User:Colesharris/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Accounting

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article has a general view of what accounting is and its relevant considering this is an accounting class. Our final project will also be based on an accounting topic so it is good to assess an article that is similar.

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.)

Lead Section: The Lead Section's first sentence is a strong one where it describes and summarizes the articles topic. The main paragraph has detail to it but it is concise and goes more into detail of what was said in the first sentence.

Content: Accounting is an incredibly large topic. Considering that, this article does a great job of diving into different subsections that are related to the main topic. It discusses the history of accounting, plus all of the different types.

Tone and Balance: This article is written from a neutral point of view. The facts are listed with no attempt to persuade the audience one way or another.

Sources and References: All of the links work and the articles facts are backed up by other sources.

Organization and writing quality: The article has minimal to no grammatical errors. This article is written very well and provides plenty of detail related to the topic and subtopics. The article is organized well with subtopics.

Images and Media: The pictures are helpful and give a small insight/detail into the topics. They are captioned appropriately.

Talk Page Discussion: One conversation has happened in the past 5 years. An editor was worried about one specific fact being slightly unclear.

Overall Impressions: This article is well-developed. It paints as clear of a picture as it can regarding the general information about accounting. The strengths of this article include being very organized, plus having relevant detail for each subtopic.