User:Derinamira/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Stir frying

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 the article because i love chinese food especially the stir fry dishes and have always been interested in how the food is prepared and what special techniques help make the food have such nice taste and textures. The article also provides a good overview on the technique and how it came to be so prominent in the chinese cooking industry. Also I am a big foodie and am interested in many things food related because I am constantly trying to improve and expand my culinary skills while appreciating the various cultures that bring about the delicacies that I enjoy. I read up a lot on chinese cuisine (and other traditional cuisines) so I believe I know a good amount of information about the subject topic and can objectively read the article and evaluate.

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 is adequate, it provides brief but enough concise details to know the overview of the whole article
 * The content of the essay touches the important aspects of the subject and does not overemphasise certain aspects over others. The content gives relevant and objective information about all aspects of the topic.
 * The tone of the article was neutral through the whole article. All points were expressed by the author from an objective point of view, no bias towards any particular information or points. No part of the article was either under or overemphasised, just relevant points regarding all subject information.
 * At every necessary point of the article, reference or citation was given and all references cited seem reliable and from various different authours that approach the topic in their own unique way, the links cited work and most the references are reliable peer reviewed articles.
 * The article is well written and well structured, it is also written to professional standard.
 * Appealing, relevant and informative images were placed at specific point during article and they served as visual aids to the presented information. The images are visually appealing and so that encourages the reader to look at them and try to absorb the information presented with the pictures. The pictures do not violate copyright.
 * The talk page has some issues brought up by other users about the article, the author made improvements based on the issues raised in the talk page, it is part of a wikiproject, Wikiproject food and drink, it is rated b-class.
 * Overall, the article is well structured and informative, I believe it could be improved by contrasting with various other similar cooking methods, many different techniques when we are talking about different cuisines, many of which are eerily similar to the topic and so a clear distinction between them. Another important improvement that could improve the article is discussing stir-fry in other traditional cuisine settings, this article is written from the standpoint of chinese cuisine which is valid because the cooking technique is historically a chinese but the technique is now widely used across various parts of the world/cultures and so it will definitely be an improvement to discuss how the stir fry is used or has been incorporated into theses different cultures.