User:Chw53/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
The Wind in the Willows

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
The article was ranked "c-class" and my grandmother used to read me this book when I was younger. So, I was just generally interested in the improvement of this Wikipedia article.

Evaluate the article
Evaluating Wind in the Willows Wikipedia article

The Lead section looks and sounds pretty good. There is a clear opening topic sentence that summarizes the articles topic. It doesn't do a great job of mapping out what the article is going to look like and stating what sections are going to be included in the article. The lead section does include some specific details that aren't necessarily crucial to have in the lead section.

In terms of content, the article could use a lot more content in the background and reception page. The summary and the adaptations page are the correct length and included everything it needs to include.

The article only gives one real reception of the book. The reception is positive, but there is definitely more examples of reception that the article can give that are negative. So the article needs to work on being more neutral and containing more sources.

The organization and writing quality was fine. Nothing to be impressed about, but nothing to earn a grade higher than c-class.

It's surprising that with a book such as Wind in the Willows that there's not a single illustration from the book on the Wikipedia page. The book has amazing illustrations that could've been perfect to include throughout the article.

The article is c-class and the in the "talk page" people have made a few edits. However, all the edits were made over ten years ago.

This article was good, but there are many ways that it can be improved. The expansion of the background and reception page is needed. The summary doesn't need to be as long and detailed as it is. I also think the quality of writing could definitely use some work.