User:Dankuba19/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Cold War - Wikipedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article as a test in completeness in organization of a vast topic, the cold war itself. With a behemoth of list of topics that are umbrellaed under the cold war, it was a good test article for this check list

Evaluate the article
The article has a strong lead section with some minor concerns for length with respect to this section. However, it is a very length article so the lead section does compliment with the length of the article. The information is organized clearly and concisely such that I was able to read the first paragraph and gain a very broad stroke of what the cold war was including some of the key topics like what is the definition of a cold war and what it entails as well as other supplementary items.

Content seemed to have hit all the major and even minor topics of the cold war. Ranging from importance such as the Postdam conference to minor discussions such as the Cominform and the Titio-Stalin split. Which were also complimented with larger and short lengths with respect to importance, respectively. With that being said, I cannot find any areas of missing content so overall a well-writen article from a content perspective.

Tone and balance was very balanced. The article was a factual and educational discussion about the cold war and it's major and minor topics. I found no areas of political bias or persuasion techniques. One cannot involve view points with this kind of article.

Sources and references were well documented. The sources are as current as they need to be, since it is historical older documentation was utilized. There were no sources with respect to news or random sites, so overall a strong sources and references.

Organization as mentioned previously is superior. Given that this a historical even with numerous historical sub-events a sub-sequential methodology was utilized for this article. Several main headings for most important topics with subheadings and minor discussions with respect to detail for flow sake. Grammar was not and issue and sentence structure was nearly flawless.

The images and media threaded through out the article guide the readers well for support and visualization purposes. All the images do adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations as well.

The article has significant ranking with being named a level 3 vital article for history and is part of several wikiprojects. Most of the conversations with this pertained to some editors issue with having a section on WWII, but given how history is connected this was needed for the sake of chronological unfolding.

Overall, I found this article to be strong in that it has strong organization, clarity in discussions, and threads visuals well. Some strengths with this article is the expanse of topics that are umbrellaed under the cold war and that it gives a nice discussion of said topics. Some weaknesses are that it has a tendency to ramble in some sections and the lead section is massive. Although, I can see this as a strategy for summarizing each section that is discussed further in the article.