User:Harnieri/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Legal history

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because as a law student I think it can be helpful to understand legal history. Legal history is very important because it shows how civilization has evolved and will give you a better understanding of why we have the legal system that we do today and where it came from. I thought the article was very informative and very well organized.

Evaluate the article

 * I believe the lead section could use some work. But it does do a good job at being concise and the introduction sentence is well formulated. It clearly and concisely explains what the article is about. I think the lead section is missing a brief description of the article's major sections.
 * The content is the article is all relevant to the topic of legal history and is up to date. It does a good job of separating each area's legal history to better understand the history of each group. I think there could be a bit more information relating to the United States legal history. I believe each section is concise and could use a bit more detail
 * The article does a good job at using a neutral point of view. The article is written in a very fact based tone.
 * The links in the references all work and support the claims in the article. The information comes from sources that appear to be credible and neutral, explaining history. These are not sources from blogs or other biased articles, rather they all come from educational books and journals. But I think that many of the claims in the article are missing citations. There is a variety of different authors and publications.
 * The article is rated as Start-Class. The article is apart of WikiProject Law. People on the talk page seem to believe there is a lot of information missing and the sections are not tied together very well. The talk page believes there needs to be an overhaul of the page.