User:Helenliska/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I choose this article because I am interested in how gender roles worked in Pompeii and thought that it would be cool to read about Pompeii through a lens of art and sex work.

Evaluate the article
Lead section:

Yes there is a lead sentence.

Yes there is a contents section.

Yes, the introduction talks about museums a lot which the rest does not.

I think it is overly detailed and off topic.

Content:

The content is at least 17 years old and the bibliography is scarce.

I think the body of the article should talk about present day museums more. Also the Venus section is only one sentence.

Yes, women and sex workers.

Tone and Balance :

The tone is neutral.

The article points out the inconsistencies in how we digest this media.

Hard to say… no?

No. They are not explicitly described.

No.

Sources :

Most things have hyperlinks to direct you to other wikipedias but not outside sources.

No. There is more recent literature

No they’re at least 16 years old.

Nope.

Yes, like daily art magazines and medium.com.

The links work.

Organization and writing quality

It is definitely concise.

Yes they are.

I believe so.

Yes, it looks nice.

Talk page discussion :

Writers are discussing adding and removing information.

The article is rated start class/ mid importance.

We haven’t discussed this yet.

Overall impressions:

Overall, I am not very impressed. I think this page is outdated and does not have a lot of information on it.

This article strengths are the photos.

This article could be improved by adding more information and citing more recent sources.

This article is under developed.