User:Coolfijiwater/Evaluate an Article

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

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 chose this article because I hadn't heard of it before. Philology matters because it looks at literary texts (such as poems and novels) and tries to identify their original meaning through various means. These include etymology, textual and literary criticisms, and historical events. My preliminary thoughts on philology are that it's interesting and something that I am incredibly interested in as an English major.

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.)

The Lead Section of this article is straight forward and precise. It gives just enough overview of philology so someone would be able to have a basic understanding of what it is. It does, however, contain some information that doesn't seem to appear anywhere else in the article.

The tone and balance of this article is neutral. It doesn't lean to heavily on one point of view, isn't trying to persuade the reader, and points out contention within the field.

As for sources and references, everything seems to be in order. Most of the sources appear to be physical books, but the other sources do have links that work. Everything that needs a reference has one. Some of the references are a little old.

The article is written well overall, with the exception of the lead section. The lead section has too much information about classic philology that could have been its own section.

There is one picture in this article and that may be enough. The picture itself does deal with the article and is captioned well.

The article's talk page brings to light that this is a Class C article and has been deemed as a "level 5 vital article" with an ask to improve it.

Overall, this article has a good foundation. I would move the information about classic philology to its own section, this would also allow some expansion on this subject. Besides that, there's not much I would change.