User:EllieBellie85/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
Name of article: Timken Museum of Art

I chose this article because of a recent visit to Balboa Park. We visited the Timken Museum of Art and I wanted to compare what I learned and experienced in the museum to what Wikipedia had to say on the museum. Balboa Park was on the C-Class list of articles and while Timken wasn't listed, I noticed that the Wikipedia page was missing a lot of information that it could have.

Lead
The article's Lead does concisely describe the article's content, maybe a little too concisely. The Lead provides the physical address and cost of admission as well as the type of museum it is. However it does not provide any information on the content or scope of the article. The Lead could use updates to give more context to the items discussed in the content.

Content
The content of the article is up to date and concise, however, there is a lot of information missing from the article. The content is timeless, but not current. There is no offering on the original items that were in the collection or when new items were acquired. There is also a short anecdote about the benefactors being related to revolutionary war heroes and that the museum acquired a painting of a woman whom may or may not have started the revolutionary war. There is no citation on the acquisition, the pieces provenance, or why the the fact about the benefactors being related to those involved in the revolutionary war is relevant to the reason this particular piece is in the collection. I am not sure that this piece of information fits into the content section.

Tone and Balance
The article is more or less neutral, as it is not a controversial or politically charged topic. However, there is a quote that is lengthy and introduces conflict and opinion into the article. There should be information on critical views of the museum if this quote is left included.

Sources and References
There are a few facts that are not backed up by a reliable source and there is so much more information out there. Not all the sources are current and a few of the links do not work.

Organization
The article is concise, clear and easy to read, but leaves me desiring more information. There article is simply organized, but there could be better sub-headings and a table of the art that was featured in the museum.

Images and Media
The images and maps are helpful to the content of the topic. I think they could be laid out better instead of just a list at the bottom of the page. I believe that they uphold WIkipedia's copyright regulations because there are not a lot of images present, however, there are a lot of links to the artist or the piece.

Checking the talk page
There hasn't been any activity on this talk page since 2017. The article is of interest to a few Wikipedia projects, which have all been rated as Start-class

Overall impressions
There is a lot that I can do to help with this article. It is a good basic jumping off point. I will have to head to some of the Wikipedia projects to see if there are any tasks relating to this article