User:Djoung/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Glass

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 this article because I've always had a passing curiosity on glass and it's unique physical properties. I've enjoyed learning about topics such as the Prince Rupert's drop and the use of glass as an art form. As a material used to create sculptures, tools, and buildings, it is omnipresent in our everyday lives and it is important that people know of it's physical properties and how to manipulate it. The article itself is fairly short for covering all of the physical properties of glass and it could use more information.

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.)

Overall the article seems to be lacking a lot of content on the physical properties of glass. The section titles "Other properties" is very generic and lacks any elaborations to their claims, despite using three sources for two sentences. To be honest it's not clear to me what the section is trying to accomplish. The "Corrosion resistance" and "Strength" sections give an adequate amount of information as well as linking to the main articles on those topics. However, the main article on the strength of glass does not elaborate much further on the topic and could use more information such as how the strength of glass is calculated. The "Density" section only gives one sentence on the density of glass and does not cover the whole range of types of glasses that I believe could be further expanded on. The "Optical" section of glass is well written with a concise overview as well as going into detail of the numerical optical properties of glass. It is organized well and has multiple and diverse sources. I believe it could use it's own main article going into how it's optical properties were derived, such as applying the formula for Abbe's number. Overall, the article could use more images to portray the properties so the reader can visually understand the topic. The one image included in the "Other properties" section is, I feel, not adequate in supplementing the readers understanding of the properties of glass. The article is C-class, indicating it could use some more work. I believe most of it is underdeveloped, with some sections being poorly developed.