the citations, I saw the earliest article was from 1987 and the latest article was from 2022, which is fairly recent. I clicked on the link and the actual website article on Joseph Greenberg was February 2023, so the article was updated and felt true to its tone, which was educational about him and his career in linguistics. The article was overall balanced because it not only talked about his take and education on linguistics of different cultures, but also who and how others disagreed with him on his opinions. Having contrasting lectures on the lecturer made the article more neutral toned, and less bias for Greenberg. Since there were many articles linked to this article, I clicked on some to make sure they were genuine and academic. Many of the articles were from Joseph Greenberg himself, which is a reliable source for our main source. Addition to his own works were articles about linguistics as well. However, there were some sentences that felt needed more backing up and clarification because it had no citation. Because this article was so easy to read and understand, I can say it was well organized and concise throughout, while covering many topics about his career and studies in linguistics. With pictures of him and of the context involved, the article's visual aspect helped me understand him more with quick captions and descriptions of topics I did not know of. The overall article felt true to its tone and was not trying to win any argument but was simply educating its reader on who Joseph Greenberg was and was known for. Although there were some moments of questioning whether or not the source was real or not, it still felt educational and real to his persona.