User:Gfc13/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
WikiProject Engineering

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I have close friends in engineering. This matters to me because everything around us in the world is engineered and I would like to be more educated on engineering topics. My preliminary impression was slightly confused. I haven't really ever used Wikipedia before nor have I ever read a WikiProject so navigating around the page is unfamiliar to me. Other than not having knowledge on Wikipedia, the WikiProject Engineering page seems to be very organized, but not much instant general information about engineering at first glance.

Evaluate the article
The lead section is right to the point and telling me what the WikiProject page is aiming to do and the contents box matches every aspect on the page itself. If someone is looking for exactly what engineering is this isn't the page they should choose come to. This page is aiming to keep the info on Wikipedia about engineering, correct and provide coverage.

In terms of content, this page doesn't cover all the general info of "engineering" but I believe that isn't the goal here. In terms of what this page is trying to do, which is to organize and get coverage on different aspects of engineering, the content for this task works well. Since this page touches on just about anything that involves engineering it does have a lot of information that users may be confused about, if they are trying to just figure out info on the different types of engineering or engineering as a whole. The good thing about the wide range is that this page can help users understand that just about everything humans interact with involves some type of engineering. The page upkeep is to date (9/8/21). Some work could be done under the "News" category that hasn't been updated since 2007.

This page does well at staying neutral. Since this page is just being used for organization there simply is no bias or persuasion on this page.

With sources and references, the page is up to date with articles and links that work but there is lack of resources that they used to build the page itself. In the "New article" section there are also some links that don't seem to relate to engineering (ie. music, art). This page uses links to university articles but I think they could find better sources out there possibly from more scholarly books.

The way this page is organized is great, but for someone who is new on Wikipedia it may be confusing or slightly overwhelming. The break down of topics and guides to different sections or pages is my favorite part about this page and very user friendly.

There are just about no images on this page. Part of me feels as if this is good because then it makes it less overwhelming, but the other part of me wants images that help guide users through the page a little easier. Images could organize this page better but there is no need for images on a WikiProject page to help better understand the topic. The links on this page will take you other places that can show images if more clarification is needed.

On the talk page there isn't much helpful info or really much talk going on at all. There are a few requests to edit, and a general info comment and that is about it. The talk page could also be organized better in order to see if any of the comments made would contribute to the greater good of the page.

This page was assessed 9/21 and has a low quality rating of "start" and the class is "NA." The article has a lot of strengths like the organization, staying neutral, and the goal of covering more aspects of engineering. This article definitely has much room for improvement like user-friendliness, relevant topic filtering, and the use of more scholarly sources. I think for a WikiProject this page is close to being well developed. Overall, this page would be better used as a directory for researching rather than using it to learn about engineering.