User:Dcirum/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Mount Kenya

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I enjoy knowing in-depth details about different things, and learning about this mountain matters to me because it is located in my birth country therefore it was interesting reading about things I myself didn't know before.

Evaluate the article
Content:

The article is well written and very informative and it gives you more than just a general description which is important. One thing that I found out of date was when they referenced a fence that was expected to be put up in the park in 2014 but that has not been changed to whether in fact it was put up or not. An edit that I would suggest is changing out the layout of information. For instance after the brief introduction of the mountain, I would talk about its peaks, rivers and glaciers first before introducing the people around the mountain. I think it would be better flowing if you focused on the physical attributes of it first since it is a physical feature before going into the culture around it and its history. Some content also lacks citing while other in-text citations need updating as they state so in parenthesis.

Tone:

The article tone's was neutral however while talking about the culture of the people living around the mountain I feel like we got a lot of information about Kikuyus but very little detail about the other tribes. It may be possible that there was not enough information to cite to back claims for the other tribes or that the Kikuyu are the main tribe around the mountain but that has not been made evident by the article.

Sources:

All the links I clicked on worked and they did in fact lead to sources that supported information found on the articles. Not all facts are referenced but as stated in my previous paragraph, there is information in brackets stating this. The citations I looked at were from journals and news outlets from pretty diverse sources and they all used neutral tones.

Talk:

Some of the conversations going on in the talk page include people pointing out where there is a lack of reference, or parts that need more comprehensive information or even why certain changes have been made since they take away to the article. The article is rated a level-4 rated article and it is part of five WikiProjects. I learnt about Mount Kenya in Geography in high school and unlike my class then, Wikipedia gives you all the ins and outs. It was fun learning more beyond the physical attributes of the mountain and getting to look at talk pages where other people are having conversations that contribute to the topic.