User:Drake.Carvill/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Caesar's Civil War

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 particular article due to the fact that it is one of history's key moments that helped shape the world to what it is now. For if Julius Caesar would have been defeated there is a chance the Roman Empire never would have come to be, and it would have stayed as the Roman Republic. My first impression of the article is that it does seem to be well written.

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 of the article seems to have some good and bad points to it. It tells us at the very beginning about what the articles main topic is. However, it does not include all of the information that is later discussed in the rest of the article, it is also fairly lengthy and possibly has too much in it for the introduction.

The content in the article does seem to be of value and well written. It seems to be made up of current information and information that is directly relevant to the topic of the article. It does not deal with any of the population gaps.

The tone and balance for the article is well written as it covers all of the information from a seemingly neutral point of view just stating the facts of history as they were. The article does not deal with any oppressed or underrepresented people groups.

The sources are current and do appear to be good sources but only a couple of them are you able to actually click on while the rest you have to search up and find yourself.

The writing itself by the author is pretty well written as it is easy to follow and easy to read which also makes it fairly easy to understand what the author is saying in the article.It does include a couple of pictures but not good ones as one of the three photos does not have english writing on it which makes it much more difficult to fully understand what is going on in the picture and the information the photo is meant to display.

One of the more prevalent things being talked about in the talk page is the scope of the subject itself and due to that there is not enough information on some of the smaller things in it. One person said that it could be the subject for a doctoral thesis.

Overall i would say it is a good start for the page but it does require some work to be done on it before it is truly finished.