User:Hiker103/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Hacker ethic

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because it is an unfamiliar concept to me and I was surprised to learn that there were ethics associated with hacker activities. Hacker ethics matters because it would help to understand the mindset of hackers to learn why they do what they do and how it impacts society. My preliminary impression of the article was that it is relatively short in length, there are no helpful images in the article to further illustrate a point and had only a few references.

Evaluate the article
For the lead section, the introductory sentence of the article is vague and could have been described in more detail. The lead does not include a brief description of the article's major sections. The lead includes information that is not present in the article such as mentioning how hacker ethic is related to political theories of anti-authoritarianism, socialism, liberalism, anarchism and libertarianism.

For the content, the history section could have examined the history and significance of the concept of free information for all to share. It seems to focus only on who coined the term and it origins at MIT.

For the sources and references, there aren't a significant number of them which leads me to believe that the writing so far isn't fully fleshed out. There could be more academic journals referenced as well.

The writing is organized into sections which makes it easy to follow. The tone of the article is neutral which is how it should be.

The article strengths include the in-depth discussion on the hacker ethics as described by Lecky. The section at the end about Pekka Himanen promoting the hacker ethic is well-written and fits well with the rest of the article. The article can be improved by adding more detail to the content and potentially adding an image or two to further illustrate points from the content.