User:GK2000GK/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Encyclopedia

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
This article is relevant to the course material in my current English course.

Evaluate the article
Content

The content that was mentioned all seems to be relevant to the articles main subject. However, I think there is definitely room for expansion in all the sections listed. Given the reading we completed this past week in class, I felt that this article lacked a lot of the historical context regarding encyclopedias and would certainly benefit from added historical context. It may also be relevant to add a section how encyclopedias are compiled, who creates them, and what it takes to be contribute to a work of this nature.

I do however appreciate the inclusion of a section that distinguishes the encyclopedia from the dictionary; I think this was important and helpful to anyone who may be looking at this specific article.

Tone

I believe the article takes a neutral tone for many of the sections. I noticed on the Talk page that someone had stated that the section titled 21st Century did not meet WP's style guide because of the slightly biased tone. I believe this matter was fixed but I think it is important to keep an eye out for mistakes such as this in the future.

Sources

Many of the citations are quite old. I believe I only saw one article cited from 2017 with the rest being from 2010 or prior. It may be helpful to cite more recent articles like the one we had read in class. Otherwise, the citations were certainly relevant to the content.