User:Fegraham/Evaluate an Article

Lead Section

The lead section includes a topic sentence that clearly describes what the author is going to be talking about in their article. It also gives a link to another article about a dragon boat festival if the reader wanted more information or reference to what they are talking about. The lead section also gives the audience a clear understanding of what the author is going to discuss in the article about Dragon Boating. There is no information in the lead section that is not present in the article and it could've been more concise as it had too many details regarding the sports history.

Content

The articles content is related to the topic and is detailed. I believe that the content is up to date. I believe that some of the history content that the author has in the article does not need to be in the article at all, I thought that there wasn't any meaning for it to have it in the article.

Tone and Balance

The article is very neutral, there is no bias and the article is persuade in a very positive way to show the care and traditional that the sport carries and how it is a good thing. The viewpoints that the author has in their article is very accurate, I thought they explained their viewpoints very well and gave a very good description of the sport and the boats.

Sources and References

The article is backed up by reliable sources of information and the sources are relative to the topic information that they mention in the article. The sources are current. The sources links do work. I don't think that there could be any articles/sources that could be better.

Organization and Writing Quality

The writing is very clear and concise that allows the audience to easily read it. The article has little to no grammar issues or spelling errors. The organization of the article is very broken down into the sections the author wanted to speak about. the divided sections does reflect the major points of the sport and the history of the sport to which it covered all the aspects.

Images and Media

The images that the author chosen allows better understanding of the what the author is talking about and is very relevant to the points that they make. All images are well-captioned and adhere to wiki's copyright regulations. The images are laid out in an appealing way to the audience and are placed in the proper sections to relate to what the author is talking about.

Talk Page Discussion

There is a variety of different conversations about this article page, I believe three main conversations is how the author did not split the article in terms of the actual sport itself 'dragon boating' from the festival, specifically this festival in particular: Tuen Ng / Duan Wu/ Dragon Boat Festival. Another conversation that was created was how the boat was made, the author spends a lot of time on the tradition and the number of people that are allowed on the boat, but no diagrams, materials, or where to even buy a boat itself. The last conversation that was going on is other festivals in America and around the world other than East Asia and China. The article itself is part of 5 different Wikiprojects related to East Asia, China, Hong Kong, Canoeing and Kayaking sports, and Water sports. The wikipedia website talks about it as if it is ancient and not a lot of people do the actual sport, compared to if we talked about it in class that we know at least one or more have heard it or at least participated in an actual event.

Overall Impression

The articles strength is the history of the actual sport from various parts of the world, it really brings light in how it is a sport team and brings a sense of community and tradition. The overall status of the article is the tradition and the aspect of the sport, I think it could've focused more on specifics on the boat itself and how they were created and what people used them fore before the sport came to be. I believe that the article was underdeveloped, it lacked certain information about the boats materials. The article can be improved by not focusing so much on the history of the sport but the festivals and how they are more of a tradition to the sport itself.