User:DinoTron02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Museum of the Cherokee Indian

https://mci.org

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am a student in the undergraduate class “Museum Anthropology.” One assignment is to review an article relating to museums on Wikipedia and evaluate it. I saw this article in the “C-Class Museum Articles” category and I was interested in what it was about. Native American Folklore is one of my favorite things to read about so I wanted to know what coverage Native Americans were getting.

Evaluate the article
Lead section

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: The leading section is incredibly short. It contains barely any information regarding what the museum is about.

Recommendations: Increase the length of the leading section and add more details about the museum.

Content

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: The content is very lacking. Containing only two sections, and only one section contains any detail. There is not even a section for what the museum does or contains as artifacts or artwork. Some information contained in the “History” section does not even pertain to the history of the museum.

Recommendations: Add more sections to flesh out the article. Go into more details for the “Artist and People exhibited” section. Organize the “History” section better and move unrelated information into other sections where they can be explored more.

Tone and Balance

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: The article is not very balanced at all, focusing on too much of one section than the other.

Recommendations: Dial back the amount of detail given about the history and go into more detail about the other section.

Sources and References

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: While the amount and quality of the sources is quite large and many are published books, the amount of information in the article depicts that the sources are not being used to the fullest.

Recommendations: The quality of sources is good; it just needs to be used more.

Organization and Writing

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: The article lacks any real organization. There are parts of a section that should be in their own sections.

Recommendations: Split the “History” section into different sections and fill in the gaps. A section about what the museum currently does would be a big step in the right direction.

Images and Media

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: There are no helpful images in the article.

Recommendations: Add more images and an image gallery.

Talk page discussion

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: There is no discussions in the talk page, even though it is of interest to three other WikiProjects.

Recommendations: Add more to the article to bring up a discussion. Ask fellow members what the best things to add would be.

Overall impressions

Rating: Stub

Weaknesses: Missing basic information about the museum. Showcases almost nothing about what the museum does.

Recommendations: Needs a major look into revising.