User:Daviswetter/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Wagner tuba

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It has some relevance to me as a french horn player and caught my eye most out of the ones on the list

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:

- The first sentence gives a good summary of the subject of the article

- It does not include a summary of all of the major sections of the article

- The only information not found in the article is the list of translations/alternate names of the instrument

- The lead is concise

Content:

- The article's content is relevant to the topic and up to date

- There is not any content that is missing or doesn't belong

- It does not discuss any underrepresented groups or populations like women, people of color, etc.

Tone and Balance:

- It is neutral

- There are no claims that are heavily biased toward any position

- Fringe or minority viewpoints are not really discussed in the article

- The article does not try and persuade me to one side or another, as it is just a discussion of history

Sources and References:

- The sources are somewhat recent, but not completely current (references date from 1990 to 2014). All the sources seem accurate and the links work. However, there does not seem to be much diversity in the authors of all of the reference sources which is not unexpected given the context of what the article is about.

Organization and writing:

- The article is well written, easy to read, and broken down into digestible chunks with no spelling or grammatical errors

Images and Media:

- The article only contains one image of a Wagner tuba, which is relevant, well captioned, and laid out in an appealing manner but the article could use some more visual imagery

Talk Page:

- There are discussions about nomenclature, inventors, the article itself, and more on the talk page. I could not find a "rating", and this course is the only project the article is apart of.

Overall impressions:

- This is overall a good and informative article about the Wagner tuba. All the information it does have is of good quality, however the length is one of its major flaws. Additionally, it could use some more current sources and some more information about other aspects of the instrument