User:Danauca/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Black tea.

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
Black Tea, is a super common thing that is used in everyday life. I've also worked in a tea shop and learned the traditional practices and ways that black tea is made and wanted to see whether or not these are brought up.

Evaluate the article
The lead: the lead section of this article is very straight forward and doesn't leave much margin for error. It gets to the point while giving the amount of information needed however it does not go over all the sections that are shown in the rest of the article. It is concise but the blends of tea and the manufacturing, tea grading and brewing were all left out of the lead.

Content: The content in this article is very helpful when looking for types of teas but require going to a separate wiki page to get the full scope of what the teas are like, their flavoring, etc. Since this is the main page for black tea I'd like to see more done to show the teas individually identified so that people reading the article do not need to then go to 20+ different articles to find the tea they are looking for in the article. The content seems up to date as tea doesn't change as often as most things and has references from 2021. The biggest thing that I think is missing from this is that there is nothing that talks about the labor practices surrounding the tea industry while also being the most consumed tea in the world.

Tone: This article is very neutral. It reads like a textbook. That being said there is an underrepresentation of how the tea is actually harvested which could speak on the tone of the writers as a lot of labor laws have been gone against in the tea industry.

Sources: For what the article is the sources in the article seem very reasonable. The links work in the article. There does not seem to be a huge diversity of voices but as previously stated it reads like a textbook and so do the articles only talking about the making of tea after harvesting and not the harvesting itself. The sources range from early 2000 to 2021.

Organized: It is almost too organized. Since all that is written about is in tables and in lists, very little is out of place however that is because it lacks key elements of what should be in the article.

Images: The article has some images but more is never a bad thing The images have descriptions but they are not that fleshed out. There are also lots of videos on the internet of people making tea which would also be a great addition to the article. The images seem to follow Wikipedia's copyright regulations. They are not very visually appealing.

Talk: The biggest talk is about caffeine quality and they seemed to have changed the format of the tables rot be alphabetical. It is apart of wikiprojects china and wikiprojects food and drink.Its been rated B-class.

Overall: The information that is there seems very good but it seems to be missing something of substance about the practices and harvesting of black tea. With more work on a mostly well done article I think it could reach A-Class.