User:Fendi21/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Provide a link to the article here.) History of the telescope

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 to evaluate this article because I mainly was interested in reading about the history of the telescope. I thought that it would be great to read and learn about something while evaluating. I think the history of the telescope is important because it is a tool that many are familiar with however they do not know much about the history of it. I was really surprised learning about the history and how many different kinds of telescopes there are.

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 is very well written and easily understandable. The paragraph is straight to the point making it quite clear that the page is about the history of the telescope. It does a great job of stating what other points are featured in the wikipedia article. Everything that is mentioned in the lead is present in the article which is fantastic. I thought that the lead was perfect in that it had enough detail but was also concise and to the point.

The content present in the article is good. It is very well organized and sticks straight to what the topic. Everything on the page is related to the topic so there is no information that shouldn't be there. Aside from content, there is a neutral tone in the article. The page sticks to talking about the history and stating facts. There really isn't a point to state an opinion since it is basically about the telescope.

There is a perfect amount of images making sure each section has at least one image. There are a number of sources from a variety of different authors. The links seem to work and the sources look to be pretty solid sources.

Overall the article was very well written with great choices in images and sources. The article was great at sticking to the topic and really didn't need much improvement. However, if there was one thing that I would add it would be to include more detail as to why a telescope was invented. Readers learn about the history of the telescope but what was the reason for a telescope. In conclusion, I would say this is a pretty well developed wikipedia article.