User:Fadude/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
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Principles of Islamic jurisprudence

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
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I chose it since I was familiar with the topic and I was curious to see how effective the lead section was at summarizing the topic and to see the quality of the content sections. This topic matters since it is essential to the behavior and mannerisms of every Muslim, as well as general Islamic law.

Evaluate the article
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The lead section does a very good job at being concise and clear about the topic, as well as previewing information the content of the article will contain, without being too long or extra in wordiness. The first sentence is a clear generalization of the entire topic, and one can gather what the article will be about straight away. The content of the article is very well done, as each section is split relatively and each subsections are about the same length. Every subsection has relevant information that is all sourced surprisingly well, given the depth of a topic like this. It sources books my major Muslim authors, philosophers, and historians, allowing for a load of content to be used in every subsection efficiently. Every subsection is relevant to the overall section it is in, and consequently makes each section informative and easy to understand. The content also brings a lot of nuance in the sense that it discusses multiple viewpoints while being completely neutral about it as well. The tone is completely objective and tells every fact as it is without trying to overexaggerate or undersell the relevancy or influence of particular facts and subsections. There are only a few images but each one is competently placed in the section it is relevant to and supports what the section is trying to say, such as the section about the different schools and the map of the influence of the schools worldwide. The talk page was very interesting to go through, as there were many suggestions to add and remove content, and to even make some of the content its own article, as one user said that a particular topic was discussed in thousands of books over the years and a simple section in a general article would not do it justice. The biggest strength that the article has is the depth of the content covered and the efficiency in which it covers it. It's very difficult to really find anything wrong with the article, as it is just extremely well written and done very thoroughly. The only thing I could suggest is to go a bit more in depth with some of the topics, but it may cause the article to become too long or cause some sections to overshadow others in terms of relevancy.