User:Discreetalmonds/Evaluate an Article

User:Discreetalmonds/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Jewish ethics

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 have chosen this article because it relates to our class in the sense that Jewish Ethics are the foundations of different understandings of what Zionism is, and how it should be performed. My preliminary impression of the article is that it is an article which focuses mostly on biblical texts as evidence of ethics, but also covers the entire history (up until modern times) of how these may have changed.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is brief and descriptive, and answers the general question of what Jewish ethics is, or means as a term. The lead however, does not include an overview of the topics to be covered, which would be helpful to a reader. Besides this however, the lead of the article does what it needs to do for readers, mostly priming them for the article to come. The article's content is relevant to the topic, although the article could start with the specific Jewish ethics, rather than the biblical text origins/background of them. While this information is important, it goes deeper into the topic, and if a reader only wanted to know the ethics of Judaism, it would be nice to find them towards the top of the page. The article is completely neutral and factual, providing the ethics of Judaism and their descriptions with no bias. However, this seems especially hard regarding ethics, as there is inherent "good" and "bad" in these topics, yet the writer did a good job at remaining neutral. The article has an extensive references section which is made up of books, articles, primary sources, webpages, and more. More images embedded within the article would help to maintain reader focus and illustrate some of the listed ethics, as well as breaking up the large block of the text to make it more visually digestible. From the talk page, I noticed that the last comments are from 2010, and some even go back to 2006, so the article could stand to be updated with more current information if it exists. Besides the talking points being outdated, they seem to address a wide variety of edit suggestions. Overall, the article is helpful an informative. It could become even more so through reorganization of the paragraphs and current updated information to best help readers answer any questions they may have about Jewish ethics.