User:Estebantav34/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(History of construction)

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.)

Back home, my father is a construction contractor, so it only made sense for me to evaluate this article. Looking a little bit into the history of construction was a way for me to better understand the history as well as tying It into how it has evolved with the advancement of our society. My first impression of the wikipedia page was pretty impressed with the overall layout of the page and with the information that is placed into position into the entire page.

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.)

Lead Section
As time has passed, the world has evolved and changed, and with this change so has the entire industry and making of construction in ways that leave the public in awe. The article shows the different time periods in which construction has been changed and adjusted due to the different time periods that have passed. Each time period throughout history has made its own unique impact to the construction industry using the best materials and technology of its unique time period. The most important factors throughout time have been the technology and materials used, and once technology started advancing, so did the materials basically contributing to each other to form infinite capabilities.

Content
The content is this article is relevant, giving us important specific times and dates that give us details about the different materials and tools used in each time period. They also include the way in which the overall advancement in that time influences the advancement of those tools and materials that later help encourage the change of construction. Some articles have much more information than others which can make it unbalanced. The article does seem to be a little out of date, the last update that was made to this article was about 5-6 years ago. I did not really see information that did not belong. Most of the information seems to be relevant to the topic, although there are some points that could be taken out. The article does mention the Stone Age, which could be considered underrepresented topic.

Tone and Balance
The article in some sections seems to mention one side more than the other, for example in two of the sub-articles, it tends to talk more towards the materials and tools rather than expanding on the overall architecture and structure of the building types in that era. There does not seem to be a claim or topic that seems to be appointed towards one particular position that the author decides to pick. I feel that in some of the sub-headings there tends to be a more overrepresentation of some of the topics rather than having all the topics all neutrally stand out. There does not seem to be a certain point where the author is trying to convince or persuade the reader towards one particular position.

Sources and References
The majority of sources in this article seem to be coming from a perspective that are in the primary source of the cited article, not like how wikipedia wants you to have it through the secondary source. The cited sources backup and are relevant to the information that is used in the article which helps backup the information used in that article, but some of the sources seem to be outdated with some passing the 5 year reference limit. Even though some of the cited sources have good relevant information, there are some websites that I was able to find that I feel can be used in order to better suit the article and back it up with its information, but for the most part I did not find a lot of peer reviewed links.

Organization and Writing Quality
The writing in this article was readable and was able to let the reader know the information needed in order to clearly process the information. I would not say that this article was professionally written but the article was clear enough to make a point, and let the reader learn interesting information towards the topic. The sections were spaced across the entire page well but some articles were much longer than others, some containing information that was not necessarily useful.

Images and Media
Across the entire page there are pictures that correspond with the section that it is placed next to, while the grammar in those captions can be enhanced to help detail what is going on in the exact photo. Most of the photos used in the article are publicly placed photos that do not need a citation, while the photos that are not publicly owned have their corresponding photo. For the most part, the majority of the photos are placed on the right side of the page, which is not really a big deal, but they can be placed better.

Talk page discussion
In the talk page link of the article a lot of the discussions are focused on the overall cleanup of the article. Some referencing how the article should clean up the grammar in order to make a clear and concise reading for the reader. One other comment was how the article is not balanced well enough and some sections are overrepresented when compared to the rest of the reading. I did not see that the article was connected to any Wiki projects, and wikipedia states the details that need to be altered in the overall entire reading.

Overall impressions
The overall status of the page stands at a level 5 vital article in history or better described as a C-Class. Some of the articles strengths include the architecture section of the entire article, it has good information that helps the reader understand and learn. Some ways that the article can be improved are by clearing up some of the sentences and overall grammar of the article. A couple of other suggestions would be to balance the information across the entire page, evening out some of sections so that the reader can have a balanced set of information and one portion won't be overrepresented over others. The last suggestion that I would give would be to organize the sections in hierarchical order because of its historic events, you must organize them by date.