User:Devinnatishyn/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.


 * Voice analysis: (Voice analysis)
 * The article is interesting and related to the class, yet lacks necessary citations and its therefore unverified

Lead

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article?
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?

Lead evaluation

 * Overall, the lead is too short and should have a better description of the major sections of the article. It's concise, yet it does not really have enough information on the topic. In addition, the lead contains information not present in the article, like the information about truthfulness of speech being determined using voice analysis. This is tagged as controversial, and is also not even cited.

Content

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?
 * Is the content up-to-date?
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?

Content evaluation
The content is up to date, and most of it seems relevant. However, the section on Voice Problems is only tangentially related to the topic. It would be best to merge the necessary information into another section, and to then add a link to an article that might better elaborate on the topic. Perhaps this section could be fixed to talk about these voice problems and how they are treated using voice analysis.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article neutral?
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?

Tone and balance evaluation
The article contains some neutrality issues, such as tagging certain things as controversial and including un-cited phrases like "the most important". Other than these wording issues, the article does not seemed to contain a heavy bias toward particular positions, nor is the article written in such a way that it seems to be trying to persuade a reader toward one position.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions


 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information?
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic?
 * Are the sources current?
 * Check a few links. Do they work?

Sources and references evaluation
The article's few sources are all current, working, relevant to the topic, and reliable. The article does, however, contain several pieces of information that lack a source to back up the claims, and entire sections like the Lead and "Typical voice problems" lack citation entirely. To fix this article, an author should find information relating to the topic to provide citations, or otherwise these sections should be scrapped.

Organization

 * Guiding questions


 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read?
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors?
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic?

Organization evaluation
The article includes some technical terms and elaboration in sections that can make it difficult to read, but it is overall well-written and it would probably not be worth removing vital information for the sake of clarity. The first section of the article, "Typical voice problems" should probably be moved to after the "Analysis methods" section and then changed to talk about how voice analysis is used in medicine, rather than just explaining a tangentially related topic.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions


 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?
 * Are images well-captioned?
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations?
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way?

Images and media evaluation
There are no images or media on this page. If there are relevant and helpful images on this topic, then it would help to add them, however it does not seem that this would be vital for this topic.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions


 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

Talk page evaluation
The topic page has only one comment that contains no information about the editing history. The article is unrated, but it is part of WikiProject Mass Surveillance.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions


 * What is the article's overall status?
 * What are the article's strengths?
 * How can the article be improved?
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?

Overall evaluation
The article is okay, and it does provide a lot of helpful information on the topic. As it is sort of an understudied topic, it may be difficult to make this article much longer. The article needs minor corrections for tone and needs several sources added. The article as it stands is underdeveloped, but it is not far from reaching its potential.

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