User:Henryp011/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Anglo-Saxon burial mounds

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this topic because it is interesting to me and because it is a topic that I didn't expect to have a c class article. I felt like the article was very lacking. It is very short and only has 3 sources cited. Furthermore, many of the claims made in the article don't have a foot note. This article is important because it can educate people on burial practices that still have visible impacts on the land. It can also tell us about who the Anglo Saxons were, this is important because they played such a major role in the development of the English language and it's literature. This article can also be helpful for contextualizing burial mound practices elsewhere, including in north America.

Evaluate the article
The content of this article is extremely minimal. Much more should be added. The article talks briefly about the mound burial practices of other European groups in an effort to contextualize Anglo Saxon mounds. This extra info could be helpful for the article, however since there is so little written about Anglo Saxon mounds, this information negatively effects the focus of the article.

I felt that the tone of this article remained unbiased and did not over or under represent any viewpoints. The primary problem with this article is a lack on information and content.

The links for the footnotes and citations all seem to work well. That being said, this article has a huge problem with citations. There are only three sources cited and the most recent source is from 2008. Furthermore, all of the sources are from northern Europe and were written by men. One of the sources is about old Norse burial mounds, and none of them have to do with the mounds of Celtic, Slavic, or other Germanic groups that were discussed in the article. Additionally many sentence in the article that make claims do not feature any footnotes, making them not properly cited.

There are no conversations on the talk page. This is a bad sign because it suggests that the writing of this article was not collaborative or closely checked over by another wikipedian. This article is rated as a c and is classed as low importance in the topics of death, cemeteries, and Ancient Germanic Studies and as mid importance in the topic of Anglo Saxon Kingdoms.