User:Emberk8/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Le Roman de Silence

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 am interested in French culture and because I really enjoyed this romance. It matters because this is an older texts that deals with topics relevant to today such as sex and gender, gender roles and transvestism. I found it really interesting, I really enjoyed the fact that they found it in a box marked unimportant documents, I just find that funny.

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 section describes what Le Roman de Silence is and the time period it is apart of, also says who it is written by and when it was discovered, all key topics to the text. It is concise and not overly detailed.

This article discusses topics related to Le Roman de Silence and topics relevant to our current times, that have been underrepresented in previous histories. The content is relatively up to date. Something that could be added is more on Sound v Silence and how it happens throughout the novel and not just with Merlin.

The article is neutral and I think does a good job of representing everything equally, or as much as can be.

The citations need work, one of the links I clicked just brought me to a page for the University of Iowa's research library, so I think they need to be updated or corrected,others are books cited which are good.

The talk page is largely inactive. This article is apart of WikiProject Middle Ages and is also apart of WikiProject Novels and is rated as C-Class.