User:Eveshipman/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating
The House of Houdini

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because of its obscurity. I think it's important to review articles that are not necessarily top articles but still provide value.

Evaluate the article
The lead section of this article provides a concise overview of the article's topic. The lead contains an itemized list of the article's contents, allowing a reader to jump to each section quickly.

As for the content, much of it is relevant to the topic. However, a few areas seem to be "padded" with information that is not technically relevant to the topic. For instance, this article is about The House of Houdini, a museum in Budapest, Hungary, dedicated to the work and life of Harry Houdini. Despite this, the article takes a turn and discusses other Houdini museums elsewhere in the world.

It also bears mentioning that in the article, there is a part of the article that discusses Houdini's Hungarian origins, then immediately follows, without context, the word "Jewish" seems to be tossed in.

The tone of the article is neutral. Some of the citations seem to be from obscure sources like free newspaper outlets and may not be entirely credible in nature. Most of the sources are from 2017 and seem relatively current.

The writing quality is fine, for the most part. A glaring error occurs when the word "Jewish" is thrown into a sentence without indicating transition or context. Aside from that, the article moves from section to section reasonably well.

The images are of the article's topic, well captioned, and seem to adhere to copyright regulations.

This article's talk page proposed that this page merges with Harry Houdini's general Wikipedia page. The merger proposal was ultimately withdrawn. This article hasn't been very active since 2017 when I assume the original article was created.

On the whole, this article is not bad, just underdeveloped. It could use a revisit from an editor to clean up a few grammatical issues and review the sources. Any new information on the topic should also be included in the article.