User:Elizaswack/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.


 * Name of article: Human ecology
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I have chosen to edit a specific article about Human Ecology because it was a subcategory for environmental studies.

Lead
The lead includes an introductory sentence that clearly describes what the article is about. The lead does not include a brief description of the articles major sections but it does have an overview farther down in the article. No the lead does not include information that is not included in the article. The lead is a bit overly detailed but it is generally understandable material.

Content
The content is relevant but much too detailed. The content is okay but all of the sources are very old and I am sure that there are much newer ones available. All of the content looks to be good. I don't know about the topic so i cannot say that anything needs to be added.

Tone and Balance
The article is pretty neutral and does not seem have any biases toward a specific position. There does seem to be information that is talked about heavily that is not very relevant to the subject. The article is not attempting to persuade.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions

Most, if not all of the facts do have reliable sources to back them up. The sources could be updated to more recent times but they do have helpful information on them still. There is a lot going on the world with this topic right now so there are plenty of relevant sources that the article can be updated with.

Organization

 * Guiding questions

It is organized very well but almost with too much detail. It makes the reader struggle to understand what is being said when there are too many details to each part. There were no grammatical errors that I could see but it is broken down and organized in a nice manner, easy to navigate.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions

Yes the article does include images but could use a lot more. The images need better captions and need to be placed differently. When more images with better captions are inserted then the article will look much better. All of the pictures do adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations.

Checking the talk page
The author himself talks a lot behind the scenes about his article but I could not find much other than him. This article is a part of five WikiProjects.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions

The overall status is okay. There is still work to be done but it is well written as it is. The article has very good details and good sentence structure. It does need to be longer and there are some facts that are still missing that would improve the article. The article is well developed but still needs work.

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