User:Hanpearce/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
women in combat

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I am a woman that may be seeing combat.

This is a big movement in the right direction for equal opportunity in the military.

It was a decent article that gave information that seems to cover all angles of the topic

Evaluate the article.
Lead :

the lead is concise however it is not very clear on what the article is about.

a brief explanation is pushing it, it gives you a couple words about what it talked about in the article and and it doesn't talk about everything covered in the article

overall, the lead needs to be updated

Content :

the content is not completely up to date, but it is better than I expected

most of the content is relevant

most of the content talks about the US and only briefly discusses other countries, however they do talk about them

Tone and Balance :

this article seems to be pretty neutral

the topic being discussed does bring up unreasonable conflicts for some, but the editors of this article keep their opinions of the topic to themselves

the article discusses the opposite viewpoint fairly well and addresses concerns that people have

Sources and References : links do not seem to be up to date or do not take you to information or take you to news articles you have to pay for

links definitely need to be updated, not all but most

Organized and Writing quality :

this article seems very organized

it is easy to find the different topics within this topic

the headers make it very easy to find information

Images and Media :

the images are laid out in a visually appealing way

the images also fit the topic and add to the quality of reading

the images are very well captioned

Talk Page discussion :

the conversations are detailed and are put in a way to improve the article

the talk page edit are old and it appears that most of the edit suggested were looked into and added if viable

it is a part of wiki project military history

and wiki project feminism

Overall Impressions:

the article needs to be updated as the current status of the topic changes

the article seems to well-develop otherwise

the main strengths of this article is that it politically correct